Patient Centered IT

This is part 5 of the series on the Patient Centered Infrastructure. It documents knowledge management as a part of the Patient Centered Process: Profile(Data) Information Retrieval(Information) Knowledge Management(Knowledge) Education(Skills) Medical Services(Interaction) Summary for TLDRs; Patient knowledge is not only one collateral result from healthcare processes it is an important factor for most results and […]

This a very interesting post about some facts of the drivers of changing healthcare. The impact of information and communication is measurable. However the measurements are often related to coarse grained concepts like healthcare costs. Information in the role of a therapeutical intervention or in the role of a framework for a changing society needs […]

Another remarkable result is contributed by this post: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarikabansal/2011/10/07/mhealth-text-message-txt2stop/2/ To the delight of mobile health proponents around the world, the researchers found that nearly 11% of smokers in the intervention group quit smoking, as compared to 5% of those in the control group. They published their findings in the Lancet this summer. This study is […]

This study is a remarkable result where skin patients get better outcomes just from receiving test messages that remind them to comply with their treatment.  It reminds of the fact that a prescribed treatment is not an executed treatment and that there is a level of patient participation which might sound trivial @ first sight […]