Healthy Harlem: empowering health consumers through social networking, tailoring and web 2.0 technologies.
Consumer health informatics has emerged as a strategy to inform and empower patients for self management of their health. The emergence of and explosion in use of user-generated online media (e.g.,blogs) has created new opportunities to inform and educate people about healthy living. Under a prevention research project, we are developing a website that utilizes social content collaboration mediums in conjunction with open-source technologies to create a community-driven resource that provides users with tailored health information.
Khan
Sharib A
SA
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
McFarlane
Delano J
DJ
Li
Jianhua
J
Ancker
Jessica S
JS
Hutchinson
Carly
C
Cohall
Alwyn
A
Kukafka
Rita
R
D054626:Consumer Health Information; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet; D009519:New York City; D012944:Social Support