Bill
Hettler, MD
Father of 6 unique people
Director University Health Service at the
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point since 1977
University Health Service Urgent Care Physician, 27 years
Software developer and technology consultant
Adjunct Professor, UW-Madison Family Practice Program; Physician's Assistant Program
Adjunct Professor, UW-Stevens Point School of Health Promotion and Human
DevelopmentBiases acknowledged
I am a Co-Founder of the National Wellness Institute
I am an advocate for physician directed self-care (I assist patients, I do not own them)
I am future-focused
I consider the audience to be patient educators, providers, and consumers of medical
services
I believe that patients and their families will increasingly arrive at our offices better
prepared to be
partners in the management of their health and well being
I tend to be an eternal optimist. "Don't tell me what you can't do, tell me what you
can do!"
I try to follow the advice of true heros.
Goal for this session
List possible technology enhancements to the practice of medicine
Explore a few of the possible uses of technology available through the Internet
Review some of the innovative or most popular sites found to be helpful for pediatricians
Lead Questions
Frequency of your current e-mail use?
None
Less than once a week
Weekly
2 to 3 times a week
Daily
Several times a day
I am in a twelve step e-mail recovery program
As you arrive at your office after morning hospital rounds, a staff member tells you that
the parent of
your 3 o'clock patient called to let you know that her child has Lodi-Abernathy syndrome.
What would you do to prepare for that visit?
Internet 101
We have entered the digital age. Are you thinking digital yet?
Banks, airline reservations, gas stations, and even occasional lab results
Who funds the Internet? How reliable is the information? Sources of revenue include:
taxes, dues, advertising
Client centered information is the appeal of the Internet
Netizens
e-mail etiquette
User Friendliness
Streaming Video
Translation to other languages
Handicap accessible web pages
Readability (greatest challenge is
writing for the reading ability of the intended audience)
Active Internet Resources (you guide the resource acquisition)
Digital References Online and CD-ROM based materials
Textbooks
Journals
Practice
Guidelines
Patient Education
Materials
See some of the awards KidsHealth.org has won
Search Engines
(substitute Programs or Utilities for the word Engines)
Finding Specific People
General Internet users
Medically focused search programs
Decision Support Systems
MD's ask the expert services, topic or specialty based
Patient/Provider partnership systems e.g., HealthWise
Knowledgebase TM
Passive Electronic Resource Acquisition
e-newsletters
Maternal and Child Health
AAP
Listserves
AAP Listserve
AAP Key Contact e-mail system
Health Policy HEALTHPOL@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Health Promotion (College Health) hlthprom@relay.doit.wisc.edu
TAGFAM (Gifted and Talented) TAGFAM@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Commercial clip services
San Jose Mercury News
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National Wellness Institute
Industry specific services
Physician Specific Services
MD Consult
Clip Service
What patients are reading
Research assistance
Practice Guidelines
Special Interest Groups
On-line
conferences
On-line CME courses
Topic specific chat rooms
The technology of the traditional classroom is 500 years old. The way most of us
have been schooled has been called:
Yak-in-a-Box education.
The knowledge purveyor is in the front expounding facts.
Let's explore how that could change. Joeli and I have created a web page to
demonstrate a client centered approach to providing the content for this session.
To see how helpful web based education can be, CLICK
HERE.
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