Addressing underutilization of consumer health information resource centers: a formative study * (RMP).
Problem: Four consumer health information centers in Richmond, Virginia, provide one-on-one assistance in accessing health information. Because they may not be fully utilized at present, an exploratory marketing study of factors affecting usage of the centers was conducted. Method: Observers counted center passers-by and tracked their paths....

Physicians Must Prepare for Move Toward 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 have access...

Palm Beach County Library Offers a First-of-its-Kind in the State of Florida Health Information Service With a $292,500 Grant From The Quantum Foundation.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Quantum Foundation is announcing the first-of its kind in the State of Florida community health information service for families and seniors with a $292,500 grant for a state-of-the art health information system to the Palm Beach County Library...

Magellan Health Services and Healthwise Team for New Behavior Change Tools.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-10 October 2008-Magellan Health Services and Healthwise Team for New Behavior Change Tools(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Magellan Health Services, a specialty health care management organization, and Healthwise, a provider of consumer health information, are teaming to offer Healthwise's Information Therapy (Ix) Conversations behavior...

PersonalPath Systems Implements Entrust Security for Launch of Privacy Solutions to Enable HIPAA-Compliant Portal Offerings by Large Health Insurance Plans.
* New Software and Services to Enable Plans to Rapidly Deploy Regional Web Portals to Serve and Connect Key Business Constituencies * Solutions to Support Privacy Via De-Identified Data Environments and Offer Immediate Response to Anticipated HIPAA Compliance Requirements * PPSI...

Aetna Supports Markle Foundation Efforts to Ensure Privacy and Security.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 July 2008-Aetna Supports Markle Foundation Efforts to Ensure Privacy and Security(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Aetna announced its support of a newly released Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information developed by Connecting for Health, a public-private collaboration operated by the Markle Foundation....

Personal health record remains elusive goal.
WASHINGTON -- President Bush, members of Congress, and key consumer organizations are all calling for the widespread implementation of electronic personal health records--and now it is time to convince the public of their worth, David Lansky, Ph.D., said at a meeting on health information technology sponsored by eHealth Initiative...

PA Governor Rendell Praises State Essay Winner; Five 10th Graders Honored at Health Careers Week Capitol Ceremony.
Career Expo Kicks Off Statewide Health Careers Week, Nov. 13-17 HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell today praised Lackawanna County 10th grader Katie Cosgrove for her winning Health Careers Week 2006 essay, and encouraged Pennsylvania's young adults to consider careers in the...

Oral health in long-term care facilities-CIHI data now available.
As part of CDHA's mandate to help you access data for dental hygiene care and policy research, we are working with the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) to bring you data on the oral health of residents in longterm care facilities in Ontario, British Columbia and a few...

The internet as a source of health information in three disparate communities.
Abstract A survey questionnaire was designed and implemented across three different communities to determine the current utilisation, importance, trust and future preference for the internet as a source of health information in three different socioeconomic groups. The following were the key results. Fewer respondents in the low...