More Women Seek Online Health Information
A new European survey has found women are more likely than men to seek health information online. Although men are far more likely to use the internet for general use and to send emails than women, the survey finds that women are 12 per cent more likely than men to use the Internet to search […]
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MSN Health Becomes Top US Health Website
The latest rankings of health related-websites place MSN (Microsoft Network) Health as the most visited US health Web site. MSN Health surged into the top spot by attracting 2.1 million unique visitors in the week ending June 23, knocking WebMD, the previous leader off the number one slot. WebMD in second place attracted 1.49 million […]
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Study Questions Criticism of Online Health Advice
A new study suggests that despite much adverse press coverage there is little evidence to discourage consumers from obtaining health information from the Internet. The authors of the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, criticise previous studies and media reports, which have suggested that up to 90 per cent of health […]
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Scotland Invests in Joined up Health and Social Care
The Scottish Executive announced last week that it will invest in developing data sharing and common data standards to help provide joined up health and social care as part of a £30 million programme of investment in e-government projects. The funding will be used to support the development of smartcards, data sharing, data standards and […]
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Website Unites Health Support Online
A new website aims to become the friends reunited of online health information services by linking together people who are coping with the similar diseases or injuries. The site, www.thirdaid.com, is designed to enable people to seek out others who have the same problem so that they can help each other by sharing information and […]
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Medicdirect and Tiscali Join Up for New Health Channel
Medicdirect, the UK health web site with content provided by NHS consultants, has signed up to provide a new health section for European internet company, Tiscali. The partners say the new section on the Tiscali portal offers information on everything from minor ailments to major operations, a virtual body tour and video clips illustrating medical […]
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European Mobile Health Takes First Steps
Mobile health aims to do nothing less than turn traditional healthcare on its head. As numerous speakers at Mobile Health Europe pointed out, to describe care provided away from a doctor’s office or hospital clinic as "remote care" misses the point entirely if you’re a patient. The promise of mobile healthcare is to enable care […]
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Mobile Mental Health EPR a European First
Mental Health services are rarely seen as being on the glamorous side of information technology in healthcare but a groundbreaking Dutch project has shown the benefits of providing mental health professionals with the very latest in mobile technology. Backed by the specialist Robert Fleury hospital in The Hague, a project to develop mobile electronic patient […]
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New Quality Mark Launched for Health Information
A new website and "Triangle Mark" have been launched by the Centre for Health Information Quality (C-H-i-Q’s) to help raise standards for online and offline health information. The new site Hi Quality, has been backed by Department of Health funding , and was developed as part of C-H-i-Q’s quality assurance programme, recently implemented across all […]
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Mobile Health Alliance to Launch in Europe
European healthcare providers, clinicians and technology firms involved in developing mobile healthcare applications and technologies are to be invited to join a European Mobile Health Alliance to be launched in May. The new European body is to be established as the European arm of MoHCA (Mobile Healthcare Alliance), a non-for-profit association dedicated to promoting the […]
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