Friday, July 25, 2008

Information therapy goes beyond evidenced-based info

By Joshua Seidman in the Health Care Blog

I had a fun meeting recently with some smart folks from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that raised questions about Ix that could use some clarification. When we talk about information therapy (Ix), we often drift into “evidence-based information” to help with some specific health condition.

That certainly is an important component of Ix, but it’s too limiting in many circumstances. When we talk about the “proactive delivery of the right information to the right person at the right time,” that has to encompass whatever the information needs of the consumer are.

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