MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'acor'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:53:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4298620&cid=t_173881_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fabout-patient-autonomy%2F2010.12.29 Recently, I was involved in a discussion on an email list serve and decided to takes some of my comments on patient autonomy and blog about them. This arose following a debate about whether the term “patient” engendered a sense of passivity and, therefore, whether the term should be dropped in favor of something else, like “client” or something similar. Having participated in the preparation and dissemination of the white paper on e-patients, I don’t see the need for “factions” or disagreements in the service of advancing Participatory Medicine. As Alan Greene aptly stated: “This is a big tent, with room for all.” I want all of my patients to be as autonomous as possible. In my view, their autonomy is independent of the doctor-patient r... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4298620 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:00:00 +0100 4298620 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3089548&cid=t_173881_150_f&fid=34889&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmamkting.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fwill-patients-find-value-in-discusions.html At the November, 2009, BDI Forum in New York City ("Healthcare Social Communications Leadership Forum Breakfast"), a question from the audience to a panel I was part of got to the core of the value of pharma to online patient communities. The question was "Should pharma be in discussion forums or lists frequented by patients? Do we need an industry consensus where we shouldn't go?"My colleague on the panel, Jonathan Richman (@jonmrich) noted that some consumer advocates speaking at the recent FDA public hearing said that under no circumstances should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to engage consumers in discussions on social networks. Jonathan thought that was too extreme. He suggested a few examples where such discussions could bring some value to the online patient community. He sai... Pharma Marketing Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3089548 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:47:00 +0100 3089548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1423657&cid=t_173881_147_f&fid=35750&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FHealthCareVox%2F%7E3%2F284739640%2Facors_gilles_frydman_email_rem.html Earlier today, I came across an interesting post on one of my must-read blogs, e-patients.net. John Grohol wrote an interesting review of a report I wrote about recently, The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media.  Grohol calls it a “nice overview of the current state of Health 2.0.”  However, he does feel one of the report’s implications, that “old-style virtual support groups didn't result in ‘practical solutions to chronic health challenges’” is really “off the mark.”  Jane Sarasohn Kahn, the author of the report said: “[i]ncreasing numbers of people are reaching out to others for more than the kind of support they might have found in the CompuServe health interest groups in the 1980s.&nbs... HealthCareVox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1423657 Tue, 06 May 2008 16:41:58 +0100 1423657 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1303243&cid=t_173881_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F03%2F14%2Ftrusted-doesnt-mean-accurate-or-up-to-date%2F Consumers are constantly told to look for “trusted” health content online (whatever that means), even though most consumers don’t systematically look for any markers for an article’s quality. And when they do, the markers have little relationship to actual article quality to begin with: A new study published in the journal Cancer recently confirmed what Josh Seidman of the Center for Information Therapy has also written about: the display of the source and date on a page is not correlated with the presence of high-quality information. The absence of those two markers is also not correlated with low-quality information. The one marker for inaccuracy found in the Cancer study was the presence of information about complementary and alternative medicine or CAM. CAM pa... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1303243 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:32:01 +0100 1303243