The Biomedical and Health Informatics PhD program prepares individuals to develop and apply informatics theories and tools to solve complex problems across the life sciences and health ecosystem. The ...

Younger Americans are more likely to use social media at least sometimes for health information than their older peers.

The healthcare industry has emerged to be very data-intensive. How much, you ask? Well, it would require 2.3 zettabytes of data (or 2.3 trillion DVDs) to capture fully the data that the industry ...

Widespread use of online medical content and AI tools is reshaping decision-making and raising concerns about misinformation.

The National Institutes of Health allotted $46 million in grant funding to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., to renew the university’s hub for clinical, translational and informatics research ...

Health Informatics is a rapidly emerging discipline that connects people, technology, and data to better improve healthcare outcomes. Health Informatics professionals work with the processes and tools ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on health information and how they view their own health. Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...

Health information seeking and avoidance represent two intertwined behavioural phenomena that shape how individuals engage with health-related content. While active information seeking can empower ...

To evaluate whether health information you’ve found online is reliable, you can consider its sources, evaluate it for bias, and check it against what trustworthy sources are saying on the topic.

Reliable health information online uses high quality, recent, peer-reviewed research. People should look for balanced information and site transparency and avoid websites that use sensationalism or ...