2009 July | inCapitalHealth

Web 2.0 in medicine

Posted in Medical Education on Jul 16th, 2009

Seems like everywhere you look there are stories about Web 2.0 in medicine.

Breast cancer screening means 1 in 3 have unnecessary treatment?

Posted in Breast Cancer treatment in London on Jul 15th, 2009

one in three women diagnosed with breast cancer after a screening test will have slow-growing forms of cancer that could safely go untreated

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Kru Research’s Patient Rising Report

Posted in Healthcare on Jul 14th, 2009

Krū Research is a global think tank focused on “empowered patients” – those they say are increasingly marshalling digital technologies and communicating with peers to actively manage their health. Kru’s report called Patients Rising looks into how to reach ‘empowered, digital health consumers’.

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London’s health report

Posted in Healthcare on Jul 13th, 2009

The London Assembly its latest Focus on London report – one has been produced almost every year since 1890. It’s a good place to start if you want to get a better understanding of the UK’s capital. The Guardian has collated the health data into one spreadsheet and used this to run an interactive map comparing each of London’s boroughs with the others.

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Healthcare systems

Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2009

Europeans have some of the world’s best hospitals, and have made great strides in fighting problems like obesity and heart disease.

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Google might hold NHS patient records

Posted in Healthcare, Uncategorized on Jul 8th, 2009

Times ratchets up the fear factor with a story which says that under a Conservative government responsibility for holding health records might pass to the private sector.

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Ablation technologies

Posted in Spine on Jul 7th, 2009

Following on from Nigel Kellow’s recent article on the benefits of Image guided RadioFrequency Ablation (RFA) for patients with bone mesatases here’s a piece from Mediligence which talks about how the proliferation of ablation technologies thanks to their many clinical benefits.

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Institute of Medicine in the US Recommends Research To Determine Which Health Care Approaches Work Best

Posted in Healthcare on Jul 6th, 2009

“Health care decisions too often area matter of guesswork because we lack good evidence to inform them,” said committee co-chair Harold C. Sox, editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia. “For example, we spend a great deal on diagnostic tests for coronary heart disease in this country, but we [...]

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