Dr Amir Hannan explains how his practice has saved money and resources by providing access to records and self-care advice on its website:
"We now have over 1,850 patients accessing their records. Some 16% of patients have currently signed up, with on average 10-30 patients signing up every week. Patients from the ages of zero to over 90 have joined the scheme, with the largest group being women between the ages of 20 and 65. Nearly 30% of our patients with type 1 diabetes, 34% of our obese patients, 46% of patients on methotrexate and 9% of our Bengali patients now have access to their records.
Overall 16% of our practice's patients have signed up. Over the last three months there were over 40,000 page views on our website, averaging over 13,000 page views per month, and over 3,400 recorded logins for a range of online services and access to electronic records.
There were an average of five online visits per patient – well over 650 individual patients out of the total of 1,850 patients registered went online over this time. An average of 50 appointments and 20 appointment cancellations were made online each month, helping improve access and reduce DNA rates.
We have recently completed a joint study with Manor House surgery in Glossop to show that, as a result of providing patients access to their records, we could make savings of almost £20 per patient per year in saved appointments.
Our study showed that on average, we have saved more than one appointment per patient per year and that we saved more than three telephone consultations per patient. The full results of this study will be published soon."
[AS: Will financial savings rather than moral obligation be what finally expedites the provision of electronic health records to patients?] Via Andrew Spong 
First published in 1957, with a slight update in 1964, this text remains one of the standard works on the doctor patient relationship (largely as found in general practice).
Brad Einarsen writes:
'Physicians are looking for a helping hand. The brands that offer it will be much farther ahead.'
Einarsen (rightly, IMO) queries the balance of the data he highlights from a new Sermo study on the basis that 'it stands to reason that the physicians that use Sermo will be at the top-end of digital adoption, so any questions regarding how they prefer to receive information [may] be biased in that direction. Further, the answering physicians were overwhelmingly primary care physicians (PCPs) with only 38% specialists in various fields.'
That said, the top 10 findings were that HCPs:
* Want higher-quality sales representatives * 88% now own smartphones (vs 70% in 2010), and 54% use iPads (or other tablets) in daily work Via Andrew Spong 
La crisis y los niños: Que estamos en un momento de crisis económica y social, en el que todos los logros social... 
#SocialMedia-Style Messaging for Doctors http://t.co/SGLnm2Br #HealthIT #HITsm #hcsm...
Via Linda Lia 
The aim of academic journals is to make the best research widely available. Many have ended up doing the opposite. It is time that changed. Via Andrew Spong 
El melanoma también puede aparecer en adolescentes: Recuerdo a un niño de mi cupo al que, cuando cumplió los pre... 
Infographic seeks out correlations between disease and demographics across the United States. Via Alex Butler 
Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment app A classical, but still a good tool to have at the point of care :) 
Mental health experts say that dark postings by adolescents should not be hastily dismissed because they can serve as an early warning system for timely intervention.
YourTreatmentChoices - An independent place where patients can search for, watch and ask about clinical trials nearby. 
The future of Health in debate: - Medicine around the World
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#Cochrane Consumers & Communication Review Group announces launch of YourHealthNet website: http://t.co/3fAYtMau... 
Andrew Spong (@andrewspong) presents a simple method to test and tune the strength of the connection between your professional keywords and your LinkedIn profile, and explains why it is important to do so. Via Andrew Spong The Paradox of Primary Care: better quality & health, greater equity & lower cost for whole people & populations http://t.co/eZJP84Uv... Archive of select tweets from the 4/22/12 #hcsm chat. Send this social media to a provider you care about. ;) Opinions are my own, but I promise not to keep them to myself. 
A discussion of pharma's experiments in social media via:
* Corporate presences * Regional accounts * Disease awareness campaigns * Corporate social responsibility efforts * Clinical trial patient recruitment Via Andrew Spong 
Uma mulher de 45 anos com dores abdominais e história de emagrecimento... Quais as alterações neste raio X? Qualo diagnóstico? Veja a versão ampliada e saiba a resposta... 
Researchers are concerned that enough may not be being done to ensure the software inside medical devices is secure and fit for purpose. Via Andrew Spong 
Digital technology and communal support can deliver affordable patient-led healthcare, says Lucien Engelen...
"What do we do with this incredible amount of health data? That is a real challenge. We need new ways of finding our way through it. On the intersection between big data and narration is where we can really change healthcare for the better." 
Telegraph.co.ukMisreading medicine labels puts elderly at risk of dyingTelegraph.co.ukA third of older people are at an increased risk of dying because they do not fully understand the instructions on medicine labels, a study has found.
In just 6 categories of waste—overtreatment, failures of care coordination, failures in execution of care processes, administrative complexity, pricing failures, and fraud and abuse—the sum of the lowest available estimates exceeds 20% of total health care expenditures. 
Cine y Pediatría (111). La estética y la ética de los hermanos Dardenne (II): “El niño” y “El niño de la bicicl...
On the weekend of February 11th, Google launched new search functionality that directly focuses on health and health-related searches. When users search for a health-related symptom, like “headache,” they will encounter a list of possible health issues that could be causing that symptom. Below are “before” and “after” screen shots of this new functionality. |
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