Mechanisms of Communicating Health Information Through Facebook: Implications for Consumer Health Information Technology Design.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Consumer health information technology (IT) solutions are designed to support patient health management and have the ability to facilitate patients' health information communication with their social networks. However, there is a need for consumer health IT solutions to align with patients' health management preferences for increased adoption of the technology. It may be possible to gain an understanding of patients' needs for consumer health IT supporting their health information communication with social networks by explicating how they have adopted and adapted social networking sites, such as Facebook, for this purpose.

Objective

Our aim was to characterize patients' use of all communication mechanisms within Facebook for health information communication to pro

SUBMITTER: Menefee HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4999533 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature