From Jane Sarasohn-Kahn...

Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating health care consumers and providers. While consumers use social media -- including social networks, personal blogging, wikis, video-sharing, and other formats -- for emotional support, they also heavily rely on them to manage health conditions. http://www.chcf.org/topics/chronicdisease/index.cfm?itemID=133631

You may want to visit her blog at http://www.healthpopuli.com/