e-health
Some of my colleagues at the University of York have been receiving quite a bit of press coverage for the research on ‘e-health’. Their project - part of the ESRC’s Innovative Health Technologies programme - has concluded that GPs have little to worry about with respect to so called ‘netty patients’ for most patients use health care information found on the internet in a very rounded way. They also argue that simplistic arguments about the digital divide should be treated with caution as e-health users spanned income groups in unpredictable ways. Reports can be found on the Times and BBC websites. More too on the ESRC’s site.
