The internet is becoming the go-to solution for almost everything. People use the internet for a news source, for communicating, for research, for entertainment, and now more and more people are using the web to look up health information. According to the first National Health Interview Survey, in one year a little over half of U.S. adults used the internet to look up health information.
The study involved 7, 192 people and measured their use of health information technology. “CDC researchers asked when participants had used a computer to store, retrieve, share, or use healthcare information to make decisions and communicate, to conduct research, and to communicate with healthcare and prescription providers and engage in other forms of Internet dialog,” reports Cole Petrochko from MedPage Today. 18 to 49-year-olds were more likely than older adults to use health information technology, and women were more likely than men to use the internet to look up health information.
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