Gunther Eysenbach, Associate Professor and Senior Scientist
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, and University of Toronto
Three Expertise Keywords:
civic-engagement, digital-media, health, informatics, medicine
Why Digital Media and Learning?
my interest is consumer health informatics - and digital media and learning play a huge role here
Recent Posts:
Description of Current Work:
# Crossroads of Medical Informatics and Public Health, in particular “Cybermedicine” (Internet and Medicine) and Consumer Health Informatics, including * Computer interventions for health promotion, patient education, health and informed decision making * Credibility and Quality of Health Information * Computers for Health Education, Tailoring health information * Design, implementation and evaluation of medical websites / portal sites (public health and business aspects of e-health) o creating content & community o implementing responsible e-commerce o connecting physicians and patients * Participatory decision making systems * Consumer involvement in designing consumer oriented health information systems * Health Communication / Social Marketing * Health information libraries * Ethical aspects of consumer health informatics * Teleprevention * Teleepidemiology # Evidenced based medicine, Systematic Reviews, Information Retrieval # Electronic Publishing, the role of Open Access on Knowledge Translation
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Editor and publisher of the peer-reviewed open access Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), the #2 ranked journal in health informatics.
MacArthur Series Volume Author: “Credibility of Health Information and Digital Media: New Perspectives and Implications for Youth”
Download here: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262562324.123
Additional Publications:
1.Eysenbach G. Infodemiology: Tracking Flu-Related Searches on the Web for Syndromic Surveillance Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp; 2006: 244-248
2.Eysenbach G. Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biol 2006; 4(5): e157
3. Eysenbach G. The Law of Attrition. J Med Internet Res 2005; 7(1): e11
4. Eysenbach G, Köhler C. Health-Related Searches on the Internet JAMA 2004; 291:2946
5. Eysenbach G, Powell J, Englesakis M, Rizo C, Stern A. Health-related virtual communities and electronic support groups: systematic review of the effects of online peer-to-peer interactions. BMJ 2004;328:1166-70
6. Eysenbach G. The impact of the Internet on cancer outcomes. CA Cancer J Clin 2003; 53(6): 356-371
7. Eysenbach G, Powell J, Kuss O, Sa ER. Empirical studies assessing the quality of health information for consumers on the World Wide Web: A systematic review. JAMA 2002; 287: 2691-2700
8. Eysenbach G, Köhler C. How do consumers search for and appraise health information on the World-Wide-Web? Qualitative study using focus groups, usability tests and in-depth interviews BMJ 2002; 324: 573-577
9. Eysenbach G, Till JE. Ethical issues in qualitative research on Internet communities. BMJ 2001; 323: 1103-1105
10. Eysenbach G. Consumer Health Informatics BMJ 2000;320:1713-1716 (24 June)
11. Eysenbach G, Sa ER, Diepgen TL. Shopping the Internet today and tomorrow - Towards the Millennium of Cybermedicine. BMJ 1999;319:1294 [full] (13 November) [Global Theme Issue on the Impact of New Technology in Medicine]
12. Eysenbach G. The impact of preprint servers and electronic publishing on biomedical research [Guest Editorial]. Current Opinion in Immunology Oct 2000; 12(5): 499-503
13. Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL: Responses to unsolicited patient e-mail requests for medical advice on the World Wide Web. JAMA. 1998;280:1333-1335.
14. Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL. Evaluation of Cyberdocs. Lancet 1998; 352 (9139): 1526
15. Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL: Towards quality management of medical information on the internet: evaluation, labelling, and filtering of information. BMJ 1998;317:1496-1500
16. Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL: Patients Looking for Information on the Internet and Seeking Teleadvice: Motivation, Expectations, and Misconceptions as Expressed in E-mails Sent to Physicians Archives of Dermatology 1999;135:151-156
