Health Information–Information Quality
Source: The Washington Post
“Rx for the Future: Get an Ix”
From the article, “[Donald] Kemper has a radical solution to end patients’ exhausting, disorienting and hazardous Web searches. Doctors should write “information prescriptions” that direct patients away from e-health’s more suspect specimens and to the more wholesome and nutritious health information on the Internet. Kemper and Molly Mettler, a senior vice president at Idaho-based Healthwise, have laid out a manifesto in their book “Information Therapy: Prescribed Information as a Reimbursable Medical Service”(Center for Information Therapy, 2002). The book urges doctors to harness technology for patients by administering “information therapy” — an “Ix” to accompany the usual Rx — rather than send them out alone to sort through the glut of Web health pages. For providing this service, doctors would be paid.”

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