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Date: Tuesday, April 15, 1997 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Damon Thompson (202) 205-1842
Shalala, joined via video by Vice President Gore, launched the web site at the opening session of the Partnerships For Networked Consumer Health Information '97 Conference in Washington.
"With healthfinder, we're helping people get reliable health information, faster and easier, over the Internet," Shalala said. "We're covering a wide range of information, and we're providing information that people can trust."
She said healthfinder can lead people to information that addresses not only the leading causes of death, like heart disease and cancer, but also the problems behind them -- like smoking, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity and substance abuse.
"We hear a lot about how managed care is changing our health care system," Gore told the conference attendees. "What we don't hear is how the consumers themselves are changing it. More and more, they are turning to the Internet to get the health-related information they need. Healthfinder will provide the public with easier access to more quality federal consumer health information than is available now from any single source on the World Wide Web."
Healthfinder brings together under one umbrella the broad range of consumer health information resources produced by the federal government and its many partners. Its current resources include:
Healthfinder was developed by HHS' Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) in collaboration with many other agencies.