{"id":1580,"date":"2012-12-12T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mericjohnson.tuck.dartmouth.edu\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:12:25","slug":"on-line-health-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/on-line-health-information\/","title":{"rendered":"On-line Health Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an amazing statistic.\u00a0 This fall I have been teaching a class on Health IT in Dartmouth\u2019s new Masters of Healthcare Delivery Science program.\u00a0 The students are mid-career healthcare professionals.\u00a0 We had a fascinating discussion about where patients look on-line for health information.\u00a0 \u00a0Many of the practicing doctors mentioned specialized health websites.\u00a0 NPR is running a story today on the challenges facing WebMD \u2013 but buried inside the article, we learn the real story is Facebook.\u00a0 Here is the quote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, National Research, a health care data firm, reported that 96 percent of almost 23,000 consumers it surveyed said they use Facebook &#8212; that&#8217;s right, Facebook &#8212; to find information about health care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/business\/fiscal-cliff-webmd-hit-patent-cliff\">http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/business\/fiscal-cliff-webmd-hit-patent-cliff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the new world of social media!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an amazing statistic.\u00a0 This fall I have been teaching a class on Health IT in Dartmouth\u2019s new Masters of Healthcare Delivery Science program.\u00a0 The students are mid-career healthcare professionals.\u00a0 We had a fascinating discussion about where patients look on-line for health information.\u00a0 \u00a0Many of the practicing doctors mentioned specialized health websites.\u00a0 NPR is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":1588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[47,62],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized","tag-health-care","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}