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The emerging patient-centered medical home (PCMH) approach to primary care is talked about a lot these days - but that doesn't mean everyone is necessarily eager to jump in head first. At the American Telemedicine Association's annual meeting, one project manager shared his tips for spurring adoption.Leveraging smart and intensive use of health IT, a team-based approach, and provider-inspired patient empowerment, the PCMH model stands to be a crucial part of healthcare reform - one that rewards quality, not quantity, of care.
News sites - specifically health magazines' websites and WebMD - still remain the most trusted online healthcare resource (68 percent), while user-generated contributions on Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs are used less frequently (54 percent), according to results from a national consumer survey conducted by Makovsky + Company.
Despite a rise in the discipline of employees for their activities on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn there is still much work to be done around procedures for enforcing social media policy, according to a survey fielded by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and its affiliated Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA).
Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Inc., is urging healthcare leaders to use healthcare information technology to improve the efficiency and quality of care and to support future innovations in prevention, wellness and personalized medicine.
A new tool from Boston-based UbiCare aims to provide a look at the U.S. healthcare industry's use of Facebook and fan engagement. UbiCare's Engagement Quotient (EQ) Chart looks at activity on more than 900 hospital and healthcare-associated Facebook pages and offers a measurement of fan interaction with those pages. Each week, these pages will be ranked by success in engaging fans, using key data such as posts, likes, comments and links sourced from Facebook, all of which are then factored against the pages' fan bases.
A new report by SmartPersonalHealth reveals that interoperability is a significant challenge for the personal health solutions market. The report, titled "Enabling smart integrated care: Recommendations for fostering greater interoperability of personal health systems," offers ideas for creating interoperable personal health systems.
According to a recent survey of U.S. physicians, 61 percent intend to own an iPhone by the end of 2011. This is up from 39 percent at the beginning of the year and compares with the iPhone's 24.7 percent adoption among general U.S. smartphone users.
In this new social media environment researchers and clinicians need to engage more actively with the public to articulate the importance of science in determining the benefits and harm of novel treatments and to ensure that patients' concerns and priorities are heard, according to new study published in Nature.