The Internet has surpassed physicians as the leading source of health information. With the advent of the social web, Health 2.0 is emerging as a strong segment with 34% of consumers using social resources such as blogs and forums to locate health information. Yet information overload leads to “search engine fatigue” that discourages users.
We advocate a consumer-centric approach to healthcare information access that increases engagement and improves health literacy. Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques can be used to support human effort, creating a new generation of “intelligent web” technologies. These technologies can combine the benefits of the “information web” (timely, relevant health information) with those of the “social web” (human interaction, support, comfort). Our vision is to promote well-being and prevention before illness, support and information during illness, and comfort to family and friends in a natural, social, yet private manner.
Invited talk at Humana Innovation Conference: Connect, Collaborate, Create (C3), Louisville, KY, September 23, 2011.
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Posted by Debbie Barker on March 6, 2012 at 10:25 am
Promoting wellness and health prior to illness is essential to an ultimately healthy community. It’s much harder to bounce back from obesity and other health related maladies than to maintain a healthy lifestyle from the beginning. The purpose of my blog is to help educate the population about health and wellness, so they can make better (and more practical) lifestyle decisions from the start.