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  • Could ehealth raise public awareness of clinical conditions?

    I came accross an interesting article published in BMC Medicine titled “Do citizens have minimum medical knowledge? A survey”. The authors found a “consistent and dramatic lack of knowledge in the general public about the typical signs and risk factors of relevant clinical conditions”. What surprised me was that this finding seemed to apply to…

  • Patients want more performance information available online. Where do we go from here?

    Came across an interesting little blurb reporting on a survey. In the the survey conducted in the UK, nearly 80% of patients want “more information on how their NHS hospital performs available on the internet”. Nothing too shocking, right? My first thought was to question whether or not this matters. From my personal experience working…

  • In the news…Tuesday March 27, 2007

    I keep getting the feeling that we, here in Canada, are in a state of transition. There seems to be an undercurrent of dissatisfaction, unrest, and even some urgency. I don’t think I can point to any one particular event or thing as a definitive “sign”, but I get a sense that change is imminent.…

  • Telehealth Ontario: Is it doing more harm than good?

    A while back, I wrote about my experience using the Telehealth Ontario service. In my particular case, my experience was satisfactory. As I understand things, Telehealth Ontario is meant to be a service that “can help you decide whether to care for yourself, make an appointment with your doctor, go to a clinic, contact a…

  • Technical difficulties

    Happy 2007 everyone. I know I haven’t written in a while, but I’ve been busy with my dissertation. I was doing some server maintenance (mostly back-ups and cleaning up some files) and I seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties with the blog. My apologies to anyone who is looking for older articles/posts and can’t…

  • OHA Conference 2006

    I’m attending the OHA annual convention (www.ohahealthachieve.com) until Wednesday November 8th, 2006. I can’t speak for everyone else, but the OHA convention is an event that I look forward to attending each year, as there’s much to learn from all of the different presentorss and vendor exhibits. I’ll be writing up a summary of each…

  • EHR use in the United States

    Health Affairs has an interesting article titled “How common are electronic health records in the United States? A summary of the evidence“. The authors reviewed the literature to try and determine the availability of and use of electronic health records (EHRs). The short answer to the authors’ question is: not very much. A reported 24%…

  • Another tablet device for healthcare

    Intel recently announced a new “mobile computing platform for health care professionals”, dubbed the mobile clinical assistant. I used to be a big fan of tablet-style computers for health care use, but recently, I’m not so sure that this form factor works (at least in hospital environments). I think the technology itself is great, but…