Archive for 2007
PHRs on Cell Phones?
July 13, 2007
According to a piece in Health Data Management, Capmed has purchased a company with this technology. Here is the pitch from ICE First: “ICE First is a web- and mobile phone-based software application that allows you to quickly and easily store and manage emergency medical information and contact numbers right on your mobile phone.” You can actually download the software from their website based on your wireless provide. Only a $10 fee with $5 per year to maintain data on their website. You can get a sticker for your phone indicating it has emergency information.
Cell phones make sense because of their pervasiveness in the market – this could be more popular that thumb drive PHRs or other devices. The only downside it the potential for losing your phone or running low on battery.
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eHealth in Canada
July 12, 2007
In a Canadian publication, InterGovWorld.com, there is a length article discussion the state of eHealth in Canada. eHealth is defined in broad terms to include EMRs, electronic prescribing, etc. They note that one of the government’s key goals is the “Development of a network of interoperable EHR solutions across Canada.” The article is very upbeat about the state of eHealth without going into specifics but notes that there are variation in the provinces. They also cite Australia as leading them in eHealth.
Share this:PHR Patents
July 11, 2007
MarketIntellNow blog is covering PHRs all week. Specifically, they are citing patents for major PHRs, such as, Medem and CapMed. They have a helpful discussion of adoption of PHRs:
“Our PHR polling approach drills first into Awareness (it’s low), then examines those who are aware (likely your early adopters) as to Need (it’s high among the chronically sick, which has a tilt towards an older demographic), then queries regarding Willingness to Pay (or suffer ads) and finally drills into those who have need and a willingness to pay but indicate they won’t act– they thus have Objections we uncover that can be overcome at some cost, or not.”
I agree with these basic steps. They need to get wider coverage.
Share this:Setting the Bar Higher for PHRs
July 10, 2007
In a lengthy article in Health Data Management, Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s PHR, MyChart is set up as a leader in the field. Based on Epic System’s EHR, this personal health record goes beyond lab results and appointment information, it includes detailed information about the test results and custom links selected by physicians. They emphasized security and privacy from the beginning, gaining their patients’ confidence. It can’t hurt that the are located in the middle of Silicon Valley and many of their patients are early adopters in the tech industry or universities.
They have partnered with Healthwise for medical information which can be used as a prescription to education patients. 43% of their patients now use the PHR, probably the highest percent among provider-based PHRs. They are now creating an online disease management program which will further personalize online care.
Share this:Update on Health 2.0 Conference
July 7, 2007
Matthew Holt has a major update on the conference to be held in September in San Francisco. He reports many new sponsors, lots of registrations, and a contest to fill a slot on the Social Media for Patients panel. He has some interesting links to new Health 2.0 companies.
Also on The Health Care Blog is a citation of my Web 2.0 in Health Care presentation.
Share this:Web 2.0 in Health Care Links
July 7, 2007
Today I presented my Web 2.0 talk to the Clinical IT group at work. As a handout, I created a page of all links to sites mentioned in the talk. Here they are for a more general audience. These a just examples of web 2.0 websites, not intended to be a comprehensive list.
- Defining: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
- Photos and Tagging: www.Flickr.com, www.del.icio.us.com
- The World is Flat: http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/worldisflat.htm
- Growth of blogs: http://www.sifry.com/stateoftheliveweb/
Blogs in Health Care:
- http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/
- http://RunningAHospital.blogspot.com
- http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/
- http://www.healthcareguy.com/
RSS: http://www.google.com/reader/view/
- http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/
- http://www.askdrwiki.com
- http://www.informatics-review.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Podcasting:
- http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/podcast/default2.htm
- http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/mediaII/Podcasts.html
- http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog
Social Networking
Tagging
- www.Del.icio.us.com – for web pages
- Digg.com – for news
- Technorati.com – for blogs
Ratings – www.RevolutionHealth.com, www. HospitalRatings.com
EMR – www.practicefusion.com
Blog Policy – http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html
Health 2.0 – http://www.health2con.com/
Wikinomics – http://www.wikinomics.com/book/
Technorati: Health 2.0
Share this:Pharma and Web 2.0
July 6, 2007
According to an article on iHealthbeat, drug companies are slow to adopt social media. The exception appears to be YouTube postings which are common for diabetes drugs, for instance. While much of their direct to consumer marketing has spawned a website for every new drug, blogs and wikis are rare in this space. As the article notes, the companies could learn much from their patients using this medium. There is also potential to enhance compliance – perhaps patients could learn from each other more about how to manage a chronic condition like diabetes.
Share this:More Response to my Web 2.0 in Health Care Presenation
July 3, 2007
Adopt Web 2.0 has also cited my slide contrasting Health care values with Web 2.0 values. Adopt Web 2.0 has some interesting entries outside of healthcare. It includes entries on Web 2.0 in science and in the enterprise. Looks like a good resource for trends in this sector.
Share this:Latin American Health Website
July 3, 2007
In a comment from Intramed, a Latin American medical website, Florencia Braga points out the lack of real international representation on the Google Health Advisory Group. As international as Google is, it is surprising. However, it may be that they can only address the US healthcare system now. Let’s hope they are open to expanding that advisory group in the future.
By the Way, Intramed has some real depth of content. It translates well from the Spanish using the Google Language tool for webpage translation.
Share this:NetWellness – a Ohio-based Health Information Destination
June 29, 2007
Netwellness is provides high-quality medical information vetted by university medical faculty including Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. In addition to having a reference library with links to Adam and ClinicalTrials.gov, there is an Ask the Expert feature which allows for asking questions but also posting previous questions. Not all areas are accepting new questions at once. Included are several links to resources I hadn’t seen before, such as, About Cancer Genes.
Worth some exploration.
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