US doctors turn to social media for medical information: Survey. Social media was defined as "Internet-based applications that allow for the creation and exchange of user-generated content, including social networking, professional online communities, wikis, blogs and microblogging" News | by IANS WASHINGTON, USA: About one in four physicians in the US uses social media once or multiple times daily to explore medical information, and 14 per cent do so daily to contribute new information, says a new survey. The survey of 485 oncologists and primary care physicians also found that on a weekly basis or even more frequently, 61 per cent of physicians scan social media for information and 46 percent contribute new information. Social media was defined as "Internet-based applications that allow for the creation and exchange of user-generated content, including social networking, professional online communities, wikis, blogs and microblogging".
What influenced a physician's usage of social media most were perceived ease of use and usefulness. As Patient Records Are Digitized, Data Breaches Are on the Rise. As Patient Records Are Digitized, Data Breaches Are on the Rise. Google Health: Why It's Ending & What It Means. Google's quest to organize the world's information will no longer include one of society's most important and sensitive sources of data: our health records. The company announced this afternoon that Google Health will be closed forever and deleted in 18 months, along with a thematically similar and also formerly ambitious project, Google Power Meter. Google says it's shutting down the projects because they got very little traction but health industry tech innovators say that Google Health may have been ahead of its time, did a poor job reaching out to a now growing ecosystem of developers and ought to be put on slow life support or open sourced instead of being shut down.
When it comes to patient-centric cloud-based electronic health records, the opportunity remains large, the need severe but the challenges are substantial. What it Means to Lose Google Health Medical information heavy-hitter John D. "Health was always a long term play. Why Did Google Health Fail to Gain More Traction? An update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter. In the coming months, we’re going to retire two products that didn’t catch on the way we would have hoped, but did serve as influential models: Google Health (retiring January 1, 2012; data available for download through January 1, 2013) and Google PowerMeter (retiring September 16, 2011). Both were based on the idea that with more and better information, people can make smarter choices, whether in regard to managing personal health and wellness, or saving money and conserving energy at home.
While they didn't scale as we had hoped, we believe they did highlight the importance of access to information in areas where it’s traditionally been difficult. We’re making this announcement well in advance to give you plenty of time to download the information you might have stored in either product or to transfer it to another service, and we’re making it easy for you to do it in a variety of formats. More on how that works below. "SMART" Health App Competition Concludes, Names $5,000 Winner. HOW TO: Use Social Media for Better Health. Tools such as YouTube and Facebook help build relationships, spread new information, and keep people entertained, but they are not tools people immediately think of when trying to improve cardiovascular health or achieve a healthy weight.
Social media, however, can be a great resource for improving one's health. It makes sense - an incredible amount of tools, information and support are available online. Using social media for health does not require exercising while blogging, just smart techniques and dedication. Here are a few suggestions for utilizing social media for healthier living: Step 1. Use social media to stick to goals When talking about healthy living, the toughest part is always consistency. Write a blog post, send out tweets, or make a Facebook group about a health goal, whether it be lowering blood pressure or building new muscle. Step 2. This is probably the most overlooked aspect of healthy living.
Step 3. Support groups are used by many for a reason - they work. Annals of Medicine: The Itch: Reporting & Essays: The New Yo. It was still shocking to M. how much a few wrong turns could change your life. She had graduated from Boston College with a degree in psychology, married at twenty-five, and had two children, a son and a daughter. She and her family settled in a town on Massachusetts’ southern shore. She worked for thirteen years in health care, becoming the director of a residence program for men who’d suffered severe head injuries. But she and her husband began fighting. There were betrayals. By the time she was thirty-two, her marriage had disintegrated. In the divorce, she lost possession of their home, and, amid her financial and psychological struggles, she saw that she was losing her children, too.
One day, she went to see a doctor because she wasn’t feeling well, and learned that she had contracted H.I.V. from a contaminated needle. It was right after a shingles episode. Her internist didn’t know what to make of the problem. The internist prescribed a medicated cream, but it didn’t help. Playing the video game 'Tetris' could reduce trauma, c.
Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health - The 'Coke and Pep. Last week we reported on an interview that health blogger Amy Tenderich carried out with Google Health's Missy Krasner. Amy has followed up with an interview with Keith Toussaint, Senior Program Manager with Microsoft HealthVault. As we shall see, the two tech rivals - Google and Microsoft - have much in common when it comes to their online health apps. Microsoft HealthVault was launched in October '07. Based on Microsoft's existing health search engine, the service aimed to become a central repository for people to store and selectively share their health information and records - including patient records, test results, and prescription info. As with Google Health, Microsoft is essentially building a platform for other, smaller services to tap into. Neither bigco wants to get involved in the tricky world of health records compliance and prescription.
Like Google, Microsoft is emphasizing that it's still early stages in this market. Image credit: Senor Adventure.