eHealth: Recent Comments

Comment on Google Health Presented at HIMSS

online doctor — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:18:36 GMT

Every field Google has entered into it has excelled - the area of health information will not be the exception. I expect Google to have a significant impact on health care.

Comment on Medicine 2.0 Conference in September

online doctor — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:41:25 GMT

I think there most certainly will become a point where Web 2.0 medicine will gain the respect they deserve in mainline health IT world. The best approach to using these tools to enhance health care is to start with conferences around Web 2.0 in health care then intigrate it into mainline conferences over time.

Comment on Shameless Self Promotion

Adam Bazer — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:37:55 GMT

John-Thanks for all the help you have provided us in the Education Department at HIMSS! We still pass along your presentation on Web 2.0 to interested parties. Congrats on the award!

Comment on Shameless Self Promotion

Jen McCabe Gorman — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:03:24 GMT

Nice work John - congrats!

Comment on More on Medical Banking Project

John Casillas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:28:12 GMT

Thanks for the post. I think we all agree that in any given model, if the patient cannot control the data, there will be problems. Using sound bites like a "nightmare scenario" is really unnecessary when we all agree this is the case.

The Medical Banking Project is seeking to ensure health data is private and secure by creating the medical banking industry's first Gold Seal standard - an accreditation program for medical banking constituencies. Consumers who want a highy secure way to access their records might be interested to know that we are advancing the idea of using a PHR linked to the online banking platform. This platform is one of the nation's most trusted portals, used by some 55 million American households and growing. Its layered thick with security to keep the bad guys away from our money.

When you think about it, the banking industry is locked into an Identity Theft Arms Race with the bad guys. They are constantly adjusting security to keep your money safe. If they lose that battle they lose public trust and that's unacceptable for commerce or government.

We envision linkage of the online banking portal to a family health website to do things like request records, review healthcare expenses, do research on family treatments, schedule doctor appointments, pay for services and much more. Think of it as "single sign on for the consumer".

Clearly for this type of program to work it will require strong privacy and security protections. We believe this is a fundamental right so incorporating protocols in our Gold Seal program that requires consumer authorization, a high degree of privacy and confidentiality, and the requirement to give permission to use the data in marketing (for example), is obviously very important and a fundamental component of any viable medical banking strategy.

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Comment on Presentation Tomorrow on Web 2.0 in Health Care

Mark Phillips — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:55:41 GMT

John, I enjoyed the presentation. Could you post the slides? The Webex replay is available, but a copy of the slides would be awesome!
Thanks,
Mark

Comment on Presentation Tomorrow on Web 2.0 in Health Care

Sam — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:03:03 GMT

An interesting resource for both DR's, hospitals and patients is www.webtribes.com. It is a series of online social netwoking site for individuals with mental health challenges.

There are five tribes.

DepressionTribe.com
AnxietyTribe.com
AddictionTribe.com
OCDTribe.com
HIVAidsTribe.com

This sites have the latest in Web 2.0 features and can support groups within the sites for associations to create their own unique area. No need to host and develop when this is FREE!

Comment on Presentation Tomorrow on Web 2.0 in Health Care

Michelle — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:04:57 GMT

Interesting. Hospital librarians are starting to see this as patients and families come in to use the library services and computers. I think the librarians are noticing it more because these sites are usually blocked by the hospital and the familes then go to the librarian to ask how to get on the site(s).

If hospitals start to open up access to these social networking resources several questions start to emerge.

1. How will they handle the network demands that these sites often need. Hospitals as well as Universities are lamenting that they can't keep up with current bandwidth demands, opening up access to sites like YouTube and podcasting sites will increase the need for more bandwidth.
2. By allowing access to these sites to patients and families, employees will most likely also access them. What are the institutional policies regarding things like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube.
2a. Would all social networking be considered fun and off employee time? What about consulting with peers across the world or viewing a recommended surgical video on YouTube?

Lots of things to consider, I cross my fingers that hospitals and other institutions will start to address these and other questions and begin to embrace Web 2.0 applications.

Comment on Presentation Tomorrow on Web 2.0 in Health Care

Jeff O'Connor — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:52:28 GMT

I'll be attending, John, and hope to get as many members of the Product Development team as I can to join me on very short notice.

I'm very eager to hear what you have to say; thanks for taking on such a timely and poorly understood topic.