Sheri Ross, Technology for Doctors Online
“Healthcare providers have a unique opportunity to not only address current or anticipated health problems with their patients, but also to help patients avoid future negative health consequences by teaching them how to care for themselves. Regular reinforcement increases the likelihood that patients will adhere to the concepts being taught.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Patients can benefit by getting a variety of healthcare information electronically–as these seven options prove.
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Enrique Mezquita, Diario Médico
“Las consultas se llenan diariamente de pacientes que antes de acudir han buscado información en internet y, según las perspectivas, este fenómeno seguirá creciendo. “Los profesionales no solamente deben aprender a convivir con esta situación, sino además a sacarle el máximo provecho”
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Zachary F. Meisel, Time
“The medical intern started her presentation with an eye roll. “The patient in Room 3 had some blood in the toilet bowl this morning and is here with a pile of Internet printouts listing all the crazy things she thinks she might have.”
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OWNI
“Selon le docteur Jacques Lucas, vice-président du Conseil National de l’Ordre des Médecins (Cnom), en charge des technologies de l’information et de la communication, Internet constitue “un virage majeur dans la relation médecins/patients”.
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Don Kemper, The Health Care Blog
“Everyone was expecting the new meaningful use rules to include some important, but relatively basic advances for the consumer—and it did. However few of us expected meaningful use would include a real consumer gift: the requirement that EMRs help doctors deliver information prescriptions to each patient.
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Ulmer PA, Robishaw S, Journal of Consumer Health On the Internet, 14(2)
The Geisinger Community Health Library initiated its InfoRx program in 2008 as a partnership between physicians and the librarian to deliver health information to inpatients and their family members. Using the system’s electronic health record (EHR), EPIC, the physician sends an information prescription to the librarian, who finds and delivers appropriate health information, then documents it in the EHR.
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Denise Silber's Blog
“Nous l’avons vu: en France, 70 % de la population sont internautes. Il faut donc partir du principe que, même si un individu n’est pas “connecté”, quelqu’un de son entourage peut l’être ou peut se rendre dans une bibliothèque publique pour s’en servir.
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Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week
“An emerging technical standard could improve the delivery of health information to patients — and help electronic health records comply with “meaningful use” requirements under Human Services Department rules, according to a new white paper from health executives.
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Don Kemper et al, Healthwise
Imagine—anytime you have a health care question, face a treatment decision, or need to learn a new self-management skill, all of the tools you need are presented before you in a tailored, personalized, and easy-to-use way.
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ICTzorg
“Wat zijn de effecten van online informatie op maat? Daar ging de scriptie over die de scriptieprijs online hulp 2009 heeft gewonnen.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“Among the many things that made the IxCenter’s Patient-Centered HIT Initiative great was listening in to what patients were saying about their care. We can learn an enormous amount from listening to consumers about their care experiences.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“I expected health 2.0 to put that “focus on the patient” to work, helping the patient to get to the driver seat and become an active participant in his/her health path. But is it really?
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Jack Beaudoin, Healthcare IT News
“Holding their first joint conference, partisans of Health 2.0 and Ix (Information Therapy) agreed that the U.S. health delivery system needs reform and that technology can provide the means to do so – but disagreed on the prescription for change.
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Obi Jo, Real Health Reform
“Many claim to have coined the term “information therapy”. The fact is that information “therapy” has been practiced by providers for decades, without their really knowing it. When each of us visits our doctors, we receive information – even if we don’t remember 90% of what we are told.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“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?
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John Grohol, e-Patients.net
“I once thought I knew what “information therapy” meant. It meant a doctor or other healthcare professional “prescribed” certain information for you to read, so you could learn about your health or mental health condition.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“The British government’s National Health Service continues to advance the expectation of information prescriptions (Ix) as a normal part of health care delivery.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“It’s an issue we at ICMCC have been focusing at since our very early days (see The Information Paradigm) [1].
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“The virtual health home is the “other half” of the patient-centered medical home. Some might say it’s the better half.
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