Topic: California Healthcare Foundation

Ask many questions when considering major surgery

0 View Larger Image . How should patients respond when a doctor recommends they undergo a major surgical procedure?. . They should ask a lot of...
The new California HealthCare Foundation website provides a more engaging online gathering place for grantees with new graphics, site architecture...
Software Solutions Company, Parse3, Announces Web Development and Technology Operations Partnership with the California HealthCare Foundation....

Health apps soon will get RockHealth incubator

0 . As a business-development intern at Apple Inc., Halle Tecco noticed that one category of apps looked less healthy than the others: namely, the ...

Consumers Not Too Psyched About ‘Evidence-Based Health Care’

A study published online today by Health Affairs does not bring good news for proponents of " evidence-based health care," an umbrella term for comparative effectiveness research, shared decision making, cost transparency and the like. After getting consumer input via an online survey ...

Use of Personal Health Records is Growing

About seven percent of people in the United States have used a personal health record, double the number of users from a year earlier, according to a new survey of about 1,850 people. The survey was sponsored by the California HealthCare ...

Survey: Patients May Lie if Electronic Medical Records Are Shared

Patients already lie to their doctors. Privacy concerns still hover around EMRs, with 68% of survey respondents reporting some degree of worry about what happens to their personal information once it's stored in a doctor's computer. (Those that did use ...
According to a report released today by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the California HealthCare Foundation, 61% of adults look online for health information. Tagged or categorized online content about health or medical issues Posted comments, queries ...

Scope expands for national personal health technology project

Project HealthDesign, a national program aimed at developing new personal health applications for people with chronic diseases, was awarded an additional $5.3 million to expand the project's scope and continue it through 2012.. The project was launched in 2006 with ...

Which Patients Are Going to Retail Clinics?

There's been plenty of debate over the walk-in clinics cropping up in drug stores and big-box retailers. In a new study that helps fill that gap, researchers pooled data from 1.35 million visits to more than 300 clinics operated by ...