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With the large number of Internet sources available for health care information, finding appropriate sources can be difficult for patients. Medical-surgical nurses can guide patients to credible sites with reliable information about specific conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Suggestions for evaluation of health care sites are included., Millions of people use the Internet each day. In its report Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, the Institute of Medicine recommended that health education and health promotion programs [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2014 M2 COMMUNICATIONS National Decision Support Company said that ACR Select is accessed more than 200,000 times per month by healthcare providers when placing orders for imaging exams. [...]

People in the United States with chronic conditions or rare diseases are turning to family, friends, and other patients online for support, but when seeking advice from health professionals they're [...]

Data mining: Searching for health information has become the third most popular online activity among United States Internet users, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center and [...]

HEALTHCARE consumers and purchasers finally are getting what they've wanted for years: online information about health plans and hospitals. But is it data they need and can use to make […]

We heard from 49 bloggers. Half said a Google search was among their top three 'first stops' on any voyage to general information; 31% rely on the Society's Web site [...]

More than half (51%) of adults aged 18-64 years use the Internet to look up health information over the course of a year, but only a handful communicate with their [...]

MULTIMEDIA diabetes network dLife said total visits to its website crossed the one-million mark for the month of November. The milestone represents a 35% increase versus November 2008 in visits [...]

* Since 2005, the number of patients using the Internet to research prescription drug information has doubled to 102.3 million, according to a new study from Manhattan Research. The number [...]

When young people have health questions, where do they turn to? Increasingly, the Internet. A recent study found that more than half of people ages 13 to 24 go online [...]

VISITORS TO THE HealthCentral network of websites were more likely to request prescription drugs from their physicians than were visitors to competing sites, such as WebMD and Everyday Health, a [...]

FEELING THE COMPETITION?: More Americans than ever-113 million adults, according to a 2006 study by the Pew Internet & American Lite Project-look online for health information. But a Kaiser Family [...]

Eight out of every 10 people that use the internet go online for health information and most of these people start with a search engine. This represents 113 million adults [...]

The number of Americans who look to cyberspace for answers to medical questions is climbing, says a report from the Rochester, N.Y.-based market research firm Harris Interactive. It states 117 […]

More than 60 percent of 4,300 consumers searched for information to help them make treatment decisions in the last 12 months, with about one-third saying the information they found affected [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Not many patients are e-mailing their physicians, and of those who do, the majority click "send" less than once a month, an online survey of 1,881 people [...]

Majority Seek Health Information Online % of all adults with Internet access 69% % of all adults who have ever sought health information online 51 % of adults who sought [...]