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Ten Ways Patients Get Treated Better

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From wireless EKGs to customer service, small steps aim to heal the whole person.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Health-care innovations aren’t limited to drugs and devices. Experts increasingly are adopting new ways to treat patients that studies show are better at healing the sick, preventing disease, improving patients’ quality of life and lowering costs. Here are 10 innovations that took root in 2012 and are changing the care patients will get in 2013.

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Peer-to-peer healthcare at internet speed and scale.

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Peer-to-peer healthcare is a way for people to do what they have always done – lend a hand, lend an ear, lend advice – but at internet speed and at internet scale.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

If you enable an environment in which people can share, they will.

And the benefits of that sharing will entice others to join. That’s peer-to-peer health care – and it works!

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The dynamics of a Twitter Patient Community – Network Centrality Analysis

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Video of a dynamic network centrality analysis visualization of the conversations within the a Twitter patient community – #rheum. Twitter Visualized.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Of all the various patient community options online, does Twitter have certain attributes that better resemble some real-world communities?

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I am a big fan of Evernote and so it is interesting to read this doctor’s use of the application in his professional practice

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Like many professional people doctors must keep track of a lot of information. From beginning of December 2012, all GMC registered doctors must engage with 5 yearly revalidation cycle.  Annual appraisal has been in place since 2004 after the Shipman scandal and its aftermath, the legal requirement for revalidation has only now been enacted.

Many different systems are available to doctors to choose from for keeping track of the required documents and learning. The Royal Medical Colleges have systems for their members (e.g. RCGP ePortfolio), the NHS has encouraged a toolkit, and some household names in medical press (eg GP, BMJ eLearning) have also jumped on the bandwagon.

However, after trying out several I have purchased the premium version of Evernote.  Evernote suits my style of learning and integrates easily with all the devices used for work and play – Windows Home PC, laptop…

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