Background: Given the rapid changes in the communication landscape brought about by
participative Internet use and social media, it is important to develop a better understanding …

In recent years the Web has come into its own as a social platform where health consumers
are actively creating and consuming Web content. Moreover, as the Web matures …

Background: Consumer health informatics (CHI) is an emerging field that utilizes technology
to provide health information to enhance health-care decision making by the public. There …

The aims of this study were to use the technology acceptance model to examine how the
cultural characteristics of social media users in Taiwan affect their use of social media for …

Recommender systems aim at solving the problem of information overload by selecting
items (commercial products, educational assets, TV programs, etc.) that match the …

Background: An increasing amount of health education resources for patients and
professionals are distributed via social media channels. For example, thousands of health …

People are looking for appropriate health information which they are concerned about. The
Internet is a great resource of this kind of information, but we have to be careful if we don't …

The process of creating a geographically tailored health information website with ongoing
feedback from community members is one of inquiry and discovery, frustration and triumph …

GetHealthyHarlem. org is a community website developed on an open-source platform to
facilitate collaborative development of health content through participatory action research …

Recommender systems aim at solving the problem of information overload by selecting
items (commercial products, educational assets, TV programs, etc) that match the users' …