3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“Today I had been all set to talk at a Total Telecom mHealth Breakfast Briefing in London alongside Thierry Zylberberg, Head of Healthcare at Orange/France Telecom and Keith Nurcombe, Managing Director at O2 Health/Telefonica, about the mHealth opportunity to give patients recommendations and information as opposed to choices and data.
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Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“In just a few years medicine has taken major steps to move from paper records in individual doctor’s offices to electronic medical records that can be shared with patients and their other physicians.
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Thomas McMennamin, EHR Bloggers
“The US healthcare system is becoming increasingly focused on the use of health information technology, but frequently we concentrate too heavily on the “technology” rather than the “information.”
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Lewis S et al, Health Expectations, 2010
Introduction
This study explores what types of information obese individuals search for on the Internet, their motivations for seeking information and how they apply it in their daily lives.
Method
In-depth telephone interviews with an Australian community sample of 142 individuals with a BMI ≥ 30 were conducted. Theoretical, purposive and strategic samplings were employed. Data were analysed using a constant comparative method.
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MSN Health
“Multipurpose gadgets — from the dubious devices hawked on late-night television to reliable standbys like food processors — capture our fancy because they promise to save space, time, and money. The iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry are no exception.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“E-health care is a noble concept crated for the online health care of people. Information technology (IT) will be one of the most promising upcoming departments in the health services sector. This concord of health service and IT companies has lead to the development of various technologies which are already put into use.
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Hristidis V et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
Background
As the use of electronic health records (EHRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need to search and provide effective information discovery within them. Querying by keyword has emerged as one of the most effective paradigms for searching. Most work in this area is based on traditional Information Retrieval (IR) techniques, where each document is compared individually against the query. We compare the effectiveness of two fundamentally different techniques for keyword search of EHRs.
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“Heeft een huisarts er iets aan om te twitteren? Te wat? Twitteren, of in goed Nederlands: kwetteren. Twitter is een site waar je korte berichten kunt achterlaten. Je kunt anderen volgen, en mensen (“tweeps”) die jouw gekwetter interessant vinden, volgen jou. Miljoenen mensen wereldwijd gebruiken het. Waar gaat het dan over? Over alles. Er zijn geen regels: anything goes.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“We don’t often write about consumer-facing products, but we thought this one was significant, because it comes to us from Charlie Koo, founder and original CEO of electronic medical records vendor iMedica, now called Aprima Medical Software.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“From the very first days of ICMCC I have stressed the importance of the delivery of information.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The chief executive of the Information Centre has claimed that the UK has the potential to have the best technology and information systems in the world “if we continue to stick with it.”
He pledged to deliver systems to help achieve this within the next 12-18 months.
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“e-Patient Dave made an important point on the e-patients.net blog yesterday, “The I in IT stands for Information.” It’s a good reminder, as is the first comment to his post that, “Data is only information if you can use it.”
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Blog
“This site is in English, as it is the most accessible language. But we offer links to articles in French, German, Dutch and Spanish as well. And you can read this site in many other languages, thanks to Google Translate.
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“Remarks for the Conference on Harnessing the Power of Information
St. John’s, Newfoundland
The metaphor at the heart of this conference – harnessing the power of information – is particularly apt. The potential for information contained in electronic health records to help patients, researchers, health care providers and governments very much depends on how it is harnessed and, in particular, how EHR systems respond to privacy concerns. Perhaps another metaphor is equally fitting – that of the Roman god Janus, whose name is invoked to symbolize transitions, such as the transition from past to future or the shift from one vision to another. EHRs clearly symbolize a Janus-like shift from one vision of health care to another.”
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Jay Byers, EMR Services of Canada Blog, 31 December 2008
“The health-care industry is about to undergo a global revolution driven by a force it can no longer resist: information technology.
While hospitals and other care providers have long been quick to adopt breakthrough technology in medical devices, procedures and treatments, far less attention has focused on innovations in networking and communications.”
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Amar Gupta, The Wallstreet Journal, 20 October 2008
“The National Information Governance Board is to become a statutory body, replacing the Patient Information Advisory Group, following Royal Assent for the Health and Social Care Act 2008.”
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e-Health Insider, 23 July 2008
“The Internet has produced two types of patients, says Dr Joseph Kosgey, a general practitioner at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi.
“Some of the patients now go to the doctor just for the prescription, since after consulting the Internet they already know what they are suffering from. The other lot of patients after being diagnosed by the doctors go the net to research on the doctor’s findings,” says Dr Kosgei.”
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Beatrice Gachenge, Business Daily Africa, 23 April 2008
“If information is power, then the Internet makes your power absolute. Several times, just since launching this blog, I’ve been able to shock my doctors with new knowledge. They can’t sneak stuff by me. They’re no longer the final word.
But all Internet communication is two-way. I can learn about new research, new drugs, and new devices, but the makers of these things also have new ways to reach me. Those who take fullest advantage, and scale that intimacy, can become big-name brands.”
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare, 22 April 2008
“I have heard this theory many times, but I was glad to run across an article on it. The basic point is that too many choices have negative implications on people. In this article from Health Day News, it discusses a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology about the effect of multiple choices.”
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George Van Antwerp,Patient Centric Healthcare, 18 April 2008
“The focus of true health care reform must be placed on information and how it enters the health care equation-how it is used, processed, managed and archived. The outcome of the patient encounter is most important and to get the proper outcome, meaningful information must be available to the health care provider at the right place and at the right time.”
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Scott McCabe, Advance, 7 April 2008
