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Personalized Medicine, the Next Frontier–Susannah Fox

December 10, 2008 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Nancy B. Finn is a journalist with an expertise in the implementation of digital communications in health care. This is her second guest post on e-patients.net: When an individual patient visits his or her doctor with a problem, traditional clinical diagnosis is made and treatment is administered based on the patient’s symptoms, medical and family […]

Filed Under: policy issues Tagged With: Center for Genetics and Genomics, clinical diagnosis, disease prevention, genetic, genomic, Harvard Medical School, Nancy B. Finn, Partners Healthcare, personalized medicine

Cyberchondria: Old Wine in New Bottles

December 2, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Just before Thanksgiving, Microsoft released a study entitled, “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search.” Ryen White and Eric Horvitz took advantage of a data set that few people have access to (log files from Microsoft’s Live Search engine and MSN Health and Fitness) as well as a survey of 515 […]

Filed Under: news & gossip, understanding statistics Tagged With: artificial intelligence, cyberchondria, Diana Forsythe, microsoft, New York Times, search

Engage With Grace

November 26, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

The following post was written by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace Team. Here’s an image of the slide, and below is the post that many are sharing today. (The original PowerPoint slide is linked within the post.) Please see comments at end.

Filed Under: e-pts resources Tagged With: end of life, Engage with Grace

Reducing Disparities, Spreading Improvement–Susannah Fox

November 25, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Josh Seidman asks a very good question that goes toward our discussion of spreading improvement and the digital divide, “If [targeted] interventions… have been shown to have an enormous impact on the health of these populations, maybe Ix and related initiatives can be applied to a wide variety of challenges that underserved populations face — […]

Filed Under: found on the net Tagged With: digital divide, information therapy

Your Health Information at Your Fingertips–Susannah Fox

November 16, 2008 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Nancy B. Finn is a journalist with an expertise in the implementation of digital communications in health care and shared this story about personal health records: I was recently hospitalized. Fortunately I did not have to go through the emergency department but was admitted directly to a room. When I arrived, the nurse assigned to […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list Tagged With: Dossia, Google Health, iHealth Record, Microsoft HealthVault, Nancy B. Finn, personal health records

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