Strategies for the Education of Diabetic Patients on the World Wide Web Part II K C LUN Associate Professor, Dept of Community Medicine Director, WHO

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K C LUN<[email protected]>

Associate Professor, Dept of Community MedicineDirector, WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Informatics

Director, Medical Informatics ProgrammeNational University of Singapore

© KC Lun, NUS1st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network

Distance Education: The Virtual Classroom


Web-based Learning: The Virtual Classroom

In future, diabetic patients can learn about their disease and its management from seminars / talks given by experts via lecture-on-demand from the World Wide Web


Virtual Classroom Project:BIOSTATISTICS ON THE WEB

TRY IT

login: biostatsPassword: number5

Requirements:• high bandwidth• runs only on MS Internet Explorer but NOT Netscape

http://mipinfo.mip.nus.edu.sg/kclun/lectures/biostatistics


Health Information on the Net

• 90% of health information in English

• global need to address information requirements of the non-English educated

• need is exacerbated by increasing penetration of Internet in largely non-English speaking communities such as Asia


Emerging Internet wave: multilingual web resources reaching out to non-English speaking global communities


Health ONE- The mulilingual health portal


The Age of Consumer Health Informatics

• More than 22 million Americans go online to find health information

• Number will reach 33 million by year 2000

• Revenue from consumer market for health information on the Web will be US$1billion by year 2000


The Age of Consumer Health Informatics

Explosion of medical knowledge (and misinformation) among public will cause a dramatic shift in balance of power between doctor and patient, changing how medicine is practised profoundly

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The need to protect

consumers

Received on 9 May 1999

Received on 9 May 1999


The need to protect consumers

Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health


Achieving Health Information for All by the Year 2000 -

the multilingual approach of Health ONE

Health ONE information only from reliable, peer-reviewed, evidence-based resources.

Users - public and professionals - are adequately protected from mis-information


First PrizeScientific Poster Category

The 1998 Internet Conference21-24 July 1998, Geneva,Switzerland


About Dr K C Lun

Dr K C Lun is Associate Professor and Director of the Medical Informatics Research Programme at the National University of Singapore. Internationally, he is President-elect of the International Medical Informatics Association.

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Strategies for the Education of Diabetic Patients on the World Wide Web Part II K C LUN Associate Professor, Dept of Community Medicine Director, WHO