'Ix / Patient Education' Category

Patients Want Your Practice to Offer Online Services

Posted by Josh Padnick
February 25th, 2008 · Posted in General, Your Practice is Also a Business, The Business of Healthcare, Ix / Patient Education · Comments Off

This graph (if you can’t see it, click the “Read More” link below) was on this morning’s iHealthBeat. This is basically yet another indicator that patients are going to become increasingly choosy about where they get their medical care in the future.
Offering your patients the ability to view their medical records online doesn’t necessarily […]

My Thoughts from the 2007 Information Therapy Conference

Posted by Josh Padnick
October 11th, 2007 · Posted in Your Practice is Also a Business, Conferences, The Business of Healthcare, Ix / Patient Education · Comments Off

I’ll be honest. I was sort of conferenced out when I was heading to Park City, UT for the next Information Therapy Conference. I figure these conferences are only as valuable as the people I meet and the extent to which the information I learn impacts current or future behavior. “Conference Burn […]

Thoughts from the Information Therapy Conference

Posted by Josh Padnick
September 26th, 2006 · Posted in Conferences, The Business of Healthcare, Ix / Patient Education · 0 Comments

I’m here in Park City, UT for the sixth annual Information Therapy Conference. For the uninitiated, Information Therapy is simply the idea that Patient Education can be as “therapeutic” as medicine itself when exactly the right information is delivered at precisely the right time.
For example, one physician here at the conference said that after […]