Health Care Information and the Internet

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Due to the Internet, the health care information that is being passed along to consumers is changing greatly. This can be good or bad, depending on who is being asked the question and how the health care information is managed. This paper examines health care information and the Internet to provide a more complete picture of what is going on in this field today.

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"How quality is assessed often comes from peer review. When this is done experts in the field look at the material that is provided to ensure that the work is quality . Some of the Internet sites that deal with medical information utilize this process in order to review the materials that are offered before they are posted . This presents them with some difficulty, however, because the approach of having peer reviewed information is not always uniform and because experts in the field are required . When Internet consumers visit sites that do not have these types of reviews, the quality of information that they receive may be unacceptable."

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