Information Therapy Blog

I was looking at the Healthwise website and The Center for Information Therapy and came across a blog by the team there with some good discussion topics. It is definitely worth your read. Here were a few things that caught my eye:

• Can we more effectively engage consumers in better managing their own health by learning from Hollywood or video games about how to draw people in through entertainment? By doing so, can we make health care “fun” or at least truly engaging? (entry)
  
• Since research shows that 40%-80% of everything a doctor tells a patient in the office is forgotten, taking along a patient advocate is a great strategy. Unfortunately, it is not always an option or sufficient. In order to ensure effective communication, every patient should leave the doctor’s office with an information prescription (Ix). (entry)