Gordon J. The Nursing Clinics of North America, 46(3)
Patients using the Internet are inundated with abundant information on health care that may be correct and may be incorrect. It is becoming the role of clinicians to enable patients to educate themselves by providing information about accurate and reliable Web sites, and to answer questions from literature that patients encounter.
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McLean S et al, BMJ, 342
Telehealthcare is personalised healthcare delivered over a distance; data are transferred from the patient to the professional, who then provides feedback
In patients with severe long term conditions, such as problematic asthma and diabetes, telehealthcare can reduce hospital admissions without increasing mortality
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Krist AH, Woolf SH. JAMA, 305(3)
The health information technology movement focuses much of its energy on the use of electronic medical records by clinicians, but the use of information technology by patients carries equal promise. Outside of health care, the public routinely uses computers and smart phones to access information and perform tasks with a click of a button.
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Ahern DK et al, J Med Internet Res, 8(1)
Background:
The field of eHealth holds promise for supporting and enabling health behavior change and the prevention and management of chronic disease.
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Ilic D. Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(6)
E-health encompasses a broad range of health disciplines that use the Internet and associated technologies to deliver information and health services. Traditionally, patients have relied on the healthcare professional to provide relevant medical information to inform decision making on diagnosis and therapy. Patient education in the past has consisted of independently collated health information, disseminated predominantly in written and video formats.
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Kuwata S et al, Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
This study presented a newly developed online groupware system, Metaboli-Net, to yield counseling guidance on diet and exercise to patients with metabolic syndrome. A distinctive feature adopted in the system to maintain the retention rate of patients was the social network service (SNS) that enables the patients to share their dietary and relevant health information with other participants in the same group on the network.
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Hoch D, Ferguson T, PLoS Medicine, 2(8)
As a neurologist subspecializing in epilepsy at a respected academic institution, I (DH) assumed that I knew everything I needed to know about epilepsy and patients with epilepsy. I was wrong.
In September of 1994, John Lester, my colleague in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, showed me an online bulletin board for neurology patients that he had created [1]. In reading through the online messages, I observed hundreds of patients with neurological diseases sharing their experiences and discussing their problems with one another.
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Boruff JT, Plejic MJ, Journal of Consumer Health On the Internet, 14(2)
The Infothegraveque Health Education Collection is an Internet database with a bilingual search interface that addresses the search and language abilities of health professionals and patients alike and that facilitates access to the patient education materials used by the six hospital sites of the McGill University Health Centre.
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Burrington-Brown, Jill, Journal of AHIMA, 80(6)
Information therapy (Ix) is of interest in health information management, particularly as it relates to the growing use of personal health records (PHRs). It is vitally important for any HIM professional interested in patient advocacy and the promotion of the PHR to understand Ix and how it can be used in the education and participation of individuals in their health and healthcare.
Ix is the “timely prescription and availability of evidence-based health information to meet individuals’ specific needs and support sound decision making. Ix prescriptions are specifically targeted to an individual’s needs at a particular moment in care and are delivered as part of the process of care.”
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Lai, Albert M. et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Article in Press, Corrected Proof
Objective
There has been a growth of home healthcare technology in rural areas. However, a significant limitation has been the need for costly and repetitive training in order for patients to efficiently use their home telemedicine unit (HTU). This research describes the evaluation of an architecture for remote training of patients in a telemedicine environment. This work examines the viability of a remote training architecture called REmote Patient Education in a Telemedicine Environment (REPETE). REPETE was implemented and evaluated in the context of the IDEATel project, a large-scale telemedicine project, focusing on Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes in New York State.
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van der Meer V et al, Ann Intern Med, 151 (2)
Background:
The Internet may support patient self-management of chronic conditions, such as asthma.
Objective:
To evaluate the effectiveness of Internet-based asthma self-management.
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Leveille, Suzanne G. et al, Medical Care, 47(1)
Background:
Efforts to enhance patient-physician communication may improve management of underdiagnosed chronic conditions. Patient internet portals offer an efficient venue for coaching patients to discuss chronic conditions with their primary care physicians (PCP).
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Kamel Boulos, Maged N., and Steve Wheeler, Health Information and Libraries Journal, 24(1)
Web 2.0 sociable technologies and social software are presented as enablers in health and health care, for organizations, clinicians, patients and laypersons. They include social networking services, collaborative filtering, social bookmarking, folksonomies, social search engines, file sharing and tagging, mashups, instant messaging, and online multi-player games. The more popular Web 2.0 applications in education, namely wikis, blogs and podcasts, are but the tip of the social software iceberg.
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O'Grady, Laura A. et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 8
Background
First generation Internet technologies such as mailing lists or newsgroups afforded unprecedented levels of information exchange within a variety of interest groups, including those who seek health information. With emergence of the World Wide Web many communication applications were ported to web browsers. One of the driving factors in this phenomenon has been the exchange of experiential or anecdotal knowledge that patients share online, and there is emerging evidence that participation in these forums may be having an impact on people’s health decision making. Theoretical frameworks supporting this form of information seeking and learning have yet to be proposed.
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Mao, Yudan et al, J Telemed Telecare, 14(8)
We have developed a mobile pharmacy service system (MPSS) to deliver individualized pharmaceutical care via text messages sent to the mobile phones of patients. The text messages were: (1) reminders about medication – from the day following discharge, reminder messages were automatically sent to patients approximately 10 minutes before their medication was due to be taken. The system stopped sending messages when the prescription ran out and suggested that patients should come to hospital to renew any prescribed medicines; (2) practical information about medicines, such as information about methods of administration; (3) information about adverse drug reactions.
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Sabo, Robin M., Journal of Consumer Health On the Internet, 12(4)
Are excessively high reading levels creating a barrier for parents seeking information about autism on the Internet? Although the average American reads at the eighth grade level, medical information is frequently written above the twelfth grade level.
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Gosselin, Pierre, and Philippe Poitras, J Med Internet Res, 10(4)
Background:
Health-related websites have become a common tool for public health authorities to inform the general public of their health promotion information and programs. However, building traffic in the cluttered health Internet universe is becoming increasingly complex, costly, and challenging for governmental health promotion websites. In 2006, the Canadian Health Network (CHN), a cooperative program made up of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and some 20 health non-governmental organizations (NGOs), was looking for an affordable marketing tool for the promotion of its website and contents to specific populations.
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Kummervold PE et al, J Med Internet Res, 10(4)
Background:
In the last decade, the number of Internet users worldwide has dramatically increased. People are using the Internet for various health-related purposes. It is important to monitor such use as it may have an impact on the individual’s health and behavior, patient-practitioner roles, and on general health care provision.
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Tuil, Wouter S. et al, Human Reproduction, 23(11)
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The internet introduces new ways to deal with stress. However, it is unclear how its resources are used in everyday life. Using a web-based personal health record (PHR), we observed the patient’s online behaviour and linked this to distress, theories on dealing with stress and demographics.
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Mühlhauser I, Oser F. Zeitschrift Für Evidenz, Fortbildung Und Qualität Im Gesundheitswesen, 102(7)
Patients and consumers are increasingly searching the Internet for medical and healthcare information. Using the criteria of evidence-based medicine the present study analyses the websites of Wikipedia and two major German statutory health insurances for content and presentation of patient information. 22 senior students of health sciences and education evaluated one topic each. In a first step, they identified the evidence for their specific question. Afterwards they used their results as reference for the evaluation of the three websites. Using a check list each student and a second researcher independently rated content and presentation of the information offered.
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