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Category Archives: Health Information Technology: Mobile Health
Blue Shield of California Foundation: Patient-Provider Relationships Among Low-Income Califorians
The Blue Shield of California Foundation has published the results of its survey of low-income Californians and their perspectives on connectedness and continuity with their health care providers. • Low-income patients broadly report that they want their care to be … Continue reading
Health 2.0: High Wow Factor, High Hopes for the Future of Health Care
I just spent the past two days at the 2011 Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco being wowed and a bit overwhelmed, in a whole different universe than either the community-based organization or public policy environments I am used to. … Continue reading
CDC: Social Media Guidelines and Best Practices
As more health organizations begin to use social media tools, it is important to have clear policies and procedures for how the staff, consumers, patients and general public will communicate and interact the organization using social media. The Centers for … Continue reading
CDC: Social Media Toolkit
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has produced this useful toolkit on how to use social media for effective communication related to health and health care. The toolkit notes: “Social media and other emerging communications technologies can connect … Continue reading
CDC: eHealth and mHealth Data Briefs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has useful fact sheets with updated data on how various communications and information technologies can support health. The fact sheets include data on online health information seekers, mobile internet usage, text messaging, … Continue reading
Consumer Health Information Corporation: Motivating Consumers to Use Smartphone Health Apps
This report of the results of an online survey conducted by the Consumer Health Information Corporation includes some interesting findings about smartphone mobile technologies and their uses for exchanging health information and engaging patients. Online survey responses were collected from … Continue reading
First Quantified Self Conference May 28-29, 2011
The first Quantified Self Conference will be held on May 28-29, 2011 in Mountain View, CA. The term “quantified self” has been defined as using a computer, mobile phone, electronic gadget, or pen and paper to record one’s own work … Continue reading
National Telecommunications & Information Administration: Digital Nation – Expanding Internet Usage
This report from the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration provides updated data on internet and broadband access among Americans. Data from October 2010 shows that more than 68% of U.S. households use high-speed broadband services. Yet significant … Continue reading
Kaiser’s Permanente Journal: Social Media and the Health System
In this commentary published in Kaiser’s Permanente Journal, the authors describe the potential uses of social media to disseminate and acquire information, and to build trust among health care providers and patients. The increasing pervasiveness of social media is … Continue reading
World Health Organization: eHealth Country Profiles 2010
This report from the World Health Organization contains self-reported profiles from 114 countries (59% of WHO member states) about their respective implementation of health information and communications technologies (HICT). It is telling that this term, which includes “communication”, is … Continue reading
