Health 2.0 decreases income and visits to ER of chronic patients.

-half of the e-pacientes of the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona adopted healthy habits through various online projects

– comes a campaign to humanize the medicine and foster communication between doctors and patients

Pamplona, January 2012- the online interaction of chronic patients with health care professionals can reduce readmissions and visits to emergencyand save costs, because they are more informed about their illness and adhere better to the treatment, according to various studies that were presented last Thursday on the day health 2.0: new tools applied to health, organized by the Department of health of Navarre and area scientific Menarini. The Managing Director of the health-Osasunbidea Navarro service inaugurated this quote followed on Twitter tagged # salu20.

Hospital maternal Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, is a pioneer in the interactivity with the patients and has launched a model called liquid hospital, that breaks the physical moved there walls where are patients ”, explains the director of E-Health and health 2.0, Jorge Juan Fernández. Of the total number of patients who interact online with the Centre (the e-pacientes and e-cuidadores), more than half acknowledged, in a survey, have adopted a habit of healthy lifestyle in the network of hospital projects, which confirms the effectiveness of this new environment with the traditional consultation ”, concludes Fernández.

In addition to collecting suggestions for patients through social media, the Centre has been launched various projects of education and health care online, as one operating for 3 years, including a helpline and email service aimed at people with diabetesonly in its initial phase it has got significantly reduce their visits to emergency. ” The key is to be jointly responsible to the sick”, adds. The change of the model has given rise to other initiatives such as the portal guide metabolic, about rare diseases of metabolism, which collects useful information and which allows to make queries online and contact with other sufferers. Most of these diseases have very few affected, sometimes only 2 or 3 worldwide Spanish-speaking, and we already have examples of exchanges of experience very moving ”, indicates this expert.

Health 2.0 has benefits in patients and doctors. A study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Rehabilitation Research confirms their good results in cancer patients. A pilot project of online training on their pathology and interaction with the health personnel managed to the improvement in the process of making decisions about your treatment and less emotional impact medical decisions of risk ”. In the South Korea, an interactive program of control of glucose by telephone and Internet managed an average of 8.1 reduction mmHg, according to research published in the Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.

Present on the day of Pamplona experts agree relate technological progress and the improvement of the quality of care. The latest report of the body Red.es on the health details that 95% of the public health centres offer the possibility of prescriptions via telematics, to which they have access over 40 million citizens, and 65% are by appointment only on the Internet. Spanish doctors are among the most enthusiastic about the possibilities of new technologies in improving the health of patients, according to a recent survey from Accenture.

Humanize medicine

For Iñaki Gonzalez, Fundación Hospital Calahorra, who participated in the day, the hospitals and institutions coming into the world 2.0 must accept the premise that the doctor-patient relationship is no longer vertical downward, but horizontal, as equals ”. Contrary to what may seem, 2.0 technologies have been introduced the possibility of humanizing the medicine, to improve communication and make it bidirectional ”. In addition to his blog on human resources for health Sobrevivirrhhé, Iñaki Gonzalez has been involved in putting up campaign look at me: differentiated, backed by hundreds of professionals and institutions, and to promote humane treatment among health professionals to patients and to listen to your needs. Various studies have shown that most appreciate people with your doctor what to listen to them and that is what, according to this expert, provide social media.

In the same vein, the student of Medicine of the University of Navarra Aitor guitar you 6th promotes professional exchange Somosmedicina blog. In his view, the 2.0 environment is making the reduction of bureaucracy and the long queues at hospitals, and will make possible many professionals to regain the passion for medicine ”.