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Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics

by | Sep 29, 2008

The Pew Internet Project will conduct a national telephone survey this fall about the internet’s impact on health and health care. One of the first tasks is to look at our tried and true “trend” questions and decide which ones we should repeat as is...

Safety Net Populations

by | Sep 8, 2008

I recently spoke at a workshop entitled Patient Online Access in the Safety Net. (Check out these related posts.) Click image to view full size original. The organizers, Ted Eytan and Veenu Aulakh, asked me to create a participatory presentation, which definitely...

Health System Change: Collaborative Researchers

by | Aug 26, 2008

Ha Tu and Genna Cohen of the Center for Studying Health System Change released their latest report on how Americans gather health information (HTML report; news release). I met with them in June and learned a bit more about how they approached this massive data set...

Latinos’ sources of health information

by | Aug 13, 2008

The Pew Hispanic Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report today that is required reading for anyone interested in a more nuanced picture of the e-patient population: “Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and...

New e-patient population estimate

by | Aug 1, 2008

The Pew Internet Project released the latest estimate for the e-patient population: 75% of internet users. Details on this and an upcoming survey follow… My colleagues recently updated our top three trend charts: Who’s Online, Internet Activities, and...

Data and Insights on Minority Populations

by | Jun 19, 2008

The Pew Internet Project’s sample sizes for health surveys have been too small to do in-depth analysis on race/ethnicity and economic status. One challenge is that a significant portion of the respondent pool refuses to answer the household income question (the...

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