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ConferencesAttended Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada) Accepted AbstractsMedicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)Improving Patient-Physician Communication about Internet Use: Why “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Doesn’t Work Background: A disconnect currently exists between patients' use of the Internet and their consultations with their physicians. Too often, patients don't tell their physicians about their Internet use and physicians don't ask; both suffer due to the erosion of trust and missed educational opportunities. Better patient-physician communication about Internet use is needed to help patients become truly empowered healthcare consumers. Objectives: Too little attention is paid to improving how pa... Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)Communicating the Experience of Illness through Patient Blogs Background Patient blogs range from New York Times journalist Dana Jennings blogging about his prostate cancer with hundreds of thousands of readers and hundreds of comments to a woman writing about her breast cancer with a small number of readers and few, if any, comments. Thirteen percent of e-patients write a blog about their diagnosis and treatment, where e-patients refers to the 61 percent of US adults who use the Internet for health information. The number of patient bloggers is likely... Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)How Disease-Specific Online Health Communities Differ Between Mobile and Web Access Alliance Health Networks has over one million registered members across 50 social networks and 11 mobile apps. They launched their mobile initiative in February 2011 to extend their social networking capabilities to mobile users. Their first app was for people with diabetes because it was Alliance Health’s first and most active web community. They quickly launched 10 more apps including Sleep and Heart. When the apps were first launched, Alliance Health couldn’t know how web and mobile... Developing a Cohesive Digital Strategy for Metabolic Maintenance Products Metabolic Maintenance Products (MMP), like many companies, started using the web and later social media without a cohesive digital strategy. The aim of this project is to prepare a digital strategy through the use of a structured process that includes the development and use of personas, competitive analysis, and formative evaluation. MMP, a small vitamin manufacturing company in business for twenty-seven years, produces natural nutritional supplements exclusively for physicians. MMP’s... Patient-Provider Collaboration for Patient Safety (Panel) The publication by The Institute of Medicine of "To Err Is Human" may have launched the modern era of patient safety, but patients could reasonably be said to have attended to these issues long before the IOM. Through the courts, lay organizations and most recently on line, patients have taken an active role in patient safety. Unfortunately patient-initiated projects to improve the quality and safety of care have often happened with no engagement or recognition by mainstream professionals. Th... Defining Best Practices for Digital Presences of State Departments of Public Health in the United States Background: State Departments of Public Health (DPH) have three foremost goals: to serve as directories for health information and services, to make available ongoing health education for citizens and to provide alerts for urgent health-related information. While unprecedented unidirectional and reciprocal digital communication is possible through the web, social media, and mobile, many state DPHs make minimal use – or even no use – of these technologies and thus fall far short of their p... Published WithThis user's work may be related to |
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