As of 2011, over 75% of the US population uses the internet. Eighty percent of these internet users are looking up health information online. Almost 20% of internet users have also gone online to look for others with similar medical problems.
Sixty percent of internet users for medical information think the information is either the same or better than the information received from their own doctor. Interesting enough, of those folks using the internet for health information, almost 60% of them did not discuss this information with their doctor.
What are patients looking at exactly? First and foremost they are looking at information related to their own condition around the web. This may include diagnostic options, treatment side effects, and for second opinions. Also, they may be looking up their doctor and his/her practice specifically for reputation [...]

5 Facts about Healthcare Enterprise Information Management

Fact #1: Every healthcare entity, agency, campus or non-profit knows what software it utilizes for its business operations. The applications may be in silos, not accessible by other groups or departments, sometimes within the team that is responsible for it. If information were needed from groups across the enterprise, it has to be requested, in business terminology, of the host group, who would then go to the source of information (the aforementioned software and/or database), retrieve what is needed and submit it to the requestor - hopefully, in a format the requestor can work with (i.e., excel for further analysis as opposed to a document or PDF).
Fact #2: Because business terminology can be different WITHIN an organization, there will be further "translating" required when incorporating information that is gathered from the different software packages. This can be a nightmare. The gathering of information, converting it into a different format, translating it into common business terminology and then preparing it for consumption is a lengthy, expensive process - which takes us to Fact #3 [...]

Information About Medical During the Adoption Process

When individuals put their baby up for adoption, they need to complete adoption information disclosure forms about themselves. There are generally three types of information that they have the option of providing. They are identifying information, such as full name and contact information; non-identifying information, such as race, religion, ethnicity, education and occupation; and then family medical information and history about themselves. Of these, complete and accurate disclosure of physical and medical information is extremely essential for the present and future well-being of the child, and unlike identifying information, this information cannot be used to identify the birth parents.
Non-identifying physical information, such as race, eye and hair color, physical build, education, occupation and other descriptive physical attributes assist in helping potential parents during the selection process of a child, and it gives them some sense of what attributes and physical characteristics the child may have. The accuracy of adoption information disclosure forms should not be looked at as an intrusion into the biological parents' private information, but rather as a means of providing the most accurate information to all parties [...]