[telemedicine] Personalized Web Pages for Hospitalized Patients

[Medical Informatics News]

California-based Sutter Health
recently*launched a program in its hospitals that allows the families of patients to create personalized Web
pages to post information on the patient, according to the Sacramento Bee.* Families can use a home
computer to update the Web page, or they can use computers in hospital waiting rooms or
library.**Called*CarePages, the*service
e-mails the patient’s friends and family when the Web page is updated. Interested parties can respond with messages
to the patient and the patient’s immediate family. The Web pages, which are password-protected, *help reduce
calls to nurses in the intensive care unit, which can be disruptive. The service can be a godsend to those who are
designated as the ‘point person’ during a family crisis. A centralized place for dispersing information on the
patient’s condition decreases the amount of phone calls and repition of information and can also stem the
proliferation of mis-information. However, privacy concerns loom.


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