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 Categorized: Services
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:
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 »
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 »
Health Literacy in a Network Society
It has come to my notice that MedlinePlus has a new page on Health Literacy where Health literacy is defined as “the ability to understand health information and to use that information to make good decisions about your health and medical care. Health information can overwhelm even people with advanced literacy skills”. eHealth has been… Read more »
Open Government Policies
Ethan Zuckerman, fellow of the Berkman Center for Interent and Society at Harvard Law School, is posting about Open Government Principles workshop at O’Reilly and Associates: Tools for open government Towards the principles of open government data The aim of this meeting was to draft a set of principles to define what constitutes open government… Read more »
Blogpulse: The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) vs. Digital Natives
Just two trends done by Blogpulse. Does they mean Digital Natives are interested in International Student Assessment?