An Online Healthy Diet System :An Overview

Abstract

The Internet, which brought the most innovative improvement on information
society, has also brought many remarkable changes of healthcare services. Via the
Internet, accessing information about healthcare services became relatively easier for
service consumers who need adequate medical treatments. Moreover, consumers can
communicate with doctors to get medical advices or to make appointment by e-mail
or instant messengers, which are more convenient communication channels than by
phone. Because of these benefits, much more healthcare service providers started
publishing web sites for their service on the Internet competitively; as a consequence,
consumers can obtain wide choice of services and better service quality.However,
there are also negative effects caused by exponential growth of the healthcare web
sites. Because of too much information available, consumers cannot easily choose
proper healthcare service among them. Some of them might not be able to judge what
healthcare services are helpful because evaluating those services usually requires
medical expertise. Moreover, there might be over-advertising web sites that show off
exaggerated information about services.