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

Learn about strategies for educating diabetic patients through web-based learning platforms and multilingual health portals. Explore the impact of consumer health informatics and the need to protect consumers from misinformation.

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

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  1. Strategies for the Education of Diabetic Patients on the World Wide WebPart II K C LUN <kclun@nus.edu.sg> Associate Professor, Dept of Community Medicine Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Informatics Director, Medical Informatics Programme National University of Singapore

  2. Distance Education: The Virtual Classroom

  3. Web-based Learning: The Virtual Classroom In future, diabetic patients can learn about their disease and its management from seminars / talks given by experts via lecture-on-demand from the World Wide Web

  4. Virtual Classroom Project:BIOSTATISTICS ON THE WEB TRY IT • login: biostats • Password: number5 • Requirements: • high bandwidth • runs only on MS • Internet Explorer • but NOT Netscape

  5. 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

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

  7. Health ONE- The mulilingual health portal

  8. 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

  9. 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

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  11. The need to protect consumers Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health

  12. Achieving Health Information for All by the Year 2000 -the multilingual approach of Health ONE Health ONE information only from reliable, peer-reviewed, evidence-based resources. Users - public and professionals - are adequately protected from mis-information

  13. The 1998 Internet Conference 21-24 July 1998, Geneva,Switzerland First Prize Scientific Poster Category

  14. 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. Dr Lun’s homepage and contacts Send e-mail to Dr Lun Dr Lun’s educational web resources

  15. Thank you E-mail: kclun@nus.edu.sg

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