1. 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

2. Distance Education: The Virtual Classroom
In recent years, improvement in streaming technology has made it possible to deliver lectures-on-demand over the Web. Such services, which have made it possible for users to access online lectures over the Web ‘anytime and anywhere’ introduce a powerful whole new experience to learning via distance education.

3. 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
In the context of diabetic patient education, a forum or a lecture on diabetes, its etiology, treatment and management could be video-captured, encoded and deposited in a video server for streaming on demand. In this way, diabetic patients can learn about their disease and its management from seminars/talks given by experts via lecture-on-demand from the Web.

4. 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
Try an example of lecture-on-demand by clicking on the picture. Note: You need to have high bandwidth connectivity to the Internet. Also, the current application only supports the Microsoft IE browser but not Netscape. Use the login name, ‘biostats’ and password, ‘number5’.

5. 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
It is estimated that >22 million people in the USA alone go online to find health information and this number is expected to reach 33 million by end The consumer market for health information on the Web is expected to hit US$1billion also by end As 90% of health information on the Web is in English, language is a major impediment to Web Access by users from non-English-speaking communities throughout the world.

6. An emergent Internet wave is the development of multilingual web resources to reach out to non-English speaking global communities. This will address the global needs of the non-English educated for health information.
Emerging Internet wave: multilingual web resources reaching out to non-English speaking global communities

7. Health ONE- The mulilingual health portal
The NUS Health ONE project saw the need for the development of a multilingual and interactive multimedia health portal as early as 1997 and has health information available not only in English but also in Chinese (to target the large Chinese-speaking communities in Asia such as the P.R.of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore) and in Malay (to target the large Malay-speaking communities in Indonesia and Malaysia).

8. 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 pervasiveness of the Internet and the World Wide Web have ushered in a new age of consumer health informatics as more and more people go on the Web to look for health information.

9. 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
The ‘doctor-knows-best’ relationship in the physician-patient encounter is rapidly changing as a result of the pervasiveness of the Web. Clients are becoming informed about their condition and treatment options via the Web and are eager to discuss their therapeutic alternatives, gleaned from the Web, with their doctors

10. The need to protect consumers
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The need to protect consumers
The ability to easily access medical knowledge and information also brings with it the real danger of misinformation of the consumer. Health information on the Internet can be biased, misleading and even wrong. This was received by the author who promptly noted the wild and unsubstantiated claims!
Received on
9 May 1999

11. The need to protect consumers
The need to protect consumers from misinformation has prompted the US Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health to advise consumers of the need to learn to distinguish a reliable site from a bad one.
Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health

12. 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
At Health ONE, no effort is spared to ensure that information available from the health portal is reliable, peer-reviewed and evidence-based. By adopting a multilingual approach, the Health ONE development team believes that health information for all by the year 2000 is achievable through the World Wide Web.

13. First Prize The 1998 Internet Conference
21-24 July 1998, Geneva,Switzerland
The multilingual approach to the delivery of health information on the World Wide Web earned Health ONE first prize in the scientific poster category at INET ’98, the Internet Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland.
First Prize
Scientific Poster Category

14. 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
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Dr Lun’s educational web resources

15. Thank you