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Medical applications for smartphones and tablets are so ubiquitous that it’s easy to become a victim of app overload. Here’s a look at FDA-approved apps, reference apps, and apps that FPs are “prescribing.”
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Do patients’ reports of their health care experiences reflect the quality of care? Despite the increasing role of such measures in research and policy, there’s no consensus regarding their legitimacy in quality assessment. Indeed, as physician and hospital compensation becomes increasingly tied to patient feedback, health care providers and academics are raising strong objections to the use of patient-experience surveys. These views are fueled by studies indicating that patient-experience measures at best have no relation to the quality of delivered care and at worst are associated with poorer patient outcomes. Conversely, other studies have found that better patient experiences — even more than adherence to clinical guidelines — are associated with better outcomes. Which conclusion is correct? We believe that when designed and administered appropriately, patient-experience surveys provide robust measures of quality, and our efforts to assess patient experiences should be redoubled.
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — The Patient Experience and Health Outcomes
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By accessing their medical records, patients can participate more actively in the care they receive, argues Dr Amir Hannan
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Healthcare has some of the best stories ever told. That’s why House & Grey’s Anatomy have such rave reviews. But does your digital content display the same?
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A panel at the Medicine 2.0 congress on patients blogs was extremely enlightening.They share why patients blog and why they did not share with their MDs.
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To assess factors related to use and non-use of a sophisticated interactive preventive health record (IPHR) designed to promote uptake of 18 recommended clinical preventive services; little is known about how patients want to use or be engaged by such advanced information tools.
In addition to patients’ stated desires for advanced functionality and information accuracy and privacy, successful adoption of the IPHRs by primary care patients depends on such technology’s relevance, and on its promotion via integration with primary care practices’ processes and the patient–clinician relationship. Accordingly, models of technological success and adoption, when applied to primary care, may need to include the patient–clinician relationship and practice workflow. These findings are important for healthcare providers, the information technology industry and policymakers who share an interest in encouraging patients to use personal health records.
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Little is known about the quality of health information in social contexts or how socio-emotional factors impact users’ evaluations of quality. We explored how librarians, nurses and users assessed the quality of health answers posted on Yahoo!
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This study explores the attitudes and understanding of undergraduate medical students towards professionalism, with a specific focus on online behaviour.
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Video produced by Akron Children’s Hospital focussing on the growing number of families using social media as their primary source for health and wellness information and advice.
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iMedicalApps attended the Health:Refactored conference where the key messages shared by leaders from Microsoft, Allscripts, FDA are discussed
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