“As consumers increasingly turn to the Internet for health information, a small German study looks at how older, less-educated populations access such information compared with younger, better-educated people. The research, published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, compared the Internet search strategies of 22 native Germans divided into younger and older groups.
A survey from Wolters Kluwer Health released last month found that 57 percent of Americans say they use the Internet to seek out health information; 65 percent said they trust the information they find online.”
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Susan D. Hall, FierceHealthIT, 15 June 2012
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