Patient – Insight Sciences

Healthtap: health professionals give free advice online

April 28, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

The Ultra-Popular App That Has Convinced Doctors To Give Their Services For Free
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

HealthTap gives you access to medical professionals to answer your health queries, and it doesn’t cost you a dime.

There was a time not too long ago that doctors lived in an analog world. They only answered questions from patients that came i…

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The Instagram-for-doctors is gross, scary, graphic – and it could save your life (digitaltrends.com)

Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care

December 14, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

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Written by Heather Punke |, beckershospitalreview.com

December 12, 2012

American healthcare consumers are buying into the notion that they must take an active role in their healthcare, according to a recent survey by Wolters Kluwer Health, part of Wolters Kluwer, a global information…

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Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care

Rate your hospital: online tool a 1st for Canadians (cbc.ca)
U.S. doctors don’t believe patients need full access to health records (infoworld.com)
How health tech can support the aging baby boomer population (venturebeat.com)
Doctors want homeopathy on the NHS to end (telegraph.co.uk)
Deborah Stambler: The Value of High Tech Health Care (huffingtonpost.com)
82% U.S. Doctors believe patients should update their Electronic Health Records (healthitplus.wordpress.com)

Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future?

October 1, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Regenerative Economy

Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future?
BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com

As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care?

There’s something seriously wrong with a health care system that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doctor’s…

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