# Healthcare information over the Internet

> Khaled Hassanein's MeRC eHealth project: helping patients find and manage health information online, with a prototype tested in the DeGroote HCI laboratory.

Page URL: https://merc-mcmaster.ca/research/research-projects-healthcare/

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.