CNN.com features a story about the work of UW iSchool Associate Professor Wanda Pratt and her team. The team has developed an online system called HealthWeaver. HealthWeaver includes a social networking tool, and aims to help cancer patients manage information about their care, get their questions answered and interact with others who can aid them in their treatment.

CNN reporter Elizabeth Landau interviewed Dr. Pratt and Biomedical and Health Informatics Ph. D. student Meredith Skeels after their research presentations at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI, www.chi2010.org/) in Atlanta this week. Other members of Pratt's team include Kent Unruh, who was instrumental in formulating the idea; Chris Powell, who programmed the system; and many breast cancer patients and survivors who contributed to the design. The HealthWeaver core research team includes Andrea Civan Hartzler, Pedja Klasnja, and Marlee Mukai.

The entire story can be found on CNN.com.