I would like to thank indeed Ruslan David, eHealthNews.EU Portal Administrator/Editor, for his help to disseminate the results of the research project E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia and also for his wonderful job as Editor of eHealthNews.EU – the First European eHealth News Portal.
Posts By: Francisco Lupianez-Villanueva
Rating Physicians and Hospitals and Web 2.0: Could it really change health demand?
Checking my RSS I have found a interesting post titled Health Care’s Broke: Physician Rating and Quality Indicators where the author mentions some physicians’ and hospitals’ opinions about Web 2.0 rating tools: You’re only going to get the extreme patients to evaluate you (and often the unhappy ones) The unhappy patients will have the opportunity… Read more »
E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia
Between 2005 and 2007 I worked in a research project titled Project Internet Catalunya – Technological Modernisation, Organisational Change and Service Delivery in the Catalan Public Health System (PIC Salut) directed by Prof. Castells and supported by Catalonia Government. I’m glad to announce that the English summary is already available: E-HEALTH AND SOCIETY: An Empirical… Read more »
A First Comparison of Google Health and MS HealthVault
Vince Kuraitis has posted A First Comparison of Google Health and MS HealthVault perfectly summed up by the following table from his post:
The Medicalization of Cyberspace
A few weeks ago, Jordí Sánchez-Navarro sent me a link to a book titled The Medicalization of Cyberspace written by Andy Miah and Emma Rich (see Table of Contents) The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices. Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical… Read more »
Drawing up practical guidelines for a responsible use of the information obtained on the Internet and the e-mail with health purposes
Miquel A. Mayer MD PhD, director of Certified Medical Web Site Seal from Medical Association of Barcelona have invited me to join and collaborate in a research project directed by himself and funded by Spanish Health Minister: Title Drawing up practical guidelines for a responsible use of the information obtained on the Internet and the… Read more »
Ways of Knowing: a New History of Science, Technology and Medicine
I’m working on the introduction of my thesis tentatively titled “Health and the Internet in the Network Society” and I have started to read Ways of Knowing: a New History of Science, Technology and Medicine by John V. Pickstone. About the book: In Ways of Knowing, John V. Pickstone provides a new and accessible framework… Read more »
Pathways to the doctor: "clinical iceberg" and "the long tail"
I have been reading and taking some wiki notes about ‘Pathways to the Doctor’ in the Information Age: the Role of ICTs in Contemporary Lay Referral Systems written by Nettleton and Hanlon. The article stars explaining the ‘clinical iceberg’ concept identified by social scientists (Last, 1963; Wadsworth et al., 1971) during the post-war years. This… Read more »
Digital Natives and eHealth
The Spanish Health Minister has published a press release talking about its collaboration with Microsoft to launch Robot Robin, a Windows Live Messenger Assistant that helps young people through the Messenger to resolve doubts about health issues related with sex, pregnancy and alcoholic drinks. It is said that people can add Robin to the personal… Read more »
Understanding Innovative Health Technologies by Andrew Webster
I have been reading Health, Technology & Society. A Sociological Critique written by Andrew Webster, who has also written other articles and books about this issue. I would like to share my notes about the first chapter titled Understanding Innovative Health Technologies, partially based on other author’s paper Innovative Health Technologies and the Social: Redefining Health,… Read more »