Latest Breaking news – Govt plans £600 million cuts to England’s NHS IT scheme..

Chancellor Alastair Darling is set to announce “delays” to parts of the £12 billion NHS IT project in England in his pre-Budget Report …..Read more

This is  cause and effect situation one has to face in this economic climate, delaying what could potential be a value-added way of working due to costs is a cross we have tobear with the NHS services.

Do we consunmers or patients not have a say in this decision making? Or are we suppose to leave with it and wait till they sort out their priorities in the long run…I hate to admit it but the health care system in the UK is slowly showing similarities to the health care in the developing world, the keyword is DELAY

Why Americans pay more for health care

Apparently, ok..accordng to a survey by McKinsey Quartely; the largest and fastest growing spending by Americans is on Outpatient care which means  “same-day hospital care and visits to physicians’ offices”

Outpatient care

The high and fast-growing cost of outpatient care reflects a structural shift in the United States away from inpatient settings, such as overnight hospital stays. Today, the US system delivers 65 percent of all care in outpatient contexts, up from 43 percent in 1980, and well above the OECD average of 52 percent. In theory, this shift should help to save money, since fixed costs in outpatient settings tend to be lower than the cost of overnight hospital stays. In reality, however, the shift to outpatient care has added to—not taken away from—total system costs because of the higher utilization of outpatient care in the United States

Google Health adds telehealth services to the mix

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/google-health-adds-telehealth-services-mix

The Future of the Internet

The Imagining the Internet Center is a research organisation who explore and provide insights into emerging network innovations, global development, dynamics, diffusion and governance.

http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org/

Love the look and feel of the site, very informative with archives of Internet related activities and growth since the Big Bang till date…There is something everyone, newbies, students, teachers, professionals etc

Forbes Article: How the Internet is Changing Healthcare

Great article that includes a twitter case study from Mayo and a “virtual world hospital.” More debate to get management over the hump on social media.

How the Internet is Changing Healthcare

Everyone is blogging, twitting or wikipeding about it…

The list is endless and information is overflowing….I am amazed how much publicity Web 2.0 is receiving, the hype is just too much…I am not shortlisted when it comes to online information, conferences, podcasts about Health care and use of Social media…which is great for me AND I am certainly not complaining about it..It just makes organising all my research as one a REAL NIGHTMARE…

Well I promise to keep you all updated as I have find anything interested to share with you all. As my Philosophy in life goes, to share is to gain; Knowledge is to be shared and tapping into the sources i.e. through conversing, networking, collaboration, books, Google etc. There is power in knowing and it is good food for the brain..Doctor’s order!

VIP LiveWire: Web 2.0 – hype and truth

A Must Read Article:

VIP LiveWire: Web 2.0 – hype and truth

Events attending…

Jennifer Zelmer, CEO of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), will give a public lecture at City University London on Tuesday 27 October, examining “Why ehealth matters to patients”

The event will begin at 6:30pm in Room A130, College Building, 280 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PB. For further information or to reserve a place, please click here.

Looking forward to this lecture…If you are  interested in coming you have to reserve your place online as it might be a packed event.  Thanks to the Health informatics student @ City University

Other upcoming events which will I’ll be attending is the E-health conference @ Birmingham on the 9-10th Nov 09, I am looking forward to certain speakers on the day who will be talking about the future of IT in NHS in response to Health records online, social networking etc…

An opportunity for me to ask questions and tap into their overflowing “knowledge”, Social Networking indeed…………

ASSIST: London and South East Branch 18 November

Looking into the future: emerging technology and its use in supporting health care data

BCS Office, 5 Southampton St, London www.bcs.org/assist/londonse/events

Research conducted on e-patients and social media use

Research on e-patients and the use of social media for health

View more presentations from Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center.

Question: What tools would make Web 2.0 and Healthcare work for both patient and doctors?

I would like your opinions what type of Social media tools will be “”Nice to have” as part of your role as either a patient or health professionals..

Ok…ill give you an example..The use of SECOND LIFE 3D virtual reality site where patient can meet their doctors online and share problems without an initial visit to the surgery or clinic.

Now your turn…….in the meantime check out this article below

Do hospitals need to enter the world of social media? by Nancy Cawley Jean