Emerging patient-driven health care models: An examination of health social networks, consumer personalized medicine and quantified self-tracking

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 492-525

  Swan, Melanie ^a  

^a Education Training Research Assoc   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care delivery; Health social networks; Internet; Long tail medicine; Open source; Patient driven health care; Personalized medicine; Predictive health care; Preventive health care; Quantified self tracking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERNET; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF CARE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 61449109247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph6020492     Document Type: Article

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