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Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Health Populi

Those were the early days of the formation of patient social networks [Patients Like me was founded in 2004, and WEGO Health and Stupid Cancer in 2007]. .” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago.

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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

Pairing clinicians with patients requires tremendous amounts of time and planning, and doing this task manually only complicates the matter. . The process begins when a patient is referred to a specialist home health provider by his or her primary care physician. About Adeel Sarwar.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

First, some of the backstory: PLM was way ahead of its time, recognizing the power of peer-to-peer connections and the importance of data as currency long before many others in health care figured that out. It is impossible to paint them with a one-color brush. Probably not so great.