Abstract
Although overall Internet use rates have leveled off, users with disabilities remain active participants in a new cultural model for how we work, shop, learn, and socialize. By recognizing and accommodating these “digital outcasts,” a health care model that emphasizes self-empowerment and accountability can demonstrate what the future of managed health care might become.
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