HealthCommentaryA recent Harris Interactive survey revealed that Internet health information consumption is once again on the rise. In 2006, 80% of connected U.S. adults reported having searched for health information, compared to 72% the year before. But, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, that’s only part of the story. According to Doug Hirsch, founder […]
For many caregivers of my generation, technology has been viewed with double suspicion. First has been our concern that it would separate us from the people we serve, undermining touch and trust. Second has been the worry that technology in the wrong hands could drive policy in the wrong direction — limiting choice, access, coverage, […]
Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton. He is a philosopher by trade who has thought a lot about poverty, distribution of wealth, and why and how the wealthy give back or don’t. If you’d like to see him in action, look in Dec. 18’s New York Times (What should a billionaire give, […]
The other day I came across an inspirational statement from the UK’s General Medical Council. Putting aside whether or not that system is good, bad, or somewhere in-between, the language resonated with me. Here it is: The duties of a doctor registered with the UK’s General Medical Council (2006) Patients must be able to trust […]
Health Politics is on location this week at the Consumer Health World conference in Washington D.C., and we’re getting a close-up look at just how quickly the consumer empowerment movement is taking hold. The focus here is on giving patients more choice and control over their health care decisions, largely by giving them more control […]
I’ve been spending a great deal of time over the past few years advancing the notion of leveraging technology to expand connectivity efficiently and beyond normal geographic borders. Mainly I’ve been concerned about “health connectivity,” which encompasses three things: 1) Efficiently connecting members of the health care team, including informal family caregivers. 2) Connecting those […]
In this week’s Health Politics program, I discuss a new way of viewing health in the workplace called Health and Productivity Management, or HPM. As you probably know, and as I’ve discussed in previous Health Politics programs, our unique American approach to health care — defining coverage as a non-transferable benefit of employment, an approach […]
