Strategies for the Education of Diabetic Patients on the World Wide Web Part II k c lun

Strategies for the Education of Diabetic Patients on the World Wide Web Part II

• K C LUN

• Associate Professor, Dept of Community Medicine

• Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Informatics

• Director, Medical Informatics Programme

• National University of Singapore

Distance Education: The Virtual Classroom

Web-based Learning: The Virtual Classroom

Virtual Classroom Project: BIOSTATISTICS ON THE WEB

• TRY IT

Health Information on the Net

• 90% of health information in English

• global need to address information requirements of the non-English educated

• need is exacerbated by increasing penetration of Internet in largely non-English speaking communities such as Asia

Emerging Internet wave: multilingual web resources reaching out to non-English speaking global communities

Health ONE- The mulilingual health portal

The Age of Consumer Health Informatics

• More than 22 million Americans go online to find health information

• Number will reach 33 million by year 2000

• Revenue from consumer market for health information on the Web will be US$1billion by year 2000

The Age of Consumer Health Informatics

• Explosion of medical knowledge (and misinformation) among public will cause a dramatic shift in balance of power between doctor and patient, changing how medicine is practised profoundly

The need to protect consumers

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The need to protect consumers

Achieving Health Information for All by the Year 2000 - the multilingual approach of Health ONE

About Dr K C Lun

• Dr K C Lun is Associate Professor and Director of the Medical Informatics Research Programme at the National University of Singapore. Internationally, he is President-elect of the International Medical Informatics Association.