Information therapy goes beyond evidenced-based info

“I had a fun meeting recently with some smart folks from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that raised questions about Ix that could use some clarification. When we talk about information therapy (Ix), we often drift into “evidence-based information” to help with some specific health condition.
That certainly is an important component of Ix, but it’s too limiting in many circumstances. When we talk about the “proactive delivery of the right information to the right person at the right time,” that has to encompass whatever the information needs of the consumer are.”
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Joshua Seidman, The Health Care Blog, 23 July 2008

Quotes from ICMCC 2008 Keynotes

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Information Therapy Event Covers Policy to Profits

“Ideas ranging from Twitter as a clinical tool to helping a diabetic plan meals with radio frequency transmitters bubbled up last week during the Seventh annual Information Therapy Conference in Washington, D.C.”
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat, 19 June 2008

Information Therapy and the Empowered Patient

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Aniruddha Malpani, The Patient’s Doctor, 7 April 2008

Health 2.0, Ix and PCHIT

“Scott Shreve interviewed several of the panelists for the Health 2.0 conference prior to the event, and posted them on his Crossover Healthcare blog. Visit there for an overview of some of my thoughts on in the intersection of Health 2.0, information therapy, and patient-centered HIT.”
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Josh Seidman, PCHIT, 7 March 2008

Information therapy: The strategic role of prescribed information in disease self-management

Molly Mettler, MSW; Donald W. Kemper, MSIE, MPH
Healthwise, Incorporated

Abstract

Imagine this: evidence-based medical information specifically written for and prescribed to a patient with chronic illness, targeted to that patient’s specific “moment in care” and designed to help that patient manage his or her illness. Imagine “information therapy” built into every clinical encounter that a patient has with a physician or other health care service.

Information therapy is defined as the timely prescription and availability of evidence-based health information to meet individuals’ specific needs and support sound decision making.

Information therapy is a new disease management tool that provides cost-effective disease management support to a much larger portion of the chronically ill population than is generally reached.

This paper is a practical presentation of information therapy, its role in predictive modeling and disease self-management, and its potential for improving the outcomes of chronic care.