Title

A perspective on healthcare related web interfaces

Authors

Ramesh Chandra Tripathi¹, Neera Singh^1*

Affiliation

¹Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India

Email

dr_neerasingh@yahoo.co.in

Article Type

Views & Challenges

Date

Received March 13, 2009; Revised June 18, 2009; Accepted July 18, 2009; Published September 06, 2009

Abstract

Consumer retrieval of health information through the internet has become prevalent. In the past, physicians provided filtered health information to the consumer. However, the availability of health related information including disease specific research trends over the World Wide Web is useful for clinicians and consumers. The use of internet based health care information by clinicians and consumers have increased in recent years. Nonetheless, consumers often have difficulties in evaluating such data in a comprehensive manner. Here, we describe the current status of health care related data over the World Wide Web.

Citation

Tripathy & Singh, Bioinformation 4(2): 87-89 (2009)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.