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.
[ More ]
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Patients can benefit by getting a variety of healthcare information electronically–as these seven options prove.
[ More ]
Nrip Nihalani and Aditya Patkar
“Technology must look to create multiple ways to facilitate both formal and informal Patient- Doctor Communication. The telephone made a huge impact on the way we communicate, and so did email.
[ More ]
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.”
[ More ]
Don Kemper, eHealth Initiative Blog
“In 2002, Molly Mettler and I coauthored the book, Information Therapy. Shortly thereafter, Healthwise created the Center for Information Therapy (Ix Center) and the Ix Action Alliance to strengthen the delivery of health care—through the art, science, and practice of prescribing the right information to the right person at the right time.
[ More ]
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.
[ More ]
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.
[ More ]
Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“Despite the personalized attention I get in our pediatrician’s office and their general responsiveness to calls — both to their own nurse call line and during on-call hours — I find certain aspects of this 20th-century practice frustrating. The most important ongoing issue relates (not surprisingly) to the one chronic condition we have to manage: The intermittent asthma of my youngest son, 5-year-old Ryan.
[ More ]
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.
[ More ]
Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“I find it interesting that the blogosphere continues to discuss the “false dichotomy” of our “Health 2.0 Meets Information Therapy (Ix)” Conference.
[ More ]
Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“My meeting experience using Cisco’s TelePresence technology brought new meaning to the phrase “just like being there.”
[ More ]
Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“I was asked to write an article for the June issue of the Journal of AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association).
[ More ]
Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog
“The video crew from ICYOU has done a great job of capturing insights from lots of innovative thinkers were part of our Ix-Health 2.0 Conference two weeks ago.
[ More ]
John Sharp, eHealth
“Two recent postings shining more light on Health 2.0. Specifically, a European post on Health 2.0 and Information Therapy, the joint topics for the Boston conference. He notes that both are an “enhance the patient care and the patient provider relationship.”
[ More ]
Gilles Frydman, e-patients.net
“I have been following with real interest the notes and discussions about the Health 2.0/Ix conference that took place in Boston last week.
[ More ]
Michael Millenson, The Health Care Blog
“I was staring at the program cover for the special joint conference between Health 2.0 and the Center for Information Therapy going on here in Boston when a sudden realization jumped out at me:
[ More ]
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“So the party’s over, the buntings are down, the #health2con tweets—more than 3,000 of them—are drying up but recorded here, and the Health 2.0 & Ix teams have returned to their respective coasts. Even though this is the smaller of the two annual Health 2.0 Conferences, because we were co-hosting this one with Ix, it was not a small event.
[ More ]
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.
[ More ]
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.
[ More ]
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.
[ More ]
