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Shopping for Health Information
Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 2000In this time of ongoing health care changes, consumers need to become better informed to actively participate in their health care decisions. As a result, hospital libraries are being challenged to address this need. Scottsdale Healthcare's Health Sciences Libraries have responded to this challenge by establishing a Health Information Center at the ...
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Stewardship of Health Information
HealthcarePapers, 2014Today's communications technology has greatly facilitated patient access to health information in general. In some instances, and with a growing expectation and tendency, patients also have access to their own health information. This brief commentary focuses on the role of physicians and the medical profession from the perspective of the medical ...
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Personalized Health Information
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2009This is the second in a series of articles from Planetree, an international nonprofit organization founded in 1978 that's "committed to improving medical care from the patient's perspective." For more information, go to www.planetree.org.
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Information, Consciousness, and Health
EXPLORE, 2007A 16-year empirical assessment of anomalous human/machine interactions provides strong evidence that consciousness can add information to otherwise random digital strings. A parallel program of remote perception studies establishes the inverse process: the anomalous acquisition of information about distant physical targets. Remarkably, neither of these
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Health literacy and consumer health information
Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2023AbstractThe rigours of the past few years have demonstrated the importance of good health literacy levels with the imperative of being able to obtain and interpret information to maintain and improve one's health never more apparent. With this in mind, this issue is focused on consumer health information, the gender and population group differences ...
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Health Information and the Like
Science, 2013![Figure][1] CREDIT: ROBERT CHURCHILL/ISTOCKPHOTO In their Report “Social influence bias: A randomized experiment” (9 August, p. [647][2]), L. Muchnik et al. explore whether Internet rating dynamics are influenced by the online community.
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Health Education and Information
2014The World Health Organisation defines health education as any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes'. In the narrowest sense, being health literate means being able to understand medicine leaflets, follow self-care instructions ...
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In the Spotlight: Health Information Systems
IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 2008This article reviews the integration of health data in health information systems. The importance of electronic health records (EHRs) and their integration as well as current developments in this field are presented.
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Health Information Privacy and Public Health
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2003Protecting the privacy of individually-identifiable health data and promoting the public’s health often seem at odds. Privacy advocates consistently seek to limit the acquisition, use, and disclosure of identifiable health information in governmental and private sector settings.
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