Santé et Internet

Le site PasseportSanté.net, l'une des vitrines Web francophones les plus fréquentées en matière de prévention de la maladie et de promotion de la santé, est à vendre, a appris Le Devoir.

a ministre de la Santé Roselyne Bachelot annonce que "les premières téléconsultations" d'un médecin par internet "auront lieu au début 2011"

Le Canada aura dépensé près d'un demi-milliard de dollars de moins dans le secteur des médicaments grâce à l'implantation d'un réseau permettant aux pharmaciens et aux médecins d'accéder directement aux dossiers informatisés de leurs patients. Ces dossiers énumèrent les médicaments prescrits aux patients et fournissent un historique médical qui permet d'éviter de potentielles interactions médicamenteuses ou réactions allergiques.

L'étude attribue ces économies à l'adhésion accrue aux traitements médicamenteux de la part des patients, à la hausse de la productivité des pharmaciens, à la diminution de l'occurrence des effets indésirables de médicaments, et à la baisse des abus médicamenteux.

The right technology, medical experts say, can potentially overcome two major hurdles to the adoption of electronic health records by doctors: cost and complexity.

The government plans to spend $19 billion in incentive payments — up to $44,000 per doctor, and gave practices five years to adopt electronic records before penalties begin.

“With the right software that is cloud-based, the iPad is going to be transformational in health care,”

The brothers are also betting that Internet technology and Apple’s iPad can make electronic records far easier to use and less expensive

There is a paradigm shift in public sector governance from government centricity to citizen centricity.

Gov 2.0 is the use of Web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, blogs, and social networking sites, by government to engage with citizens, develop policy and deliver services.

In Kenya, if you charged women just 50p for an insecticide-treated bednet (one of the most effective low-cost prophylactics against malaria) demand dropped 75 per cent. Uptake of deworming drugs—an important factor in child development—dropped 80 per cent if a small charge was applied. And in October 2005, the Bamako initiative received a fatal blow from a paper in the British Medical Journal. The study took epidemiological data from 20 African countries and projected what would happen if user fees were removed. The conclusion was that, each year, the lives of 233,000 children under five would be saved.