title: An online consumer health information resource: 3-year usage summary.
abstract: Partners Health Online is a portal to a broad set of consumer health information. As such, the site allows public access to health and disease information as well as Partners-specific information resources (e.g., departments, physicians, clinical trials, classes, support groups). Partners Health Online licenses its health care articles from Healthwise, Inc. This poster describes patterns of activity at Health Online over a 3-year period. The data were analyzed in terms of traffic patterns, visitor characteristics, and information-seeking behavior.
authors.affiliation: Information Systems, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Karen E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Burk
authors.forename: Martha T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Cheryl A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Reilly
authors.forename: Gilad J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Kuperman
mesh_terms: D006266:Health Education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020407:Internet; D009862:Online Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*