Consumer health informatics has emerged as a strategy to inform and empower patients for
selfmanagement of their health. The emergence of and explosion in use of user-generated
online media (eg, blogs) has created new opportunities to inform and educate people about
healthy living. Under a prevention research project, we are developing a website that utilizes
social content collaboration mediums in conjunction with open-source technologies to
create a community-driven resource that provides users with tailored health information.