Overview

Peer-to-peer healthcare is a way for people to do what they have always done – lend a hand, lend an ear, lend advice – but at internet speed and at internet scale. It is the evolution of internet use that the Pew Internet Project has been tracking in other industries, and it is just finally having an impact on health care.

Susannah Fox delivered these remarks at the Medicine 2.0'11 Congress held at Stanford.