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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Tu HT. HSChange Tracking Report No. 26, 2011
In 2010, 50 percent of American adults sought information about a personal health concern, down from 56 percent in 2007, according to a new national study from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). The likelihood of people seeking information from the Internet and from friends and relatives changed little between 2007 and 2010, but their use of hardcopy books, magazines and newspapers dropped by nearly half to 18 percent.
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Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“While parents commonly use the Internet to learn about pediatric health problems, little is known about how often they seek out this information, and how they use it prior to seeking medical care.
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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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Steve, EMR Daily News
“Apixio Inc., a provider of clinical integration and search solutions for private health data, and Chinese Community Health Care Association (CCHCA), a provider of healthcare to the community of San Francisco
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Martin Young, KevinMD
“Things have been a bit tough of late, the bad economy is starting to bite, and you’re feeling the pressure. To top it all, your body has been acting strangely in ways it never has before. Your muscles twitch in funny areas for hours at a time, you tire easily, and you have fleeting pins and needles in your limbs.
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Katherine Harmon, Scientific American
“It doesn’t take much imagination to think of ways in which all of the data being recorded into electronic health records (EHRs) could be used study diseases and map trends. One of the problems in putting this data to work, however, is that these forms are not uniformly maintained—and the more structured sections with standardized codes lack nuance and might even be misleading, according to some researchers.
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Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“We have been working extremely hard to redesign the whole site on Webicina.com and introduce a brand new search engine that is powered by Weblib PolySearch Search Engine. They did an excellent job with this clustering search tool and now it’s much easier to find the selected medical social media resources you are looking for.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“HON vient de publier les résultats de son enquête réalisée au printemps dernier sur les recherches santé des internautes : « How Do General Public Search Online Health Information? ». Analyse.
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Dean Stephens, Search Engine Watch
“Recently, Google announced that it will close Google Health to new consumers on January 1, 2012 and that the service will be retired a year later. Google Health was much different than Google as a search engine; it required that consumers use their site to upload their personal health data and store this in a personal health record (PHR).
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“The problem with Internet searches is that they inherently turn up too much information – much of it unnecessary or, worse, inaccurate. When the subject is healthcare, that so-called “information overflow” can turn out to be dangerous.
OrganizedWisdom would like to solve that problem.
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Linda Davidson, e-Health Insider Acute
“We have only just scratched the surface in developing information technology to optimise radiology practice, this week’s UKRC conference in Manchester has been told.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“IBM has announced an expansion of its Analytics Solutions Centre, in Dallas, to connect US medical data to mobile electronic health records (EHRs) using natural-language processing and technology similar to that used with its Watson supercomputer.
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Brunsman-Johnson C et al, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2011
Purpose.
This article describes website information seeking strategies used by users who are blind and compares those with sighted users. It outlines how assistive technologies and website design can aid users who are blind while information seeking.
Method.
People who are blind and sighted are tested using an assessment tool and performing several tasks on websites. The times and keystrokes are recorded for all tasks as well as commands used and spatial questioning.
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Susannah Fox, Pew Internet
“The internet has changed people’s relationships with information. Our data consistently show that doctors, nurses, and other health professionals continue to be the first choice for most people with health concerns, but online resources, including advice from peers, are a significant source of health information in the U.S.
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Schmickl CN et al, Respiratory Medicine, 2011
Participant recruitment is an important process in successful conduct of randomized controlled trials. To facilitate enrollment into a National Institutes of Health–sponsored clinical trial involving patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we developed and prospectively validated an automated electronic screening tool based on boolean free-text search of admission notes in electronic medical records. During a 2-week validation period, all patients admitted to prespecified general medical services were screened for eligibility by both the electronic screening tool and a COPD nurse. Group discussion was the gold standard for confirmation of true-positive results.
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Shea Steinberg, EHR Bloggers
“Eight in 10 people use the internet to find health-related information. It’s no wonder so many patient support groups and health advice sites are popping up online. 80 percent of adults who use the internet have looked online for health information, according to a recent study by Pew Internet & American Life Project and the California Healthcare Foundation.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Health professionals are go-to sources for medical diagnoses, information about prescription drugs and alternative treatments, and recommendations for doctors and hospitals. On the other hand, health information seekers turn to fellow patients, friends and family for emotional support in dealing with health issues, and quick remedies for everyday issues.
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Zheng K et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 18(3)
Objective
A full-text search engine can be a useful tool for augmenting the reuse value of unstructured narrative data stored in electronic health records (EHR). A prominent barrier to the effective utilization of such tools originates from users’ lack of search expertise and/or medical-domain knowledge. To mitigate the issue, the authors experimented with a ‘collaborative search’ feature through a homegrown EHR search engine that allows users to preserve their search knowledge and share it with others. This feature was inspired by the success of many social information-foraging techniques used on the web that leverage users’ collective wisdom to improve the quality and efficiency of information retrieval.
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Dean Stephens, Search Engine Watch
“You don’t have to look far to know that mobile usage is huge and continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Of the more than 300 million people in the United States, 96 percent have mobile phones. This is staggering to think of when just 15 years ago only 13 percent of the American population had mobile devices, according to CTIA.
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