How to sort health facts from fiction on the Web.
It's Saturday night. You suddenly feel a stabbing pain in your big toe. You wonder, "Could it be serious?" So you do what 80 percent of American Internet users do--you run to the computer and type "big toe pain" into a search engine. You get 346,000 results. One site...

Prepare to Move to Internet-Based Health Care.
ALBUQUERQUE -- Physicians need to stake a claim on some Internet bandwidth to avoid being left behind as medicine migrates from the Industrial Age into the Information Age of health care. So far, patients are well ahead of their physicians in using new online technologies. Patients now...

Memorial Health on Leapfrog Top Hospitals 2006 List.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing a commitment to quality and safety the Leapfrog Group has named Memorial Health to the organization's first Top Hospitals 2006 list. The list, containing 59 hospitals from around the country, is based on results from the Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety Survey,...

Ford Motor Company Chooses Optate's Online BENEFITcompanion.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 50,000 Ford Motor Company salaried active employees and retirees across the country can now access their health care and benefit information online with BENEFITcompanion, an innovative e-benefits portal from Optate, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company. Optate's...

AmericasDoctor Introduces Health Care Consumer Web Site For the Chronically Ill.
An Established Health Care Information and Pharmaceutical Services Company Seeks to Improve Lives CHICAGO, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Today AmericasDoctor, a well-established health information and pharmaceutical services company, launched its redesigned web site -- the only consumer health care portal entirely dedicated to...

Hospital Report 2001: 88 Per Cent of Patients Rate Care Excellent/Good.
TORONTO, July 16 /PRNewswire/ - A total of 88 per cent of patients surveyed rated care in Ontario's hospitals as either excellent or good in the findings of a report released today by Health and Long-Term Care Minister Tony Clement and Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) President David...

New Research From The Boston Consulting Group Reveals E-Health Paradox: It's Harder to Reach Patients Online Than to Have an Effect on Them.
A Big Challenge for Health Care Companies, But Not Insurmountable BOSTON, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Although the Internet is increasing its influence on how patients approach their health care, strategies borrowed from consumer sites fail to reach them, according to new research released today by...

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Debuts New Additions to Its Website, highmark.com.
PITTSBURGH, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is introducing new improvements to its website -- www.highmark.com -- to make it easier for members to manage their health plan and their health. The new services will make the personal home pages available to...

Phar-Mor Announces Opening of Online Store Powered By Web-Rx.
Outlet to Feature More Than 25,000 Over-the Counter Products, Health and Beauty Items and Vitamins at Everyday Low Prices Revamped PharMor.com Also Features a Complete Online Pharmacy, Lowest-Price Prescription Drug Finder and Answers to Pharmacy and Vitamin Questions YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June...

Pew Study Points to Eroding Attention to Information Quality - Health Web Site Accreditation Helps Close the Gap.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The 85 million Americans who use the Internet to gather health information need to know who is giving them advice - - and when it was last updated. But according to a study released Oct. 29 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project,...