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Cyberchondria: Old Wine in New Bottles

December 2, 2008 By Susannah Fox 18 Comments

Just before Thanksgiving, Microsoft released a study entitled, “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search.” Ryen White and Eric Horvitz took advantage of a data set that few people have access to (log files from Microsoft’s Live Search engine and MSN Health and Fitness) as well as a survey of 515 […]

Susannah Fox on What if your clinician gave you a prescription to check out a patient group that they knew to be good?: “Camila, I love hearing that this is becoming a practice — let’s hope it spreads.” Feb 18, 15:59
Susannah Fox on What if your clinician gave you a prescription to check out a patient group that they knew to be good?: “Thank you, Alex, it did get to me! Sorry for the delay in approving it (an anti-spam feature means I…” Feb 18, 15:58
Camila Ronderos on What if your clinician gave you a prescription to check out a patient group that they knew to be good?: “I work at a health care organisation that has decided as a general way of doing things to map resources…” Feb 18, 14:46

Cyberchondria: Old Wine in New Bottles

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