‘Jakob Nielsen’s Digital Divide: The Three Stages’ posted by Ismael Peña talking about Empowerment Divide and a conversation with him make me think about empowerment in health and the consequences of Internet in this topic. Roma Harris and Tiffany Veinot wrote The Empowerment Model and Using E-Health to Distribute Information. In this working paper they… Read more »
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Health care: Towards quality performance – OCDE
Improving health is a key concern of OECD societies, as it can contribute to higher economic growth and improved welfare. OCDE Observer The OECD Observer magazine presents concise, up-to-date and authoritative analysis of crucial world economic, social and environmental issues. Since 1962 it has been keeping policymakers, business people, NGOs, researchers and journalists ahead of… Read more »
The 2007 Digital Future Report
The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has presented the results of the fifth year project: The 2007 Digital Future Report. I have read the highlights of the report (the full report is available for purchase) and obviously they have consequences on the health field as far as they talk about:… Read more »
New Web-based tools, health education and health communication
It looks like the Web 2.0 has arrived to the field of health education as far as we can find articles talking about it. I have read Boulos, M., et al. (2006). “Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education.” BMC Medical Education 6(41): 8 [link]… Read more »
Internet health information seekers and the Politics of search engine
Most of the Internet health informations seekers use search engines to find what they are looking for on the Web. See: Diaz, J. Griffith, R. et al. (2002). Patients’ Use of the Internet for Medical Information. J GEN INTERN MED 17:180-185 Fox, S. (2002). Vital decisions. [online article]. PEW Internet & American Life Project. [5/10/2006]…. Read more »
World Health Organization and eHealth
The World Health Organization (WHO) created in 2005 the Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) As its initial task it carried out the first global survey on eHealth. The survey covered seven key themes in the eHealth domain and one of these is the subject of this report which summarizes the needs for eHealth tools and… Read more »