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How We Die

by | Dec 4, 2008

This is what I know about death. Admitted to a nursing home with a broken hip-dehydration, my ninety-eight-year-old grandmother awoke from a deep slumber, laughing and clapping her hands when my five-year-old daughter played the violin. A week later she had a stroke...

Go online. Not too much. Mostly…?

by | Feb 12, 2008

Michael Pollan’s answer to diet angst is to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Is there an equivalent maxim for information angst? If not, does someone out there want to make one up? Because a new study published in Cancer argues that e-patients can take a...

E-health Reality Check

by | Jan 14, 2008

Press coverage of the Pew Internet Project’s recent report, “Information Searches That Solve Problems,” focused on how “libraries still matter” especially among young people. One aspect that I think merits further attention is how people...

Open Internet vs. Closed Doctor-Directed Systems

by | Oct 11, 2007

This morning’s NPR story, “Patients Turn to the Internet for Health Information,” featured data from my e-patients report, but also some research that has been conducted at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) at the University...

E-patients With Chronic Conditions

by | Oct 9, 2007

Sometimes my research becomes a little too much for me to bear alone. Like when I find that people living with chronic disease and disability are among the least likely to have access to the internet, but who, once online, are among the most avid e-patients. Or when I...

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