Online Healthcare Discussions 98% Patient or Caregiver Driven

Here is a fascinating Infographic on the source and content of online healthcare discussions. Turns out that in all but one case Healthcare Providers are supplying 2% or less of the content of these posts.

The lone exception is the topic of Lung Cancer where healthcare providers supply a whopping 9% of the information in online chat.

In a number of cases the majority of the discussion is driven by the patient’s caregiver … Alzheimer’s disease tops that statistic as you might expect.

The authors of this infographic focused on disease specific discussions and found the most discussed topics to be

Depression
Fibromyalgia
Breast Cancer
ADD
Asthma
Cardiovascular Disease

Here is a link to the full size image and a thumbnail view is below

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