Consumers' perceptions about and use of the Internet for personal health records and health information exchange: Analysis of the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Wen, Kuang Yi ^a   Kreps, Gary ^b   Zhu, Fang ^a   Miller, Suzanne ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer perceptions and utilization; Demography; Health care surveys; Health communication trend; Health information exchange; Internet; Personal health records

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSUMER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651298036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1668     Document Type: Article

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