[Air-L] the role of new media in reducing health care cost?

[Ronald E. Rice]

Two edited books that include chapters speaking to a wide variety of 
potential benefits -- and disadvantages -- of online health information and 
health care.  Tables of contents of both are available at:
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/faculty/rrice/B10.htm
and
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/faculty/rrice/B6.htm
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Ronald E. Rice
Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media
President of the International Communication Association 2006-2007
Dept. of  Communication, 4840 Ellison Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102
rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/rice.php
http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mariana Goya" <mgoyam at yahoo.com>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-L] the role of new media in reducing health care cost?


> More than reducing health cost, it seems to me that internet is certainly 
> giving (or can give)
> more agency to patients in their health issues. The information that can 
> be found online goes
> from medical information and advice given by medical institutions (mayo 
> clinic, for instance),
> published research papers, patients' recommendations of doctors (as in 
> yelp), and patients
> exchange of medical advice and symptoms as well as empathic feelings. An 
> informed patient surely
> has more resources to make decisions related to her health and to make 
> better questions to the
> doctor or even suggesting specific treatments or medicines.
>
> This access to medical information is especially important in the US where 
> getting easy/fast access
> to doctors is not always possible.
>
>
>
> --- On Mon,
> 2/23/09, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org> 
> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:37:11 -0500
> From: Yifeng Hu <hu at tcnj.edu>
> Subject: [Air-L] the role of new media in reducing health care cost?
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for articles/thoughts about whether new media can play a
> role in reducing health care cost. Any perspectives are welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yifeng**
>
> -- 
> Yifeng Hu, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Communication Studies
> Kendall Hall 244
> The College of New Jersey
> 2000 Pennington Rd.
> Ewing, NJ 08628
> Telephone: 609-771-2373
> Fax: 609-637-5187
> Email: hu at tcnj.edu
> Homepage: http://www.tcnj.edu/~hu/
>
>
> Mariana Goya-Martinez
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>
>
>
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