tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076839327674215825.post2159968845265812339..comments2024-03-27T05:14:34.288-04:00Comments on Medinnovation And Health Reform: Health 2.0. Potentially Clinical Useful?Richard L. Reece, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03446550629857699574noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076839327674215825.post-70981163567348748442007-10-13T14:30:00.000-04:002007-10-13T14:30:00.000-04:00I do not care for the phrase Health 2.0, but I adm...I do not care for the phrase Health 2.0, but I admit I use it on my website simply because it is a catchy phrase. <BR/><BR/>I do look to technology and the internet to improve the delivery of health care, to diminish the sheer number of medical errors and to facilitate the sharing of information. Patients do not remember their docs names, their medications, dosages, allergies or whether or not tests were done...and if they were done, who has the results. If there were a central depository where that information could be housed, searched, indexed and cross-referenced... my job would be easier, and I imagine the quality of care delivered would improve as well. There would certainly be less medical errors if this systems alerted all involved if a medication conflict arose, allergy arose, etc. <BR/><BR/><BR/>As a patient, I imagine I would look to the internet for a transparent, equitable, and comprehensive means of determing the "quality" of the care I am receiving. As a patient I would like to know that my treatment is based on sound evidence based medicine. I would want that information presented to me in a cross-referenced (diagnosis, physician ranking, institutional ranking), comprehensive, easy to understand format---and I would use that information to find a doctor or hospital---much like I use the internet to research a washer and dryer. When is Consumer Reports going to enter Health Care :-) ???<BR/><BR/>Love your blogHoward Luks MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03397202839693809691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076839327674215825.post-3827274345114020392007-10-12T08:53:00.000-04:002007-10-12T08:53:00.000-04:00You may be right, but the IT world thinks it's goi...You may be right, but the IT world thinks it's going to change the health care world through data crunching, ubiquitous algorithms, and data channeling at the point of care. The jury is still out. After google, anything seems possible.Richard L. Reece, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03446550629857699574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076839327674215825.post-91075394038705773282007-10-11T22:02:00.000-04:002007-10-11T22:02:00.000-04:00I worked some years in a laboratory of Biomedical ...I worked some years in a laboratory of Biomedical Informatics and devoted to the development of decision support tools, text mining algorithms and evaluation of IT in healthcare... and in my opinion is that Health 2.0 (as Web 2.0, grid technologies, bioinformatics, genomic medicine...) are just hypes.<BR/><BR/>Nice words that allows some people to give conferences a couple of years. Fashionable words that allows researchers to find funding for their projects ("hey, put something about Health 2.0 / grid tehcnologies in our project description so the NLM give us some funding..."). Today is Health 2.0, yesterday was decision support tools and grids.<BR/><BR/>Of course, some good innovations will last after the hype have pass over. And in general the future will be about some of our currently face-to-face interactions with patiens being translated to Internet (througth blogs, email, messenger or whatever). But there is nothing impresive in the "health 2.0" issue beyond the natural evolution of technologies (with young and not so much young people increasely adopting internet as a natural communication tool).<BR/><BR/>However we should not forget that Internet access is a privilege of only a 10% of world population (the poorest, including the poorest in USA and EU do not have Internet at home and are far away from Health 1.0 or 2.0).Dr. Bonishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04834650474055907221noreply@blogger.com