The Pew Internet & American Life Project will soon go into the field with our next health survey and we need your help. One of our core findings (8 in 10 internet users, or about two-thirds of U.S. adults, look online for health information) is based on a series of questions that is tweaked in […]
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Pandas, Lobsters, and Health Care
Joe Kvedar asks an excellent question in his post, The Next Phase of Connected Health: Connected Personalized Health: What are the best variables to consider when taking connected health programs from pilot to scale? He imagines a matrix with three axes: severity of chronic illness, patient readiness, and technology readiness. That makes sense to me, […]
Mobile, Social Health at the National Library of Medicine–Susannah Fox
Update: The NLM released new widgets on July 14, along with a redesigned MedlinePlus site. (Read @eagledawg‘s take on these new tools, as well as her response to this post.) Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Picture it: […]
Patient Communities… at Walgreens?
UPDATE: On Feb. 18, 2015, PatientsLikeMe and Walgreens announced a partnership: “Now, anyone researching a medication or filling a prescription on Walgreens.com can access a simple snapshot that shows how their prescribed medication has impacted other patients on the therapy, including medication side effects, as reported by PatientsLikeMe members.” One more step away from “crazy” and toward “obvious” […]
Health Geek Tip: Abstracts are ads. Read full studies when you can.–Susannah Fox
Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, provided excellent evidence yesterday regarding the need to look past abstracts of journal articles if accuracy matters to you:
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