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ConferencesNone Yet Accepted AbstractsMedicine 2.0'13 (London, UK)Can Internet Applications Help with Feeding Babies? A Study of Online Social Support Amongst Breastfeeding Women. Background: The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognises breastfeeding as the natural way to feed infants and young children. Babies’ benefits from breastfeeding include reduced infant morbidity from gastrointestinal, respiratory, urinary tract and less atopic illness. Mothers also benefit from breastfeeding including reducing postpartum haemorrhage, lower risk of premenopausal breast cancer, lower risk of ovarian cancer and enhanced attachment to the infant. However despite the benefits... Tools for Sustaining the Support of Health Professionals: the Example of MyPace Background: the NHS needs to do more with less. Suggested solutions are many and various but they invariably involve decreased contact with health professionals. Yet continued trust and confidence is desired in healthcare systems where 10 minute appointments might turn into 60 second consultations. Monitoring increasingly means being remote. In the face of a tide of initiatives that seek increased patient participation in the context of decreasing engagement with health professionals, ... Patients’ Access to Online Medical Records by 2015 in the UK: An Analysis of Comments by Online Newspaper Readers Background: On 29th November 2011, the government in the United Kingdom (UK) suggested that by 2015 patients’ should have access to online medical records (OMRs) held by their general practitioners (GPs) in the National Health Service (NHS). In the recent past, a similar initiative known as the Summary Case Records (SCR) program did not succeed in the NHS in England due to several issues including limited evidence of clinical benefits, low uptake and use at the secondary care level, patie... Published WithThis user's work may be related toPrivacy settings prevent us from displaying this information. |
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