“Two online discussions forced me to return to a question that I have wrestled with for the last nine years that I have been working on information therapy (the first year-plus of that was myself referring to it as “information prescribing”): Is the term “information therapy” helping or hurting the mission and vision of the Center for Information Therapy?
The first discussion that I referenced yesterday was on the e-patients blog and the second is the proposed Healthy People 2020 objective (”Ensure that each encounter with the delivery system is accompanied by prescribed information that supports an individual’s personal health needs”).”
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog, 8 April 2009

