Some studies estimate 99 million U.S. adults are "empowered consumers," for example, people who would challenge a doctor’s expertise, discuss information found online with a physician, use the Internet instead of seeing a doctor or made a health care decision because of online information.
Is all the health information available online leading to better patient-doctor communication and better health outcomes or information overload?
Panelists will include:
- Dr. Lisa Sanders, New York Times writer and inspiration for Fox TV’s House MD. Dr. Sanders is the author of several books including Every Patient Tells a Story, a practicing physician, and a Yale Medical School professor.
- Dr. Scott Haig, orthopedic surgeon and TIME contributor, who wrote the seminal piece “When The Patient is a Googler.”
- Dr. Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, who founded health care blogs Embargo Watch and Retraction Watch. Oransky also teaches medical journalism at NYU and is a current board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
- Mitch Rothschild, CEO of Vitals.com, a site that gives information on and allows patients to rate over 720,000 medical providers.
- Bill Silberg, has served senior editor roles at Medscape and JAMA, as well as executive positions at New York Academy of Sciences and The Commonwealth Fund.
More event information is available here.
When: Monday, March 7; 6-9 p.m.
Where: AOL, 770 Broadway – 6th Floor (Wanamaker Building, on 9th Street) NYC 10003