ABSTRACT
Online health community is a new medical treatment mode combining the Internet and medical treatment. Patients can get medical services through the network. However, it cannot be ignored that patients’ trust will be affected by the uncertainty of online medical information, the unsafe factors of patients’ private information, the insufficient standardization of the diagnosis and treatment process, and other issue in the process of using this new medical treatment mode. By taking measures such as improving the information quality in online health community, enhancing patients’ cognitive ability of health information, perfecting privacy protection measures in online health community, advancing patients’ participation in online health community and ensuring the standardization of diagnosis and treatment process, patients’ trust can be improved.