My research interests lie at the crossroads of medical informatics and public health, in particular cybermedicine (internet and medicine) and consumer health informatics, including:
- Computer interventions for health promotion, patient education, health and informed decision making
- Health assessment systems
- Computers for health education and tailoring health information
- Design, implementation and evaluation of medical websites / portal sites (public health and business aspects of e-health)
- creating content and community
- implementing responsible e-commerce
- connecting physicians and patients
- Participatory decision making systems
- Consumer involvement in designing consumer oriented health information systems
- Health communication / social Marketing
- Health information libraries
- Ethical aspects of consumer health informatics
- Teleprevention
- Teleepidemiology
- Evidenced based medicine; systematic Reviews; information retrieval
- Electronic Publishing
- Scientific misconduct and research ethics