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Consumers seek to manage their health online at an accelerating pace.
Approximately 25 million U.S. adults are searching for online health information and services. Historically notorious technophobes, physicians increasingly use the Net for professional reasons. Health Care Information Technology investment levels are low, but the market for traditional HCIT and Web applications should grow rapidly. Health Care costs are again on the rise after declining for much of the 90s. Now that managed care enrollment is high, we believe the next round of medical cost inflation will be fought with technology.