Internet: Als Informationsquelle zu Arzneimitteln immer wichtiger
e-Health-com News
“Wie informieren sich Verbraucher beim Kauf von Arzneimitteln und Gesundheitsprodukten? Welche Einstellungen haben sie zu Gesundheitsthemen?
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Fitness apps out; virtual coaches in
Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT
“Health and fitness apps and websites may be getting a bad rap these days, with many viewed as ineffective and unlikely to help users achieve long-term results. But add a “virtual coach” and you may boost effectiveness, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, conducted by Partners’ Center for Connected Health in Boston.
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An Internet-Based Virtual Coach to Promote Physical Activity Adherence in Overweight Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial
Watson A et al, J Med Internet Res, 14(1)
Background:
Addressing the obesity epidemic requires the development of effective, scalable interventions. Pedometers and Web-based programs are beneficial in increasing activity levels but might be enhanced by the addition of nonhuman coaching.
Objectives:
We hypothesized that a virtual coach would increase activity levels, via step count, in overweight or obese individuals beyond the effect observed using a pedometer and website alone.
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Cyberchondria: the one diagnosis patients miss
Christine S. Moyer, amednews
“When Chicago family physician Kit C. Lee, MD, asks patients for their symptoms during office visits, some already have diagnosed their illness.
By visiting the Internet first.
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The Internet is where patients go for pre-visit consultations
Mark Britton, Kevin MD
“As a physician, technology cannot replace you, but it can make you more efficient and effective.
This was the message from Richard Satava, MD, who spoke on the future of surgical technology at the recent Seattle Surgical Society Annual Meeting.
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Study: Little patient enthusiasm for web-based health improvement tools
Luke Gale, CMIO
“Internet use among adults has skyrocketed over the past several years and the time may seem ripe for developing web-based tools to help patients manage their health, but research published online Jan. 4 by the Journal of Health Communication suggested that such tools will receive underwhelming attention from patients.
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Google knows more about certain diseases than physicians ever will
Lukas Zinnagl, KevinMD
“Professor Gunter Dueck, is a calm and eloquent german mathematician who’s also the CTO of IBM Germany. He studied mathematics and philosophy and eventually turned out to be a great writer and speaker. Unfortunately he only does so in German, which is why it doesn’t make much sense to post a video of him here.
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Medizinische Suchmaschinen im Internet
Anja Stagge, Healthcare meets Social Media…
“Nicht jeder Mediziner kann es sich erlauben, sich jedes Wochenende auf Kongressen und Fortbildungen über die neuestens Erkenntnisse der medizinischen Forschung zu informieren und das Wissen zu aktualisieren. Studien zufolge nutzen wissenschaftlich tätige Mediziner das Internet täglich fast1-2 Stunden, Kliniker und Niedergelassene vier bis fünf Tage die Woche etwa eine Stunde.
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Google Flu Trends: Correlation With Emergency Department Influenza Rates and Crowding Metrics
Dugas AF et al, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012
Background.
Google Flu Trends (GFT) is a novel Internet-based influenza surveillance system that uses search engine query data to estimate influenza activity and is available in near real time. This study assesses the temporal correlation of city GFT data to cases of influenza and standard crowding indices from an inner-city emergency department (ED).
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Improving diabetes management with electronic health records and patients’ health records
Benhamou P-Y. Diabetes & Metabolism, 37S4
The lack of patient engagement and clinical inertia both contribute to suboptimal diabetes care. However, both obstacles are amenable to informatics- and Internet-based interventions. The use of electronic medical records (EMRs) is now established as being useful for improving diabetes care. Intelligent records that integrate computerized decision-support systems are now able to recommend care protocols tailored to risk levels. Web-based personal health record (PHR) systems, shared with healthcare providers, could also provide added value by promoting self-management of the behaviours related to diabetes. These Web-based programmes include patients’ access to EMRs, uploading of glucose monitoring results, a glucose diary, secure e-mail with providers, manual or automated feedback on blood glucose readings and other risk factors, an educational website, and an online diary for entering personal information on exercise, diet and medication.
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Internet-Plattform: Hilfe für Patienten mit seltenen Krankheiten
e-Health-com News
“Für chronisch kranke Menschen kann das Leben vielfältige Herausforderungen bereithalten – ganz besonders dann, wenn die Patienten an so genannten „seltenen Erkrankungen“ leiden, über die oftmals sogar Fachleute nur wenig wissen.
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[New possibilities provided by the internet in medicine]
Meskó B, Dubecz A. Orvosi Hetilap, 148(44)
The importance of the internet and some new generation services of the web (so-called web 2.0) is exponentially growing. As web 2.0 is based on collaboration, feedback and communities, it can ease the work of physicians. The authors give a short overview of the web 2.0 tools created for physicians.
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New technology allows patients to share their medical images via the internet
Rosa Lin, Medill Reports
“Frank has been in a car accident away from home. He’s flown to a trauma center from another facility, and surgeons are working against the clock to keep him alive. They want to perform a crucial operation, but they need medical images from his Chicago doctors.
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Internet Therapie: Leipziger Forscher behandeln Patienten mit Essstörungen
e-Health-com News
“Wissenschaftler der Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie des Universitätsklinikums Leipzig haben eine Internettherapie entwickelt, die speziell auf die Essstörung “Binge Eating” ausgerichtet ist.
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Trust between patients and health websites: a review of the literature and derived outcomes from empirical studies
Vega LC et al, Health and Technology, 2011
With the exploding growth of the web, health websites have become a dominant force in the realm of health care. Technically savvy patients have been using the web not only to self inform but to self diagnose. In this paper we examine the trust relationship between humans and health websites by outlining the existing literature on trust in health websites. A total of 49 papers were examined using a meta-analytical framework.
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Wie Web 2.0 die Kommunikation im Gesundheitswesen fördern kann
Heike Unverhau, Health Care meets Social Media
“Sind auch Sie ein ePatient? Wenn sie Informationen zu Gesundheitsthemen online abrufen, dann gehören auch Sie zu der immer grösser werdenden Gruppe an Menschen, die in Ergänzung zu den klassischen Informationsmedien auch im Internet nach Informationen über Krankheiten und Behandlungsmethoden suchen.
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4 key takeaways from Healthgrades’ 2011 quality report
Michelle McNickle, Healthcare Finance News
“Healthgrades, an independent source of physician information and hospital quality outcomes, recently released its 2011 Healthcare Consumerism and Hospital Quality in America report, which documented patient outcomes at almost 5,000 American hospitals.
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[Health 2.0 for psychiatrists]
Hoekstra R. Tijdschrift Voor Psychiatrie, 53(10)
Background
The internet used to be mainly ‘one-way traffic’ (1.0). Nowadays it is becoming easy for internet users to communicate with each other via the web (2.0).
Aim
To describe the concept of Health 2.0 and to explore the possibilities of 2.0-technology for psychiatry.
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Educating the patient: challenges and opportunities with current technology
Gordon J. The Nursing Clinics of North America, 46(3)
Patients using the Internet are inundated with abundant information on health care that may be correct and may be incorrect. It is becoming the role of clinicians to enable patients to educate themselves by providing information about accurate and reliable Web sites, and to answer questions from literature that patients encounter.
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Patient web portals to improve diabetes outcomes: a systematic review
Osborn CY et al, Current Diabetes Reports, 10(6)
Patient web portals (PWPs), defined as the integration of electronic medical records and patient health records, have been related to enhanced patient outcomes. A literature review was conducted to characterize the design and evaluation of PWPs to improve health care processes and outcomes in diabetes.
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