The challenges facing healthcare are tremendous. They include sharply increasing cost and demand, combined with a shortage of primary-care providers and widespread budget cuts. And yet, Lucien Engelen argues, the system is moving too slowly toward the only real solution: inviting patients to take a more active role in their own care.
Archive for June, 2012
Susannah Fox: In survey data, watching web and healthcare culture shift
In 2002, Susannah Fox and her colleagues at the Pew Internet & American Life Project first identified “the broadband difference.”
They discovered, through simple phone surveys, that people with access to high-speed connections took part in about seven online activities each day, whereas their counterparts subjected to the beeps and buzzes of a dial-up wait took part in only three. Unsurprisingly, those who faced lower barriers to use were more likely to turn to the web to answer questions or solve problems.
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Medicine X is a catalyst for new ideas about the future of medicine and health care. The Medicine X initiative is designed to explore the potential of social media and information technology to advance the practice of medicine, improve health, and empower patients to be active participants in their own care. The “X” is meant to evoke a move beyond numbers and trends—it represents the infinite possibilities for current and future information technologies to improve health.
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