WHCB: From ‘Informed Patient’ Care to ‘Patient Informed’ Care”

In a soon-to-be-published article, Ruth Gardiner argues, “we are seeing a shift from the ‘informed patient’ which has resulted from improved access to healthcare information, primarily from the Web, to the ‘participative patient’ as we move into Web 2.0 territory.” This distinction Gardiner makes is an important one.

See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog

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