[Air-l] Legitimacy of E-Health Medical Information
Aryne Blumklotz
ablumklotz at facct.org
Mon Apr 22 17:00:52 PDT 2002
Gary Schwitzer will be speaking about online health communication tools
at The Foundation for Accountability's (FACCT) Annual Briefing on
consumer-centered health care. For more information e-mail me or check
out our website at www.facct.org!
Aryne Blumklotz
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suzie Allard [SMTP:slalla0 at uky.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:46 PM
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Legitimacy of E-Health Medical Information
>
> > Has anybody researched the area of legitimacy of medical information
> in
> > online healthcare support communities?
>
> At U of Kentucky, we just held our biennial Kentucky Conference on
> Health
> Communication and this year's theme was "Trends and Issues in Cancer
> Communication". The top student paper addressed some of your
> questions.
> The paper was "Knowledge is Power: Information Seeking of Internet
> Cancer
> Support Group Members" authored by Tamar Ginossar from the University
> of New
> Mexico.
>
> The other person who may have some information for you is Dr. Gary
> Schwitzer
> at the University of Minnesota. He has expertise in online patient
> decision-making tools and when he and I talked he mentioned other
> types of
> online support communities.
>
> Additionally, our college dean here at UK, Dr. J. David Johnson, has
> done
> extensive work on cancer-related information seeking and how people
> find
> information and how valuable that information is.
>
> Also, perhaps some of the links at the National Cancer Institute's
> health
> comm site might be useful too --
> http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/hcirb/resources.html
>
> If you would like more contact information, please feel free to reach
> me
> off-list.
>
> regards,
> Suzie
>
>
> ************************************************************
> Suzie Allard, KY Opportunity Fellow
> University of Kentucky (859)257-3771
> College of Communications and Information Studies
> 520 King Library South, Lexington, KY 40506-0039
> e-mail: slalla0 at uky.edu
> homepage: http://sweb.uky.edu/~slalla0/
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