Ericka L. Adler, Physicians Practice
“When I interact with my clients concerning EHRs, it’s typically on issues concerning integration or cost. As a health lawyer, I understand the privacy and technological benefits that EHRs promise to bring to a medical practice.
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Chris Foster, Government Health IT
“Much like other advances in health information technology (HIT) such as electronic health records and telemedicine, social media is changing how doctors and patients interact. Social media empowers patients to seek out information, make more informed decisions, and partner with their health care providers on managing their care.
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Edgar Camelo, TICBeat
“La revolución tecnológica que estamos viviendo abarca todos los aspectos de la sociedad, incluidas, por supuesto, la medicina y la salud.
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John Whyte, HuffingtonPost
“I’ll be honest — I like technology and gadgets! When used correctly, they certainly can improve medical care. For the past 15 years of providing clinical care, I have often used an electronic health record when interacting with patients.
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David Lee Scher, KevinMD
“1. Mobile health technology will increase patient engagement. Most patients do not take the responsibility they should for their own health. They are likely preoccupied with all the stresses of everyday life and might therefore take the ‘I feel good, so I must be’ approach.
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Angela Haupt, US News
“Thomas Lee’s business cards are stamped with the link to his Facebook page. The orthopedic surgeon actively tweets, checks in regularly on FourSquare, and maintains a GooglePlus profile. And he does it for his patients.
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le monde de la e-santé
“Internet a dans le domaine de la santé, trouvé toute son efficacité, auprès de ceux qui au départ n’avaient pas ou peu de moyens de s’informer sur un traitement, des symptômes, ou plus généralement concernant l’actualité médicale.
Par le biais des espaces de discussions que peuvent être les forums ou les blogs, le web et vite devenu le « compagnon » du grand public pour les questions de santé.
En effet, 7 jours sur 7, 24 heures sur 24, il permet à chacun de répondre à un manque d’information, à une inquiétude liée à l’accompagnement d’un proche, ou même pour trouver quelque réconfort face à une maladie.
Puis de la recherche d’information, on est vite passé au besoin de s’exprimer, d’échanger ses craintes et ses espoirs, voir ses opinions sur les traitements prescrits et les diagnostics.”
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le monde de la e-santé, 18 November 2011
Salma Patel, #nhssm
“Over the past six months, I have seen first hand the benefits of using social media (in particular Twitter) to interact, engage and build relationships outside of my own professional circle.
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Kent Bottles, KevinMD
“The digital age has had a deep and likely permanent effect on the patient-physician relationship. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had physicians beg me to provide them with a way to stop their patients from Googling their symptoms and diagnosing themselves before their first office visit and much to their chagrin, my answer is always the same, “You can’t stop them. Get over it.”
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Gregory Kiray, Cerner
“A Patient-Centered Medical Home is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care. It facilitates partnerships between individuals as patients and their personal providers while providing better access to health care and increasing satisfaction. A medical home is a sophisticated primary care practice where technology is utilized with services to enhance the doctor-patient relationship and bring additional teammates into the care of patients.
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Lisa Collier Cool, healthymagination
“Have you texted your doctor lately? 9 million Americans have done so, while another 17 million have emailed their healthcare providers and 6 million have sent instant messages, according to a new survey by Manhattan Research, unveiled at the HealthWeb Leadership Forum in New York City on October 6.
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Toño G. Parada, TGPSite
“Este fin de semana se ha celebrado “Unirede”, el foro gallego de la web 2.0. Una cita que llevaba tiempo esperando y a la que realmente me apetecía asistir. Aplaudo la iniciativa, solo los que han estado detrás de la organización de un acto de este tipo, saben lo que cuesta ponerlo en marcha.
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Stewart Segal, KevinMD
“The art of practicing medicine is dying, soon to be replaced by the art of template medicine.
Modern medicine is based on laudable terms: “quality,” “outcomes,” “cost effective,” and “evidence based medicine,” which all sound good when sold in infomercials to the medical world and public. When examined closely, all are vague and open to abuse.
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David Lee Scher, MD
“There are many benefits of mHealth technology to physicians It will increase patient engagement, it will provide data and input from patients on a continuum of time (versus the snapshot of office encounters), it is mobile, it will make office or telehealth conferencing more meaningful, and it will improve the physician-patient relationship (see http://davidleescher.com/2011/10/10/five-reasons-why-physicians-will-love-mhealth/ ).
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David Lee Scher, MD
“An estimated 75% of physicians have either an iPhone or iPad. They are adopting EHR technology and are busier than ever. Mobile health promotes patients as partners in healthcare and a coordinated care effort involving the patient, caregiver, and provider.
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Bosslet GT et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2011
BACKGROUND:
The use of online social networks (OSNs) among physicians and physicians-in-training, the extent of patient-doctor interactions within OSNs, and attitudes among these groups toward use of OSNs is not well described.
OBJECTIVE:
To quantify the use of OSNs, patient interactions within OSNs, and attitudes toward OSNs among medical students (MS), resident physicians (RP), and practicing physicians (PP) in the United States.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“In yesterday’s post about the Consumer Health IT Summit, I noted how access to data plus the trusted relationships around it are important.
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Danielle Ofri, The New York Times
“Despite being considered by some as a hospital of last resort, the sprawling city hospital where I’ve spent 20 years is at the forefront of electronic trends. Although some hospitals are computerized, most do not have fully functional electronic medical records, as promoted by the health care reform law of 2010.
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Bob Evans, Forbes
“Concerned that doctors’ “clinical skills will be lost among the ‘downloads’ and ‘uploads’,” a British physician practicing in the U.S. asks, “Has the iPad replaced the stethoscope?”
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3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“I’ve lost count of the number of men who genuinely ask me “What can a Doctor possibly do over a mobile video call?” and in some cases actually argue with me about the existence of the need (“no one would ever want to video consult with a Doctor”). I’ve even had this happen at mHealth events in front of a room full of paying delegates (eg. Saadi Hussain, Head of Commercial Propositions, BT) yet I’ve never been asked this by a woman.
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