The digital divide in health education: myth or reality?
ABSTRACT Although e-health interventions provide new opportunities for health education, there has been cause for concern regarding the purported information technology gap between those who have access to digital applications and those who do not--termed the "digital divide." The literature suggests, however, that this divide may now...

WebMD Announces Next-Generation Consumer Health Portal.
WebMD Provides Free Personal Health Record for Every American Portal Delivers New Levels of Personalization, Information, Community & Care NEW YORK, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WebMD Health Corp. today announced the next generation of its leading consumer health information portal, together with free, widespread access...

The financial burden of overweight and obesity among elderly Americans: the dynamics of weight, longevity, and health care cost.
Approximately 35 percent of U.S. adults are overweight, and an additional 30 percent are obese (Flegal et al. 2002, 2004; Hedley et al. 2004). The increase in rates of overweight and obesity represents a major change in the biological and behavioral characteristics of the U.S. population, and has become...

Who searches the Internet for health information?
Consumers are increasingly turning to the Internet to obtain information about health and health care. Internet use has grown dramatically over the last decade (Pew Research Center 2005) and searching for health information is an important application for many users (Fox et al. 2000; Baker, Wagner et al. 2003;...

Ten lessons for developing a health information website.
Abstract This paper outlines ten lessons derived from the development of a palliative care website, www.pallcarevic.asn.au. The following program elements contributed to the success of the project: (1) peer and stakeholder participation; (2) response to a significant need; (3) networking skills; (4) administrative skills; (5) mediation of...

Essential nursing resources: for the Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN).
THE 24TH EDITION of the ICIRN Essential Nursing Resources list (formerly Essential Nursing References) is presented as a resource for locating nursing information and for collection development. The list includes print, multimedia, and electronic sources to support nursing practice, education, administration, and research activities. The most recent editions or...

How to sort health facts from fiction on the Web.
It's Saturday night. You suddenly feel a stabbing pain in your big toe. You wonder, "Could it be serious?" So you do what 80 percent of American Internet users do--you run to the computer and type "big toe pain" into a search engine. You get 346,000 results. One site...

The Internet: friend or foe when providing patient education?
The Internet has changed how patients with cancer learn about and cope with their disease. Newly diagnosed patients with cancer often have complex educational and informational needs related to diagnosis and treatment. Nurses frequently encounter time and work-related constraints that can interfere with the provision of patient education. They...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Offers Health Care Research Tools in Spanish.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- With Florida's population growing more diverse, the ability to communicate with people from different cultures is an important part of serving customers. As a result, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) is now offering Subimo's Healthcare Advisor(SM), Physician Selection Advisor(SM) and...

Magellan Health Services and Healthwise Team for New Behavior Change Tools.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-10 October 2008-Magellan Health Services and Healthwise Team for New Behavior Change Tools(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Magellan Health Services, a specialty health care management organization, and Healthwise, a provider of consumer health information, are teaming to offer Healthwise's Information Therapy (Ix) Conversations behavior...