Conference Topic Areas
Consumer Health Information
The conference will focus on health information that helps individuals
stay healthy, participate responsibly in medical care decisions for
themselves or their families, and make smart consumer choices among health
care providers. Interest in such information comes not only from consumers
themselves but from the health care and health policy areas as well,
because of the potential for reducing health care costs. At the same
time, a wide variety of community-based organizations-including libraries-
are increasingly called on to provide local health information support
systems.
New Technology
Exciting developments in interactive, networked technology suggest
opportunities for more effective health communication. As a result,
traditional providers of consumer health information are looking at new
media approaches, while advanced communication technology companies are
exploring health as a content area for their products and services.
Potential Partnerships
The conference will be the first opportunity for the full range of
interested parties to jointly explore the apparent potential of network
technologies and consumer health information applications, identify
problems and issues needing further clarification, and begin to define
their respective roles.
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