{"id":95,"date":"2008-03-06T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T15:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.9.147.40\/archives\/2008\/03\/recruit-doctors-let-e-patients-lead-go-mobile.html"},"modified":"2008-03-06T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T15:14:41","slug":"recruit-doctors-let-e-patients-lead-go-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2008\/03\/recruit-doctors-let-e-patients-lead-go-mobile.html","title":{"rendered":"Recruit doctors. Let e-patients lead. Go mobile."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Health 2.0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health2con.com\/sandiego.html\">conference <\/a>was an opportunity to learn about an amazing array of emerging technologies and, for me, to connect them to a bigger vision of what&#8217;s happened and what&#8217;s next. Here is the text of my remarks, annotated with as many links as I can (in case you want to dig deeper):<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/\">Pew Internet Project<\/a> studies the social impact of the internet. We began <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/11\/report_display.asp\">tracking online life<\/a> in March 2000, which turned out to be just at the tail end of the first dot-com bubble. After the market crash, there were quite a few people on the internet sidelines who were eager to say \u201cI told you so\u201d and warn people against the dangers of the internet.  My favorite example is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-patients.net\/AMA_Dec2001.pdf\">2001 press release<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/\">American Medical Association<\/a> suggesting that Americans make a New Year\u2019s resolution to \u201ctrust your physician, not a chat room\u201d since the information found online puts \u201clives at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course most people ignored that advice and flocked online for health information, just as they ignored the advice of the recording industry and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/report_display.asp?r=23\">flocked <\/a>to music downloading sites.  When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/190\/report_display.asp\">80%<\/a> of internet users are doing something, the horse is out of the barn.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMy research has focused on the internet\u2019s impact on health and health care, particularly the group of internet users who gather and share health information online.  We have come to call them \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/222\/report_display.asp\">e-patients<\/a>\u201d and \u201ce-caregivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>E-patients have always been at the center of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/26\/report_display.asp\">revolution<\/a>, marching forward with or without the help of industry leaders. They are the worried well using search engines to look up basic advice. They are the chronically ill using discussion forums to trade in-depth knowledge. Or as one e-patient wrote in one of our online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/95\/report_display.asp\">surveys<\/a>, \u201cwe are lab rats tapping out messages on the bars of our cages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s give the AMA some credit.  Inaccurate and outdated medical information does exist online. Our surveys find that the internet\u2019s fire hose of information can be overwhelming and confusing, particularly for people with a high school education or less, which represents about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/population\/www\/socdemo\/education\/cps2007.html\">40%<\/a> of American adults.  But there may yet be some hope.<\/p>\n<p>You may have heard about Michael Pollan\u2019s new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelpollan.com\/indefense.php\">In Defense of Food<\/a><\/em>.  His answer to all our diet worries is summed up in seven words:<\/p>\n<p><em>Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You may also have seen <em>The New York Times<\/em>\u2019 Seven-Word Wisdom <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/17\/seven-word-wisdom-the-contest\/\">contest <\/a>on Tara Parker-Pope\u2019s blog. Here are my favorite entries:<\/p>\n<p><em>Eat pie. Very good pie. Not often.<\/p>\n<p>Call Mom. Let her talk. Don\u2019t argue.<\/p>\n<p>Make promises. Don\u2019t break them. Find loopholes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have been wondering if there is equivalent wisdom for our \u201cinformation worries,\u201d a filter for that fire hose of data &#038; advice, imagery &#038; sound.  In health care especially people are under stress and need to process a lot of complex information. How can people possibly find the good stuff?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlanet.org\/resources\/userguide.html\">Medical librarians<\/a> say people should check the source and date of the health information they find online.  But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.gov\/communication\/healthypeople\/obj1104\/default.htm\">few sites<\/a> display those quality markers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/190\/report_display.asp\">few e-patients<\/a> look for them. Displaying the source and date is of course a special problem for Health 2.0 and the e-patients who want to share their knowledge or are looking for someone ahead of them on the treatment path, that \u201cjust in time someone like me\u201d who can really make a difference. Health 2.0 is <u>not <\/u>a traditional information source.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/cgi-bin\/abstract\/117908535\/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&#038;SRETRY=0\">study <\/a>published in the journal Cancer recently confirmed what Josh Seidman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ixcenter.org\/\">Center for Information Therapy<\/a> has also written about:  the display of the source and date on a page is <u>not correlated<\/u> with the presence of high-quality information. The <u>absence <\/u>of those two markers is also not correlated with low-quality information. The one marker for inaccuracy found in the Cancer study was the presence of information about complementary and alternative medicine or CAM. CAM pages were 15 times more likely than other pages to contain inaccurate information.  Going back to the Seven-Word Wisdom contest, the Cancer article might be summarized as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em>Go online. Use common sense. Be skeptical.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That might resonate with people who say we should trust users to find the good stuff and ignore the bad stuff. Indeed, our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/topics.asp?c=5\">surveys <\/a>show that this ad hoc system has worked pretty well.  About one-third of e-patients say they or someone they know has been significantly helped by following medical advice or health information found on the internet. Just 3% of e-patients say they or someone they know has been seriously harmed by following the advice or information they found online. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmir.org\/2005\/2\/e21\/HTML\">Reviews <\/a>of the medical literature have also turned up very few cases of bad outcomes related to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t you think it\u2019s time for health care to take things to the next level?  My friend Charlie Smith of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edocamerica.com\/\">eDocAmerica<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-patients.net\/archives\/2008\/02\/go_online_not_t.html#comments\">written <\/a>about the \u201cspace in between &#8220;doctor knows best&#8221; and &#8220;leave the e-patient alone&#8221; and that is a high quality, interactive partnership between physicians and their e-patients. Engaging large numbers of providers in the world of online communication with and between patients about health issues is the best way, according to Charlie Smith and many people in this room, to craft a new model of higher quality medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Health 2.0 tools can facilitate that world of online communication.<\/p>\n<p>Since you are here at the patient-centered Health 2.0 conferences you are probably not making the classic mistake of creating tools and systems that don\u2019t place users at the center. Ask yourselves and your colleagues what Diana Forsythe asked in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/book.cgi?book_id=%204203%20\">Studying Those Who Study Us<\/a><\/em>:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nWhose assumptions and whose point of view are inscribed in the design of this tool?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be the AMA circa 2001 or the recording industry, clinging to your own notions of what should be. <strong>Design for what could be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When health care does move to the next level, can we be sure it\u2019s not leaving some people behind? Pew Internet Project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/223\/presentation_display.asp\">research <\/a>shows that the base of the internet is broadening.  Where we once saw an internet population dominated by college-educated adults, we now see many people with a high school education or less going online. People with less education have lower levels of <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubsearch\/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006483\">health literacy<\/a> and numeracy \u2013 basic reading and math \u2013 which is a <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/292\/14\/1711\">big deal<\/a> when you are managing diabetes, for example. People with less education are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eszter.com\/research\/\">less confident navigators<\/a> of the online world.<\/p>\n<p>The Pew Internet Project\u2019s current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/trends\/User_Demo_2.15.08.htm\">estimate <\/a>is that about 75% of adults and 95% of teenagers in the U.S. go online. Half of American adults have broadband access at home. 75% of American adults have a cell phone and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/244\/report_display.asp\">many <\/a>are using their cell phones to connect to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>To unpack that further, my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/a\/105\/about_staffer.asp\">John Horrigan<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/213\/report_display.asp\">sorted <\/a>American adults into three broad categories related to which technology assets they own, what actions they take with those gadgets, and the attitudes they express toward information and communications technology.<\/p>\n<p>For example, how many people in this room agree with the following statements:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tI like that cell phones and other mobile devices allow me to be more available to others<br \/>\n\u2022\tWhen I get a new electronic device, I usually need someone else to set it up or show me how to use it<br \/>\n\u2022\tI often feel annoyed by having to respond to intrusions from my electronic devices<br \/>\n\u2022\tI believe I am more productive because of all of my electronic devices<\/p>\n<p>When you hear the phrase \u201c2.0\u201d you are hearing about an online world that is familiar to what we call the \u201cElite Tech Users,\u201d who make up one-third of all adults. They have lots of gadgets and they like them. For them, the internet has changed from being slow and stationary to being fast and mobile. Elites don\u2019t just surf through the online world, they shape it.<\/p>\n<p>An early example of participatory medicine is the Association of Cancer Online Resources or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acor.org\/\">ACOR.org<\/a>, which is a collection of listserves, going strong since 1995. Participants say they gain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15166387\">knowledge <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmir.org\/2007\/2\/e12\">support <\/a>that they can\u2019t get elsewhere. But a University of North Carolina study of the group revealed its membership to be 98% white, 86% college-educated. The UNC researchers convened a meeting to discuss the \u201cwhiteness\u201d of online health communities, and some of the reasons put forward for low participation among African Americans included:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\tunfamiliarity with computers and even basic keyboard skills, especially among seniors<br \/>\n&#8211;\trules against the discussion of God and faith<br \/>\n&#8211;\thistorical distrust of doctors and medicine (memories of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tuskegee\/timeline.htm\">Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment<\/a> are fading in the younger generations, but are still present)<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/189\/report_display.asp\">Web 2.0<\/a> is not familiar ground for the majority of the U.S population. Many people could benefit from resources made possible by the participatory internet, but they may not have the skills, the need, or the desire to do so. How will these people fare when the best health care is available only to those who are willing to expand beyond traditional health information sources like doctor\u2019s appointments and print media?  How will Health 2.0 attract and serve the majority, not just the elite?<\/p>\n<p>I have one answer for that question, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/245\/report_display.asp\">new data<\/a> coming out this week which shows how African American and Latino adults are more attached to their cell phones than to the internet, to TV, or to landlines.  Reaching people through their mobile devices could be \u2013 maybe \u2013 a way to expand the Health 2.0 population.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of Michael Pollan\u2019s diet wisdom: If we wrap up all we have observed over the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.the-eg.com\/2007\/12\/04\/kevin-kelly\/\">first 5,000 days<\/a> of the Web and mix it with the wisdom of medical professionals and e-patients, then add a dash of the next big technological wave, we may get an answer to our information worries. Here is my Seven-Word Challenge for Health 2.0:<\/p>\n<p><em>Recruit doctors. Let e-patients lead. 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