promo'ing "med-tech": "Wired for Health andWell-Being"/"Networking for Better Care: Health Care in the InformationAge"

[Peter Marshall <techdiff@ix.netcom.com>]

Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 13:43:34 -0400
From: Rachel Anderson <rachel@BENTON.ORG>
Subject: Headlines Extra -- Health and Communications 5/7/99
To: UPFORGRABS-L@CDINET.COM

If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the information
revolution is invaluable to us all. As illness becomes more preventable
than ever, one of today's major health challenges is helping people to make
the choices that can keep themselves and their children healthy. "Emerging
communication tools, such as the Internet, can help us spread the
prevention message and promote health in ways that previous generations
could only dream of," wrote US Surgeon General David Satcher in a foreword
to Wired for Health and Well-Being (www.scipich.org/pubs/finalreport.htm).

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It is essential, however, that certain issues are addressed in order to
that ensure that all Americans reap the benefits of Information Age health
care and that the information they receive is both accurate and responsive
to their needs.

In Networking for Better Care: Health Care in the Information Age
(www.benton.org/Library/health), published by the Benton Foundation, author
Chris Conte asks whether the increasing flow of digital data really is
making us healthier -- or is it merely overwhelming us?  Conte examines
efforts currently under way to use information tools to improve health care
and to develop quality content that is accessible to all.

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