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Resounding Health Unites Balkanized
US Government Health Information
Other topics:
Patient
Deductible Data,
Intensity-Modulated
Radiotherapy (IMRT),
Cardiac Diagnostic
Technology
PRWEB
June 13, 2010
Doctors at Resounding Health combine disease and treatment
information from dozens of government sites to help patients
learn about and manage their medical conditions
Boston, MA - During National Health IT week (June 14-18), most
of the emphasis will be on electronic health records (EHR),
insurance and billing systems which will have a delayed and only
indirect effect on consumers' health and perceptions of
healthcare reform. The Obama administration is spending tens of
billions of dollars on health information technology (HIT) yet
it is nearly impossible for consumers to locate and use
government health information because it is scattered across
dozens of uncoordinated web sites produced by different
agencies. Furthermore none of these sites are well aligned with
the top health issues of interest to consumers that have been
identified in surveys by Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and
American Life Project. Reaching a major milestone, Resounding
Health™ has now united government consumer health information
into a single medical knowledge base that can be customized to
meet individual consumers' needs for personalized and
participatory medicine. |
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For the average consumer,
these multiple complex steps are impossible and instead they'd
just type their disease into a general search engine and end up
with who knows what
Tara Parker-Pope of the New York Times told NBC Today Show host
Matt Lauer in 2008 there are many great health information sites
but "the thing about a 'dot-gov' at the end of your web site is
that you know it is credible information, so I really think that
patients ought to start there. Look for the 'dot-gov'...." This
is much easier said than done. Agencies like the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA.gov), the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC.gov), the National Institutes of Health
(NIH.gov) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA.gov) each
publish their own consumer health information that is
disconnected from similar, often repetitive and sometimes
inconsistent information published by their sister agencies.
Take the NIH. Resounding Health™ researchers identified more
than two million pages of health information at its nearly two
dozen different institutes where each is focused on its own
alphabet soup of abbreviations, acronyms and medical terms that
are meaningless to most consumers. Each of these institutes
maintains its own web site with different, and often overly
complicated, user interface designs, terminology, search
functions and site maps.
Doctors and information engineers at Resounding Health™ have now
combined all of this information into a single knowledge base
and organized it using their proprietary Medical Ontology
Engine. Users can not only easily search this knowledge base,
but can create customized remixes of the information for their
own unique needs, and include information from elsewhere on the
web, using Resounding Health's powerful CaseBook™ technology.
Resounding Health helps users collect, organize, personalize,
store and easily share the results of their research with
friends, family and healthcare providers. Dr. Alan Littleford,
co-founder and head of technology development at Resounding
Health said: "For the average consumer, the NIH is a medical
Tower of Babel. Resounding Health™ is the universal translator."
These unique capabilities, as well as the focus on one-stop
shopping for authoritative government health information,
distinguish Resounding Health from other health verticals such
as MayoClinic.com and WebMD.
Take the example a pregnant woman who has just been told by her
doctor that she may have a serious condition called
preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is a common complication of pregnancy
that affects blood pressure and kidney function. In order to
locate government information on this disease, the patient would
have to go to at least six different sites: NICHD (National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development) for pregnancy
information, NHLBI (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
for information on high blood pressure and NIDDK (National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) for
information on the kidney function. Then, if she wanted
information on treatments, she would have to go to FDA.gov
because none of the diseases at NIH.gov are linked to
information on drugs, side effects, brand names, generics, etc.
provided by the FDA. For additional treatment options, she would
have to visit NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine). All of these centers and agencies are
branches of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS.gov) which operates yet another consumer health portal
healthfinder.gov.
"For the average consumer, these multiple complex steps are
impossible and instead they'd just type their disease into a
general search engine and end up with who knows what," said Dr.
Mark Boguski, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Resounding
Health. Resounding Health™ lets them search all of these
government health information sources in a single step and
provides a comprehensive summary of all relevant information
that can be easily saved and shared for later discussion with
their healthcare provider.
Resounding Health's knowledge base and CaseBook™ technology is
also powering other medical web sites including Celebrity
Diagnosis™, the premier source of Teachable Moments in Medicine™
for increasing consumer health awareness and medical knowledge.
Future releases of Resounding Health™ will enable users to link
CaseBooks to their personal electronic medical records (EMR)
such as Dossia Indivo, Microsoft HealthVault and similar
products from HIMSS, the Healthcare Information Management and
Systems Society.
About ResoundingHealth.com:
Resounding Health Incorporated was co-founded by Mark Boguski,
M.D. and Alan Littleford, Ph.D. Dr. Boguski has held positions
at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the U.S.
National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. National Library of
Medicine and as an executive in the biotechnology and
pharmaceutical industries. He is a former vice president of
Novartis and was honored as a Visionary and Influencer by the
Personalized Medicine Coalition in 2006. Dr. Boguski was elected
to both the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy
of Sciences the American College of Medical Informatics in 2001.
He is currently on the faculty of Harvard at the Francis
Countway Library of Medicine and at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Littleford was the co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
of Healthscape, Inc. Prior to this, he held a number of key
positions in the IT industry as Principal Architect, Lead
Developer or Founder at companies such as Cogent Software, Sitka
(a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems), Siebel Systems and Network
Associates. Littleford has also served as a highly sought-after
consultant for a number of both major companies and technology
start-ups. |
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