title: Healthy Harlem: empowering health consumers through social networking, tailoring and web 2.0 technologies.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Sharib A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Delano J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: McFarlane
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jessica S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Ancker
authors.forename: Carly
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hutchinson
authors.forename: Alwyn
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cohall
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kukafka
mesh_terms: D054626:Consumer Health Information; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet; D009519:New York City; D012944:Social Support