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EVALUATING ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Gary L. Kreps and Jordan Alpert

Introduction

Powerful new online health information systems have been shown to hold tremendous promise for enhancing the delivery and use of risk and health communication programs (Kreps, 2015; 2011b). Tremendous growth and widespread adoption of online health information systems, such as health information websites, interactive health decision support systems, and mobile health devices, have demonstrated great potential to enhance response to health and risk issues by supplementing and extending traditional channels for communication (Kreps, 2015). The use of new health information technologies can enable broad dissemination of relevant health information that ...

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