Melissa Burden, The Detroit News
“Michiganians who have an urgent medical question, lack insurance or just want access to a doctor and prescription after hours can increasingly reach for their phones or computers for an instant chat or webcam conversation with a physician or nurse.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“More than 80% of clinicians and patients want to see online GP services such as repeat prescribing requesting and appointment booking, a survey of almost 3,000 patients and health professionals has found.
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Cranen K et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2011
Objective:
This study aims to investigate whether patients’ perceptions regarding a Web-based telemedicine service, for instruction and monitoring of an exercise program, change after brief use.
Materials and Methods:
Thirty patients were allocated, matched on gender and age, to a control group (10) or an experimental group (20). After basic training, the experimental group was given a 15 min opportunity to use a Web-based telemedicine service. Patients’ perceptions regarding the telemedicine service were measured using a questionnaire, based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). This questionnaire was administered to both the control and experimental group before and after the experimental group’s intervention. Both groups were compared with respect to any change in perceptions related to the Web-based telemedicine service.
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Ronnette Lucraft, Guardian Professional
“When NHS Direct was first launched as a telephone service in 1998 it was ground breaking for the NHS, which had been seen predominantly as a face-to-face deliverer of healthcare. The NHS Direct website followed a year after the telephone service, but it wasn’t until 2008, when we launched our first online health and symptom checker for colds and flu, that we first saw how significant the digital element of our service really was.
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Aaron J. Stupple, KevinMD
“In the midst of this rapidly progressing technologic era, our delivery of medical services is being transformed by health information technology (HIT), electronic medical records (EMR), and advanced telecommunications. In meeting criteria for “meaningful use,” physicians are driven to use these technologies to empower patients with communication through electronic medical records.
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Cugelman B et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(1)
Background:
Researchers and practitioners have developed numerous online interventions that encourage people to reduce their drinking, increase their exercise, and better manage their weight. Motivations to develop eHealth interventions may be driven by the Internet’s reach, interactivity, cost-effectiveness, and studies that show online interventions work. However, when designing online interventions suitable for public campaigns, there are few evidence-based guidelines, taxonomies are difficult to apply, many studies lack impact data, and prior meta-analyses are not applicable to large-scale public campaigns targeting voluntary behavioral change.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Health consumers are at least as keen to access their medical history online as they are to manage other aspects of their personal lives. Intuit, the people who brought Quicken to the market to help consumers manage their personal financial lives, are keen to do the same for health care.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“The recent deadline for comments on ONC’s MU Stage 2 proposal has resulted in a lot of attention on how providers are reacting to the latest ideas of federal policymakers.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“GP representatives have warned doctors to check the confidentiality of patient data submitted when patients use online services on practice websites.
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Suzanne Hoholik, The Columbus Dispatch
“Unlike banks and utility companies, health-care providers have been slow to give up paper and phone calls for electronic health records and e-mail.
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Gaynor M et al, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 3(3/4)
This paper discusses how to share medical information between heterogeneous applications via web services. Our design theory is based on a real-options framework, performance analysis and experience building iRevive, a working web-services-enabled pre-hospital documentation application.
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Sarkar U et al, Journal of Health Communication, 15 (Supp 2)
Internet-based patient portals are intended to improve access and quality, and will play an increasingly important role in health care, especially for diabetes and other chronic diseases. Diabetes patients with limited health literacy have worse health outcomes, and limited health literacy may be a barrier to effectively utilizing internet-based health access services. We investigated use of an internet-based patient portal among a well characterized population of adults with diabetes. We estimated health literacy using three validated self-report items. We explored the independent association between health literacy and use of the internet-based patient portal, adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and income.
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BusinessWire India
“pinkWhale Healthcare Services, today announced the launch of its comprehensive range of services for individuals who would like to consult Specialists and doctors remotely for their health ailments. pinkWhale’s integrated personal healthcare solutions allow users access to doctors anytime and anywhere, by providing facilities like – ‘Call a Doc’ (consultation over the phone) or ‘Web Consult (Live chat with the doctor) ’.
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Maria Cheng, Associated Press
“In Britain, an increasing number of websites are pushing the boundaries of online medicine, with at least a dozen sites offering consultations and medication most countries only allow during in-person visits — or remote ones with the help of a webcam or telephone call.
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Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider
“A think tank has called for people to be given the option to register with the NHS nationally rather than with a GP in order to speed up the adoption of online services.
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Adrian O’Dowd, BMJ
“A tool is being launched that will allow doctors to access hundreds of pieces of research into how to engage patients and the public in health care.
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Yellowlees, Peter, and Najia Nafi, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 18(2)
The core doctor-patient relationship is changing and becoming more fluid. Many factors are causing the changes, but they are being underpinned by the current technological revolution, which has spawned terms such as e-patients, health 2.0, participatory medicine, and virtual medicine in cyberspace. The Internet is being used so creatively and commonly by both patients and doctors that it has become literally a “part” of the doctor-patient relationship. To explore how the psychiatrist-patient relationship is changing, five simple questions are examined: How are patient expectations and behaviors changing? Who is using the Internet for mental health care?
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Direct aims to shift a ‘substantial amount’ of its work from the telephone to the web next year, its chief executive has revealed.
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Denise Silber, Silber's Blog
“Selon un article du 29 Oct 2009, sur le site de l’e-commerce, 47% des internautes français aimeraient pouvoir prendre par internet leur prochain rendez-vous de consultation, 62% souhaiteraient recevoir les résultats des examens médicaux,
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Joel Bailey, HSJ
“Technology is a facilitator to effective service delivery. One of the most common complaints about NHS services is that they take place away from home, but digital tools take healthcare to where patients are rather than vice versa. If a service is available online or can be downloaded, users don’t have to come into the clinic to get information.
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