Healthcare information over the Internet

Research question: How Can We Assist Patients in Finding and Managing Healthcare Information Over the Internet? Team: Khaled Hassanein.

• Canadians increasingly sought health answers online.
• Risk: self-diagnosis from unreliable sources.
• Proposal: one e-health information and communication tool.

Stages

• Model how consumers use e-health information.
• Prototype tested in the business school HCI lab.

Sponsors would see the results first-hand.