Response to USA Today Article, “Communication Now Part of the Cure”

There was an interesting piece in last Wednesday’s USA Today, “Communication now part of the cure“. They published a Letter to the Editor I wrote (Continue reading “Get an ‘Ix’ with a Rx” ») on July 27 (page 10A).  Here’s the text:
Get an ‘Ix’ with a Rx
Joshua Seidman, president – Center for Information Therapy; Bethesda, [...]

Health Literacy or Death

Lots of interesting Ix-related stories have been in the media recently, but none more dramatic than the study from the Archives of Internal Medicine that demonstrated a significant relationship between inadequate health literacy and all-cause mortality in seniors. In fact, Baker et al (7/23/07; abstract at http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/14/1503) found that literacy is a more powerful predictor of [...]

Response to NYT Jane Brody Column on Understanding Doctors’ Communication

Although the New York Times took a pass on my letter in response to a Jane Brody column January 30 (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/health/30brody.html?ex=1170910800&en=c1237335b6037a06&ei=5070), I thought others might be interested…
To complement the expert suggestions in “The Importance of Knowing What the Doctor Is Talking About” (January 30, 2007), keep in mind that most people are “patients” in the [...]

Next-Generation Consumer Portals

With Revolution Health launching its new consumer portal, a newspaper reporter called me earlier this week to ask what I thought about new efforts such as this….
It’s clear to me that—even though they generally don’t express it this way—consumers are clamoring for information therapy (Ix). And just to be clear, Ix is not simply a [...]