Title
Consumer engagement with eHealth information through smartphones and tablets: An Australian perspective
Abstract
This paper is a work in progress that examines current consumer engagement with eHealth information through Smartphones or tablets. We focus on three activity types: seeking, posting and `other' engagement activity and compare two age groups, 25-40s and over 40-50s. Findings show that around 30% of the younger age group is engaging with Government and other Health providers' websites, receiving eHealth emails, and reading other people's comments about health related issues in online discussion groups/websites/blog. Approximately 20% engage with Government and other Health providers social media, watch or listen to audio or video podcasts. For the older age group, their most active engagement with eHealth information is in the seeking category through Government or other health websites (approximately 15%), and less than 10% for social media sites. Their posting activity is less than 5%. Other activities show that less than 15% of the older age group engages through receiving emails and reading blogs, less than 10% watch or listen to podcasts, and their online consulting activity is less than 7%. We note that scores are low for both groups in terms of engaging with eHealth information through Twitter.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720732
e-Health Networking, Applications & Services
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,medical information systems,notebook computers,smart phones,social networking (online),Australian perspective,Twitter,consumer engagement,eHealth emails,eHealth information,online discussion Websites,online discussion blog,online discussion groups,smartphones,tablets,consumer mobile search and activity behaviour,eHealth,mHealth
Internet privacy,Social media,Age groups,Computer science,mHealth,eHealth,Online discussion,Government,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-5800-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lynda Andrews100.34
Randike Gajanayake2235.20
Tony Sahama33613.63