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April 30, 2007 How Consumers Use Social Computing For Healthby Chloe Stromberg with Josh Bernoff, Elizabeth Boehm, Sarah Glass |
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Executive Summary
Health marketers are used to waiting out technology trends, but Social Computing is making them nervous. While disease is more prevalent among older consumers, one in four Gen Xers and Gen Yers with medical conditions use Social Computing for health today. New forms of Social Computing are emerging for healthcare, from expert health blogs that turn medical information into conversation to social networks that inspire with personal stories and progress trackers. Result: more transparency in healthcare, a trend that health plans and pharmaceutical companies must prepare for. Marketers should move now to monitoring, planning for, and, when possible, participating in Social Computing activities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Are Youth-Oriented Social Tools Ill-Matched To Health Problems
WHAT IT MEANS
- More Transparency, More Risks In Health Marketing
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Health Marketers: Don't Wait To Learn
- Related Research Documents
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