When Healthy People 2000 was dreamed up two decades ago, the World Wide Web was not much more than a figment of someone’s imagination. When Healthy People 2010 was issued 10 years later, the Web had become a powerful avenue for democratizing access to health information. How can we possibly anticipate what the Internet will mean when we try to evaluate the nation’s health in 2020?

That’s the start of my post on the blog that is serving as an important input for the development of the Healthy People 2020 objectives for e-health and health communication. In addition to this post, I’ll be monitoring the input to HHS on this topic for the next two weeks, so come join the conversation over there.

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