Venezuelan health websites in the information age

Abstract

Health websites are an information window, so consult cyberpatients services and specialized information. The problem arises when the search becomes a medical consultation, which moves to the specialist and place to ciberpaciente able to decode diagnostics, make decisions about what to do with your health. The following work aims to explore the role health portals in the era of information. Through a design documentary, using as the observation technique and two observation sheets, five national health web site were analyzed. The result was that the Venezuelan web site do not motivate decisions on health and is at the discretion of ciberpaciente accessed using the material.