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 Collaborating Centre for Health Informatics Director, Medical Informatics Programme National University of Singapore

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network Distance Education: The Virtual Classroom

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network 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

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network Virtual Classroom Project: BIOSTATISTICS ON THE WEB TRY IT login: biostats Password:number5 Requirements: high bandwidth runs only on MS Internet Explorer but NOT Netscape

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network 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

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network Emerging Internet wave: multilingual web resources reaching out to non-English speaking global communities

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network Health ONE- The mulilingual health portal

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network 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

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network 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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© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network The need to protect consumers Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network Achieving Health Information for All by the Year 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

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network First Prize Scientific Poster Category The 1998 Internet Conference July 1998, Geneva,Switzerland

© KC Lun, NUS 1 st International Conference on Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network 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. Dr Lun’s homepage and contacts Send to Dr Lun Dr Lun’s educational web resources

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