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Winston ER et al, Computers in Human Behavior, 2012
Decreasing revenues and increasing expenses has led many healthcare organizations to adopt newer technological applications in order to address the informational needs of their patients. One such adoption technique is to develop a more robust e-patient environment. Health care organizations may increase their effectiveness in meeting the needs of a growing e-patient population through the implementation of high-quality social networking applications such as Twitter. These applications may help to support and maintain a valuable and informed community.
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6 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): e-patient, Information Management, Online Communities, social-network, Twitter
Trajkovik V et al, Health and Technology, 2012
Adoption of mobile devices and technology in the field of medical monitoring and personal health care systems is very important nowadays, especially when it comes to certain categories of people with chronicle diseases who need 24 hour access to medical care. The collaborative Information system model we present in this paper, gives a new dimension in the usage of novel technologies in healthcare. Using mobile, web and broadband technologies enable the citizens to have ubiquity of support services where ever they may be.
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6 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Algorithms, Classification, mHealth, Personal Health Systems, social-network
Stead Burwell, MedGadget
“Studies show online support groups foster positive health outcomes, including escalating good, healthy habits. People are much more likely to achieve their health goals when paired-up with others who have similar goals. Healthy habits, such as eating right, sharing best practices and exercising, can truly go viral if the proper networks are established for the right information to be passed on.
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31 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Connected Health, e-patient, Health Information, social-network
e-Health-com News
“Eine von Swisscom in Auftrag gegebene Studie zeigt, dass Patienten ihre Diagnosen vermehrt online überprüfen und ihren Arzt auf die Informationen aus dem Netz ansprechen.
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31 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Switzerland | Tag(s): Health Information, Online, Patient, social-network
Adrienne Burke, Forbes
“Self-obsessed citizen scientists who use gadgets like the FitBit and Up by Jawbone to track their own health data and engage in group experiments online have piqued media interest of late. Now a doctor has endorsed the power of this emerging trend.
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6 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): mHealth, smartphone, social-network
Brian Wheeler, BBC News
“Sickweather claims to be different because it operates in real time using data from social networks, rather than news reports or internet search terms, and is designed for use by individuals, rather than public health officials. It has already been dubbed “Facebook for hypochondriacs”.
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18 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK, United States | Tag(s): Crowd-sourcing, Disease Surveillance, pandemics, social-network, Website
Luke Gale, CMIO
“A commentary published by the Journal of the American Medical Association proposes ways in which the U.S. can affordably meet the needs and expectations of both the public and healthcare providers as an interconnected system of EHRs is developed at the national level.
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16 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Interoperability, Networks, social-network
Chomutare T et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(3)
Background:
Interest in mobile health (mHealth) applications for self-management of diabetes is growing. In July 2009, we found 60 diabetes applications on iTunes for iPhone; by February 2011 the number had increased by more than 400% to 260. Other mobile platforms reflect a similar trend. Despite the growth, research on both the design and the use of diabetes mHealth applications is scarce. Furthermore, the potential influence of social media on diabetes mHealth applications is largely unexplored.
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7 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Diabetes, Education, mHealth, Monitoring, phr, Self Management, social-network
CMIO
“Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital explored the characteristics of social media sites for diabetics and the potential of them to promote patient health.
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3 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Diabetes, Disease Management, social-network, Website
Shrank WH et al, Arch Intern Med, 171(17)
With the exponential growth of Facebook and other social networking sites, patients are increasingly seeking information and emotional support online, from other patients. Recent qualitative studies highlight the great potential that online social networks represent as a source of information and encouragement in chronic disease management. However, recent research has also identified potential pitfalls in these unregulated sites.
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30 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Diabetes, social-network
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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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Internet, Physician-Patient Relationship, social-network
Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“Emerging technological and societal developments have brought new challenges for the protection of personal data and individuals’ rights.
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13 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Data Protection, DNA, Legal, social-network
fllordachs, Una de Médicos
“De un tiempo a esta parte, como si fuese algo lógico, se habla mucho del e-paciente y su empoderamiento como algo inexorable (que probablemente lo es, en base al paso del tiempo y a la modificación de los hábitos de la población en materia de conectividad y llamémosle habilidad digital). También se considera (o esa es la postura) algo sin duda cercano, de para ayer, porque los americanos, y tal, y tal… Incluso se ha puesto de acuerdo una buena parte de la blogosfera-twittesfera sanitaria española para componer a n-manos un libro de distribución gratuíta,
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6 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tag(s): Digital Divide, Empowerment, Health Information, Online Communities, Patient, Physicians, social-network, Usability
Linda McSweeny, MJA Insight
“Concerns have been raised about a social networking site where patients can compare symptoms and treatments even though it has the potential to become a revolutionary tool for medical research.
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5 September 2011 | 1 Comment »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Online Communities, Social Media, social-network
Trevena LJ. The Medical Journal of Australia, 195
In 2004, Ben and Jamie Heywood launched a social networking site called PatientsLikeMe (PLM) (http://www.patientslikeme.com). They were motivated by their younger brother Stephen’s tragic journey with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and the desire to connect and share information with other ALS sufferers. Members of the PLM community create a profile to record and track their health over time, including quality of life, symptom control, and treatments and their efficacy and side effects. Members can also connect through online discussion, and the site has over 110 000 members with a counter on the homepage rising every few minutes.
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5 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Online Communities, Patient, Social Media, social-network
Marsh AJ et al, Future Visions on Biomedicine and Bioinformatics 1, 2011
Web 3.0 is fast approaching. The European Union Future Internet Assembly, the roadmap for the Web heading towards semantic interoperability and building on the UK’s adoption of the Internet and social media are accelerating this development. A number of health portals are opening, some with facilities for the capture of Patient Based Records. Collective Intelligence will be generated that, applied to health, has potential to support Public Health policy. By using the Internet, millions of people in the course of their daily activities contribute to uncertified data stores, some explicitly collaborating to create collective knowledge bases, some contributing implicitly through the patterns of their choices and actions.
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4 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: UK | Tag(s): Health Information, Internet, Public Health, Semantic, social-network, Web 2.0
Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“Medical website Doctors.net.uk has been bought by US physician network M3 Inc. The acquisition, worth £13.4m according to Bloomberg, was completed last month.
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2 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK, United States | Tag(s): Physicians, social-network
Katharine Gammon, Technology Review
“A social network that doctors can prescribe to their patients: that’s the idea behind a new San Diego startup called Wellaho. The company creates software to manage and support patients after they leave the hospital by bringing together different parts of a patient’s support system.
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31 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): integration, Patient, social-network
Ron Winslow, Wall Street Journal
“When Katherine Leon began feeling crushing chest pain six weeks after the birth of her second child, doctors were perplexed about what was causing her symptoms.
Ms. Leon was then 38 years old and healthy, and doctors didn’t believe she was having a heart attack.
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31 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Orphan Disease, Research, social-network
Brandom BW. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 86(9)
In the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Tweet et al describe a novel solution to a perpetual problem that clinical researchers must address: How can researchers effectively and ethically identify and recruit adequate numbers of research participants, particularly if the research protocol involves participants having a rare condition? Absent such recruitment, a study will fail.
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31 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Orphan Disease, Research, social-network
