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Hakia says they’re tapping the expertise of librarians. As CEO Dr. Riza C Berkan writes on the Hakia blog:
Every Web search starts with two queries. One is X. The other one is “who knows X the best?” Because finding X is not enough if the author of that page does not know X himself/herself. […]

J Am Coll Radiol. 2008 Apr;5(4):593-7.
Quality of CT colonography-related web sites for consumers.
Sheran J, Dachman AH.
Department of Radiology, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
PURPOSE: Patients often request to undergo computed tomographic colonography (CTC) from radiologists or referring physicians on the basis of their personal examination of information on the Web. Therefore, the authors […]

Info.RxCases is a “companion to a new health information service that is being offered to patients and their families at the Herzl Family Practise Centre in Montreal, Quebec.”

Blogger Francesca Frati (previously mentioned here) writes:
The Patient health Information Service at Herzl (H-PHIS) opened its doors in early July of this year (2007) and is in the […]

But PatientsLikeMe seeks to go a mile deeper than health-information sites like WebMD or online support groups like Daily Strength. The members of PatientsLikeMe don’t just share their experiences anecdotally; they quantify them, breaking down their symptoms and treatments into hard data. They note what hurts, where and for how long. They list their drugs […]

I got a number of interesting responses to my post on Susannah Fox’s brief speech.
Susannah’s work at the Pew Internet & American Life Project is really good stuff and I enthusiastically recommend reading all of it- but I gave her a hard time for elements of her remarks at the Health 2.0 (non-)conference […]

I had a really interesting conversation last week with Mark Achler of Spine-health.com (and formerly of Emmi Solutions). Mark agreed to allow me to use GrandCentral to record the call- and I used SlideShare to make the SlideCast embedded below.

Above: Embedded SlideCast. If you’re reading this in an aggregator, you may need to […]

This is a good example of the kind of “Health 2.0″ stuff that baffles me. The speaker in this video is Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. She is speaking at the Health 2.0 Conference. You can watch the embedded video or read the text of her remarks […]

Blame Rachel. She started it by offering a critique of CNN’s Tips for savvy medical Web surfing:
In this section about searching for articles in the major medical literature database, PubMed, Guthrie advises reading just the beginning and end of the study, stating that “The conclusion will tell you whether the treatment they studied was […]

More about online consumer cancer information
Cancer Invest. 2008 Mar;26(2):202-7.
Internet health resources and the cancer patient.
Huang GJ, Penson DF.
Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA.
The last decade has witnessed an explosion of online information regarding cancer and healthcare. Accompanying this has been a large body of research […]

On the internet and patient education:
Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2008 Jan;12(1):55-63.
The internet: friend or foe when providing patient education?
Anderson AS, Klemm P.
James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
The Internet has changed how patients with cancer learn about and cope with their disease. Newly diagnosed patients with cancer often have complex […]

A stack of flyers for this online community was seen in the examination room of a gastroenterologist and passed on to me by an acquaintance.

Interesting. Seems that the site is a product of UBC Inc.
UBC makes Dipentum (Olsalazine) for the treatment of Ulcerative Colitis and Cimzia (Certolizumab Pegol) for the treatment of Crohn’s disease.
I […]

Made by DSHI Systems (who it appears have been making products like these for at least a few years), FreeMD is meant to be “…an electronic doctor that conducts an interview, analyzes symptoms, and provides expert advice — for free.”
It sounds like a good idea that’d be really hard to execute usefully…but it’s really pretty […]

Check out the press release from the Mayo Clinic:
ROCHESTER, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — Mayo Clinic Health Solutions and Microsoft Corporation’s Health Solutions Group announced today that they have entered into a strategic agreement to collaboratively develop tools that will empower people to manage their health and become engaged partners with their providers in a […]

When it comes to needs inside our hospital, we have expensive professional tools available on our intranet that allow clinicians to check for drug interactions. In preparation for our library’s eventual internet presence, I wanted to see if there was a free, consumer-oriented tool that we might feel okay recommending.
I decided to try out […]

“Patient Education Matters!” is a bi-weekly e-newsletter for the staff and volunteers of Inova Health System. The “Patient Education Matters!” blog is an abridged version of this publication available to the general public.

Why is David always on about this badgey stuff? Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!
Previously, I’ve noted the following blogs […]

(This is the last post of 2007.  I’m not addicted to blogging.  I mean it.  I can stop any time I want!)
MedlinePlus has a new page on Health Literacy with links to lots of good stuff.

These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Michelle Nguyen over at HippocraTech posted about a couple of places online to search for info about clinical trials: ClinicalTrials.gov and CenterWatch. Below are a few additional online resources.

I wrote a little about Healia’s PubMed/MEDLINE interface, but didn’t write up Healia’s interface for searching ClinicalTrials.gov. The filters Healia offers could be handy, but […]

I’m NOT obsessed with television just because I wrote about House MD, the writers strike, and now Scrubs. I’m not. Really.
…Oh, shut up and give me the remote.
The TV show Scrubs mentioned tonight both online rating of physicians and patients who rely on health information from Wikipedia.
Dr. Cox: So you’re declining chemo because […]

Patricia Anderson keeps posting slides for presentations she gives. If her slides are any indications, these presentations must be really, really good.
Created as a podcast for the Dental Informatics Online Community, this is snapshot of what is going on with social technologies and Web 2.0 in various healthcare communities.

These icons link to social bookmarking […]

(Just for the record: My original title for this post was “I’m in Ur Feteratid Serch, Getin’ You Sum Consumr Helth Info,” but I figured that this would only amuse a handful of people and annoy everyone else. If the joke doesn’t make sense to you, check out ICanHasCheezburger.)
Back in August I was contacted […]