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How about a Snopes.com for medicine? We could call it … Stetho-Snopes. There’s certainly enough interest in the subject. Gimme My DaM Data!
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Articles
Patients’ Internet use a predictor for participation in their own care
Is there a significant relationship between Internet use frequency and the overall preferences for obtaining health information and decision-making autonomy?
Patients who use the Internet more frequently are more likely to embrace patient-centered healthcare efforts and participate in their own care, according to a study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
For the study, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Florida and the University of Maryland examined Internet use patterns of 438 people. They asked the group two questions:
Is there a significant relationship between Internet use frequency and the overall preferences for obtaining health information and decision-making autonomy?
Does the relationship between Internet use frequency and information and decision-making preferences differ with respect to seven different aspects of health conditions–diagnosis, treatment, laboratory testing, self-care, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), psychosocial aspect and healthcare providers?
According to the researchers, the findings will be important for care efforts moving forward. “When medical professionals attempt to gauge how much information to provide patients or try to decide how much they should involve patients in medical decision-making, they may be better off if they base their decisions on patients’ Internet use frequency rather than age, per se,” they said.
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Google Analytics for the Healthcare Content Writer
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A post on how to leverage Google Analytics to help in all phases of the content writing process.
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Social Media Improves Chronic Disease Care
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Online health communities that include providers as well as patients can improve patient engagement and offer other benefits to both groups, says study.
Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:
A new approach to using social media in healthcare is being pioneered in the Netherlands, according to a study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Focused on chronic disease care, this strategy breaks down the boundaries between online communities for doctors and patients to promote better care and empower patients to take better care of themselves.
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Quantifying Guilt
With dueling stories hitting Newsweek and the New York Times this afternoon, the digital health corner of the world has noticed mainstream media hitting on one of our favorite topics: Quantified Health. The feature piece from Newsweek is their technical cover story, and NYT turned to one of its own technology big guns in David Pogue to author their story.
The coverage of the devices is on par with what we usually see in this topic: wearables, tracking sleep, movement, activity, with apps that can help you get an overall picture of the story.
We’d consider ourselves pretty close to the topic of quantified self, as we’ve watched throughout the year as this topic has continued to rise in media and consumer tech circles. One thing I can say, from observation, is that the value proposition for tracking health is most often positioned as a positive one. Tracking your activity guides…
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Social analytics provides an Rx for the pharmaceutical industry
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According to a 2012 California Healthcare Foundation and Pew Internet study, nearly 60 percent of adults looked online for health information within the previous year. Today’s social media platforms offer a new avenue of information and dialogue, creating a comfortable (and sometimes anonymous) environment for information exchanges. For pharmaceutical companies, this opens up new opportunities to connect with consumers, to communicate the value proposition throughout a product’s lifecycle, and to improve health delivery and outcomes. It sets the foundation to mine information and apply behavioral principles to understand how and why consumers make buying decisions and specific health/lifestyle choices. Even as companies await further clarity from the FDA, there is a way they can get plugged into the social world by sharing the content of their websites and drug- or brand-specific portals.
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The Apomediated World: Regulating Research When Social Media Has Changed Research
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Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:
Social Media, like Facebook and Twitter, are having a profound effect on the way that human subjects research is being conducted. In this article Dan O’Connor argues that traditional research ethics and regulations may not easily translate to the use of social media in human subjects research. Using the conceptual model of apomediation, which describes the peer-to-peer way in which health information is shared via social media, he suggest that we may need to think again about the suitability of current regulations to deal with social media research.
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Internet Use Frequency and Patient-Centered Care: Measuring Patient Preferences for Participation
The Internet is bringing fundamental changes to medical practice through improved access to health information and participation in decision making. However, patient preferences for participation in health care vary greatly. Promoting patient-centered health care requires an understanding of the relationship between Internet use and a broader range of preferences for participation than previously measured.
The Health Information Wants Questionnaire (HIWQ) was administered to gather data about patients’ preferences for the (1) amount of information desired about different aspects of a health condition, and (2) level of decision-making autonomy desired across those same aspects. The study concluded that Internet use frequency has a positive relationship with the overall preferences for obtaining health information and decision-making autonomy, but its relationship with different types of preferences varies. These findings have important implications for medical practice.
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Top 10 countries where doctors go digital
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Stats from Switzerland, Canada, France, USA, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and the Netherlands.
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