Consumer Informatics

Web 2.0 Tool             The World Wide Web has greatly evolved in most recent years. Its newest Web 2.0 tools have made creating and accessing websites more attainable for the average internet user. The term Web 2.0 refers to “the second generation of the Web” which is also known as the “read/write web, which centers on the ability for people to collaborate and share information” (Hebda & Czar, 2013, p. 84). Some examples of Web 2.0 tool applications are blogs, wikis, and video-sharing sites such as YouTube. YouTube             YouTube is a user-friendly, video-sharing Web 2.0 tool that allows consumers and health professionals to connect, educate, share ideas, and network with others. It is the second-largest search engine in the world, and currently the fastest growing video-sharing website (Mushroom Networks, 2017). YouTube has four essential values that defines ...

The purpose of this assignment is to compare data collected from interviews we personally conducted to data read/reviewed in similar studies and develop a PowerPoint presentation to unveil the data using appropriate tools. My PowerPoint presentation can be accessed on YouTube through the link below: Consumer Assessment: Consumer Data Analysis Lessons Learned    The results of my interviews suggest that all of the consumers in my interviews access the internet, but only 30% are frequently searching for health-related information.    The majority of consumers have seen a healthcare provider in the last six months (80%), but only 30% are searching the internet for questions/information to discuss with their provider prior to their visit.    In the Campbell study, 36.5% of participants searched the internet to locate health information after their visit with a healthcare provider (2005, p. 10); in my interviews, 50% of consumers used the in...

After reviewing the article Consumer Informatics: Elderly Persons and the Internet (Campbell, 2005), I developed a set of interview questions addressing information presented in the tables 2 and 3 of the article. These questions were presented to 10 consumers, ranging in the ages of 26-64, a total of five female and five male participants. One female was 26 years old, two females and three males were 31-39 years, one male was 48 years old, two females were 54 & 57 years old, and one male was 64 years old. I presented this information to the subjects requesting their voluntary participation to gain more knowledge on their use of technology and accessing the internet as a healthcare consumer to improve the quality of their care. I developed several questions similar to the Campbell study. The initial questions helped gain a general understanding of the participants such as gender, employment status, and education level and the remainder of the questions allowed me to collect dat...