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Internet and medicine
Experience with the implementation of a web-based teledermatology system in a nursing home in Singapore.
J Telemed Telecare. 2008; 14(8): 404-9
Janardhanan L, Leow YH, Chio MT, Kim Y, Soh CB
We introduced a web-based teledermatology system, the distributed personal health information management system (DPHIMS), into a nursing home in Singapore. The introduction was conducted in two phases. Five staff nurses in Phase 1 and nine nurse aides in Phase 2 performed the data entry and uploaded digital images of the resident's skin condition. By the end of Phase 2, there were 50 residents registered with DPHIMS. The average age of the participants was 82 years and 84% were women. There were 31 first-time referral requests
Delusional parasitosis facilitated by web-based dissemination.
Am J Psychiatry. 2008 Dec; 165(12): 1612
Vila-Rodriguez F, Macewan BG
Randomized trial of internet-delivered self-help with telephone support for pathological gamblers.
J Consult Clin Psychol. 2008 Dec; 76(6): 1090-4
Carlbring P, Smit F
Although effective therapies for pathological gambling exist, their uptake is limited to 10% of the target population. To lower the barriers for help seeking, the authors tested an online alternative in a randomized trial (N = 66). The participants were pathological gamblers not presenting with severe comorbid depression. A wait-list control was compared with an 8-week Internet-based cognitive behavior therapy program with minimal therapist contact via e-mail and weekly telephone calls of less than 15 min. Average time spent on each participant,
Internet prescribing and the physician patient relationship.
Med Health R I. 2008 Oct; 91(10): 326
Jeha J, Crausman RS
Awareness and action for eliminating health care disparities in pain care: web-based resources.
J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2008; 22(3): 243-50
Fan L, Thomas M, Deitrick GE, Polomano RC
Evidence shows that disparities in pain care exist, and this problem spans across all health care settings. Health care disparities are complex, and stem from the health system climate, limitations imposed by laws and regulations, and discriminatory practices that are deep seated in biases, stereotypes, and uncertainties surrounding communication and decision-making processes. A search of the Internet identified thousands of Web sites, documents, reports, and educational materials pertaining to health and pain disparities.
Web-Based Citation Management Compared to EndNote: Options for Medical Sciences.
Med Ref Serv Q. 2008; 27(3): 260-271
Gomis M, Gall C, Brahmi FA
The authors of this article analyzed the differences in output when searching MEDLINE direct and MEDLINE via citation management software, EndNote X1®, EndNote Web®, and RefWorks©. Several searches were performed on Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed directly. These searches were compared against the same searches conducted in Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed using the search features in EndNote X1, EndNote Web, and RefWorks. Findings indicated that for in-depth research users, should search the databases directly rather than through the citation
The evolution of public relations and the use of the internet: the implications for health care organizations.
Health Mark Q. 2007; 24(3-4): 117-30
Berkowitz EN
Over the past several years the discipline and practice of public relations has evolved. Historically, this field within health care organizations was a one-way management of communications and often was reactive in nature dealing with a crisis situation with an organization. Recent theoretical development within the discipline suggests that public relations involves more relationship building with key constituencies and on-going-dialogue. Concomitant with this evolution is the technological development of the internet. Most particularly is the use of podcasting and
Healthcare Marketing on the Web: Moving Forward Toward More Interactive Practices.
Health Mark Q. 2007; 24(1/2): 35-49
Erdem S
It is hard to deny the notion that the Internet has been very efficient in distributing health information to millions of individuals and has become one of the best marketing tools in healthcare. We have been witnessing so many very creative and interactive practices in this field that we can safely assume that it is now the time for e-commerce in healthcare industry. While this is true for many participants, there are also some who are concerned about using some of these new online options in the field of healthcare. Most of these concerns are derived from the questionable
Medical students' experiences with addicted patients:a web-based survey.
Subst Abus. 2008; 29(1): 25-32
Midmer D, Kahan M, Wilson L
Project CREATE was an initiative to strengthen undergraduate medical education in addictions. As part of a needs assessment, forty-six medical students at Ontario's five medical schools completed a bi-weekly, interactive web-based survey about addiction-related learning events. In all, 704 unique events were recorded, for an average of 16.7 entries per student. The most commonly discussed topic was alcohol withdrawal and the complications of alcohol use. The most common learning venues were lectures and clinical encounters in the emergency department or
Factors affecting nurses' attitudes in Israel toward patients who present them with Internet medical information.
Nurs Outlook. 2008 Nov-Dec; 56(6): 314-21
Barnoy S, Volfin-Pruss D, Ehrenfeld M, Kushnir T
Nurses regularly encounter patients bringing with them medical data from the Internet. The purpose of the present study was to examine the prevalence of these encounters, nurses' attitudes to these patients, and the factors that might influence their attitudes. A cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of 110 nurses (32 practical nurses, 35 registered nurses and 43 academically trained nurses). The main variables measured were: attitudes toward patients presenting Internet information, professional self-esteem, and three
eHealth
Understanding Health Literacy for Strategic Health Marketing: eHealth Literacy, Health Disparities, and the Digital Divide.
Health Mark Q. 2008; 25(1/2): 175-203
Bodie GD, Dutta MJ
Even despite policy efforts aimed at reducing health-related disparities, evidence mounts that population-level gaps in literacy and healthcare quality are increasing. This widening of disparities in American culture is likely to worsen over the coming years due, in part, to our increasing reliance on Internet-based technologies to disseminate health information and services. The purpose of the current article is to incorporate health literacy into an Integrative Model of eHealth Use. We argue for this theoretical understanding of eHealth literacy and propose
Web-Assisted Tobacco Interventions: Empowering Change in the Global Fight for the Public's (e)Health.
J Med Internet Res. 2008; 10(5): e48
Norman CD, McIntosh S, Selby P, Eysenbach G
Tobacco control in the 21(st) century faces many of the same challenges as in the past, but in different contexts, settings and enabled by powerful new tools including those delivered by information and communication technologies via computer, videocasts, and mobile handsets to the world. Building on the power of electronic networks, Web-assisted tobacco interventions (WATI) provide a vehicle for delivering tobacco prevention, cessation, social support and training opportunities on-demand and direct to practitioners and the public alike. The
eHealth trends in Europe 2005-2007: a population-based survey.
J Med Internet Res. 2008; 10(4): e42
Kummervold PE, Chronaki CE, Lausen B, Prokosch HU, Rasmussen J, Santana S, Staniszewski A, Wangberg SC
BACKGROUND: In the last decade, the number of Internet users worldwide has dramatically increased. People are using the Internet for various health-related purposes. It is important to monitor such use as it may have an impact on the individual's health and behavior, patient-practitioner roles, and on general health care provision. OBJECTIVES: This study investigates trends and patterns of European health-related Internet use over a period of 18 months. The main study objective
Collaborative business process support in eHealth: integrating IHE profiles through ebXML business process specification language.
IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2008 Nov; 12(6): 754-62
Dogac A, Kabak Y, Namli T, Okcan A
Integrating healthcare enterprise (IHE) specifies integration profiles describing selected real world use cases to facilitate the interoperability of healthcare information resources. While realizing a complex real-world scenario, IHE profiles are combined by grouping the related IHE actors. Grouping IHE actors implies that the associated business processes (IHE profiles) that the actors are involved must be combined, that is, the choreography of the resulting collaborative business process must be determined by deciding on the
The MidSouth eHealth Alliance: Use and Impact In the First Year.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008; 333-7
Johnson KB, Gadd C, Aronsky D, Yang K, Tang L, Estrin V, King JK, Frisse ME
The MidSouth e-Health Alliance is a health information exchange that has been in use in the Memphis, Tennessee region since May, 2006. This health information exchange took two years to develop from the time it was initially conceived. Following on the work done by the Indianapolis project, the MidSouth e-Health Alliance focused initially on implementations in emergency departments throughout this region. A total of 321 clinicians have used the system in the 5 emergency departments since s initial deployment. This
A Trend Map for e-Health Information.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008; 1098
Plasek JM, Pieczkiewicz DS
Health information of varying levels of quality is available and accessed on the web by patients and medical personnel, who base their decisions on the knowledge they find on the sites they visit. Providing a network map showing different types of sources for medical information is a powerful way to visualize the complex, overlapping web of information available to providers and consumers. We present a prototype map representing consumer e-health information web sites.
Meeting Summary: Tenth IEEE International Conference on e-Health, Networking, Applications, and Services (Healthcom 2008).
Telemed J E Health. 2008 Oct; 14(8): 808
Merrell RC
Exploration of patients' readiness for an eHealth management program for chronic heart failure: a preliminary study.
J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2008 Nov-Dec; 23(6): 463-71
Nahm ES, Blum K, Scharf B, Friedmann E, Thomas S, Jones D, Gottlieb SS
Heart failure (HF) is a major public health problem in the United States. Approximately 5 million Americans are living with HF, and each year, 550,000 more are newly diagnosed. With recent, rapidly advancing technologies, many studies have examined the effects of technology-based HF management programs. Most of these studies focused on telemonitoring devices, lacking an aspect to motivate individuals to manage their own illnesses. This exploratory study was conducted to (1) examine the readiness of
Privacy Protection through Pseudonymisation in eHealth.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2008; 141: 111-8
De Meyer F, De Moor G, Reed-Fourquet L
The ISO TC215 WG4 pseudonymisation task group has produced in 2008 a first version of a technical specification for the application of pseudonymisation in Healthcare Informatics 0. This paper investigates the principles set out in the technical specification as well as its implications in eHealth. The technical specification starts out with a conceptual model and evolves from a theoretical model to a real life model by adding assumptions on the observability of personal data.
eHealth services and Directive on Electronic Commerce 2000/31/EC.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2008; 141: 57-66
Van Gyseghem JM
We often restrict the analysis of eHealth services to a concept of privacy. In this article, we'll demonstrate that other legislation can apply to those services as Directive 2000/31/EC on Ecommerce. By creating telematic networks or infrastructure, eHealth services are offering information services. But what are the consequences with such concept? What are the duties and rights for the actors of the network(s)? We'll try to answer to some questions, even if it won't be exhaustive.
Open Access
Open Access: AR is Fully Compliant with Mandates from NIH and Other Funding Agencies.
Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2008 Dec; 291(12): 1573
Albertine KH, Antin PB, Padhye S, Pendleton A
Open access: implications for evidence-based practice.
J Emerg Nurs. 2008 Dec; 34(6): 561-3
Epstein BA
A new open access option from the american journal of neuroradiology.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2008 Nov; 29(10): 1805
Castillo M
Automated compound verification using 2D-NMR HSQC data in an open-access environment.
Magn Reson Chem. 2008 Nov 7;
Keyes P, Hernandez G, Cianchetta G, Robinson J, Lefebvre B
Since the introduction of NMR prediction software, medicinal chemists have imagined submitting their compounds to corporate compound registration systems that would ultimately display a simplified pass/fail result. We initially implemented such a system based on HPLC and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LCMS) data that is embedded within our industry standard sample submission and registration process. By using gradient-heteronuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC) experiments, we have extended this concept to NMR data
Speed bump for open access to genomic data.
Ann Neurol. 2008 Oct; 64(4): A16-7
Patoine B
Impact of strong selection for the PrP major gene on genetic variability of four French sheep breeds(Open Access publication).
Genet Sel Evol. 2008 Nov-Dec; 40(6): 663-80
Palhiere I, Brochard M, Moazami-Goudarzi K, Laloeë D, Amigues Y, Bed'hom B, Neuts E, Leymarie C, Pantano T, Cribiu EP, Bibé B, Verrier E
Effective selection on the PrP gene has been implemented since October 2001 in all French sheep breeds. After four years, the ARR "resistant" allele frequency increased by about 35% in young males. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of this strong selection on genetic variability. It is focussed on four French sheep breeds and based on the comparison of two groups of 94 animals within each breed: the first group of animals was
Evolution of the polymorphism at molecular markers in QTL and non-QTL regions in selected chicken lines (Open Access publication).
Genet Sel Evol. 2008 Nov-Dec; 40(6): 639-61
Loywyck V, Bed'hom B, Pinard-van der Laan MH, Pitel F, Verrier E, Bijma P
We investigated the joint evolution of neutral and selected genomic regions in three chicken lines selected for immune response and in one control line. We compared the evolution of polymorphism of 21 supposedly neutral microsatellite markers versus 30 microsatellite markers located in seven quantitative trait loci (QTL) regions. Divergence of lines was observed by factor analysis. Five supposedly neutral markers and 12 markers in theQTL regions showed F(st) values greater than 0.15. However, the
Genetic variability in residual feed intake in rainbow trout clones and testing of indirect selection criteria (Open Access publication).
Genet Sel Evol. 2008 Nov-Dec; 40(6): 607-24
Grima L, Quillet E, Boujard T, Robert-Granié C, Chatain B, Mambrini M
Little is known about the genetic basis of residual feed intake (RFI) variation in fish, since this trait is highly sensitive to environmental influences, and feed intake of individuals is difficult to measure accurately. The purpose of this work was (i) to assess the genetic variability of RFI estimated by an X-ray technique and (ii) to develop predictive criteria for RFI. Two predictive criteria were tested: loss of body weight during feed deprivation and compensatory growth during re-feeding. Ten
PLoS Biology at 5: the future is open access.
PLoS Biol. 2008 Oct 28; 6(10): e267
Bloom T, Ferguson C, Gross L, Maccallum CJ, Milton J, Shields R, Wai S, Weaver J, Williams L
Open access.
Oral Oncol. 2008 Oct 9;
Scully C