Patient Education, Home Health, and Weblogs
If you piece together RSS news readers, weblogs, Groove, and the healthcare system what do you get? Here's what I can imagine:
1) Departments in the hospital/health organization publishing important content for patients to read. I'm not just talking about "The clinic hours for Friday are changed to XYZ." I am talking about meaningful patient education data that is timely. My organization fielded a tremendous amount of Mad Cow related questions recently...it sure would have been nice to post what Mad Cow is, how one gets it, etc.
2) Patients can subscribe to the feeds they are interested in.
3) With NewsDesk (from http://www.wildgrape.net/ ) a patient can take an article that interests them and pop it into a Groove Workspace for discussion with their provider. Or with friends. You get the picture.
4) With Tim Knip's Interop Tool (http://www.suite75.net/blog/mt/tim/) you can set up collaborative blogging.
The initial set up for this system of customized content moving from the public arena to private and back would be a little daunting, but worth the effort in my book. An organization can now get information out to their constituents, have that launch private discussions, and collaboratively maintain this eco-system. The key piece is Groove's Web Services which lets any activities move into a more intimate (and secure) setting in case the patient has personal questions.
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