The Safety of Health-Medical Information on the Net
January 26, 2009 – 09:39 by Dani Iswara. Words count: 288.Last updated: Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 0:56.
Dani Iswara .Net agree that online health-medical information become an important resources. How safety is those info on the Internet. Especially in decision making by consumer. Information and communication technologies (ICT) could facilitate collaboration in health/medical area. It help symptom management and potentially increase of such interventions to patients who are unable face-to-face consultation, rehabilitation or self-management programs.
Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0: Tensions and Controversies in the Field said that in the era of Medicine 2.0 and Health 2.0:
- doctors and patients involved,
- provides personalized health care,
- provides mobile medical education (tele-education),
- combination of traditional/private and collaborative practices in medicine,
- enduser-self-decision making.
The safety of inaccurate health-medical information on the Internet is one of those issues.
The new websites increasing each year are contributed by blogs (Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers). Medical bloggers most frequently reported including hyperlinks to original sources. They spending more time to do a verification and quotation of the facts.
Do you remember the previous post about Quality of Health-Medical Information on the Internet? It needs more attention from both providers and consumers.
Back to the patient-doctor relationship. This paper, Randomized Controlled Trial of an Internet-Based Versus Face-to-Face Dyspnea Self-Management Program for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Pilot Study shows both dyspnea self-management programs reducing dyspnea in the short term effectively.
In some cases, telemedicine is not a dream/fantasy anymore. See Telemedisin bukan Khayalan and Konsultasi Dokter via Webcam ala Telemedicine (both in bahasa Indonesia; articles on Dani Iswara .Net).
There would be more interaction between doctor and patient over the Internet. A virtual consultation, physical examination, treatment and collaboration.
As a blogger and/or health-medical blogger, what should we do to increase the safety of health-medical information on the Internet?
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Comment by podelz on February 4, 2009 at 09:46:18
using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows XP
This is very nice idea. In my opinion it’ll good for consultation, doctor is not able to make a prescription using this tools, because for the prescription it’s better for doctor to meet the patient.
:P
So, when you want to bulid this tools??
Comment by Dani Iswara on February 4, 2009 at 10:22:58
using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Gentoo Linux
- podelz:
Yes, better if there is a valid physician-patient face-to-face relationship.
But for some reasons, based on eg. online prescribing guidelines, it may be suitable to do a tele-prescribing for an established patient with safety.
Some technical guys out there have already built their tools, I guess.
Comment by Khairuddin Syach on February 4, 2009 at 12:21:18
using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows XP
virtual consultation? when this tools can be applied Dan?
Comment by Dani Iswara on February 4, 2009 at 12:55:06
using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Gentoo Linux
- Khairuddin Syach:
Pak Khai,
actually, some of doctor’s blog already have an informal online consultation on their pages
or by mail lists, forums, twitter, facebook, and chat/webcam (maybe)
see common telemedicine in Indonesia on Telemedisin bukan Khayalan
Comment by bang diod on February 5, 2009 at 15:09:36
using Mozilla Firefox 3.0 on GNU/Linux
have u try it before ???
cuma negor n ade post baru di blog ane
Comment by dani on February 5, 2009 at 15:56:05
using Opera 10.00 on GNU/Linux
- bang diod:
what do you mean, bang?
telemedicine services?
not yet for the complicated system
Comment by George on February 19, 2009 at 10:18:36
using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP
Some on line services are more private and secure than others. You should read the terms of agreement before using them. We like to use housedoc.us, which is an on line communications portal between patients and physicians, that’s HIPAA compliant, free and easy to use.