Health information websites: Is the health consumer being well served?

Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1202-1211

  Fisher, Julie ^a   Burstein, Frada ^a   Lynch, Kathy ^b   Lazarenko, Kate ^a   McKemmish, Sue ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health portals; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

EASE-OF-USE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS; QUALITY INFORMATION; USERS' PERCEPTION; WEBSITE USABILITY;

HEALTH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84870180603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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