ABSTRACT
Powerful new online health information systems have been shown to hold tremendous promise for enhancing the delivery and use of risk and health communication programs (Kreps, 2015; 2011b). Tremendous growth and widespread adoption of online health information systems, such as health information websites, interactive health decision support systems, and mobile health devices, have demonstrated great potential to enhance response to health and risk issues by supplementing and extending traditional channels for communication (Kreps, 2015). The use of new health information technologies can enable broad dissemination of relevant health information that can be personalized to the unique information needs of individuals facing health risks (Kreps, in press; Neuhauser & Kreps, 2008). These e-health communication channels can provide health care consumers and providers with the relevant health information they need to respond to serious health and risk issues exactly when and where they need the information (Krist, Nease, Kreps, Overholser, & McKenzie, 2016).
