Si les appareils mobiles devraient représenter bientôt la moitié de l’activité web, est-ce pour autant que les sites web sont optimisés pour les smartphones et les tablettes ?
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Si les appareils mobiles devraient représenter bientôt la moitié de l’activité web, est-ce pour autant que les sites web sont optimisés pour les smartphones et les tablettes ?
Source: www.arobasenet.com
Source: chiefexecutive.net
Searching online for a travel destination or a recipe is simple enough. But what if you wanted to diagnose a medical condition? 35 percent of US adults say they’ve used search tools to find a diagnosis.
Perhaps not surprising to physicians, of these “online diagnosers” less than half (41 percent) got their diagnosis right.
Rare Diseases and Online Community
For rare disease patients, finding others with the same unusual set of symptoms can be a lifeline. With a confirmed diagnosis, patients can connect digitally in a way that is often impossible in real life.
Rare disease is defined in the US as having less than 200,000 patients; in the EU it is one in every 2,000 people. Inherently, patients are sparse for the7,000+ known rare diseases. Only about 50 percent have advocacy groups or organizations fighting on their behalf.
Rare Disease Patients Are Power Internet Users
The Pew Research Internet Project found rare disease patients use the internet to connect with others in far greater numbers than other patients. Overall, only five percent of patients say they have interacted online with a fellow patient, but 50 percent of rare disease patients say they have connected with others sharing their condition.
The mother of a patient in the study noted,
“When a disease is so rare, and there are no folks in your town, and few in your state who are going through what you are going through, you need a support group that encompasses people from all over the world. Getting to know people through the disorder has been an amazing experience and has created incredibly wonderful friendships and ties.”
Where Does the Online Search Begin?
Seventy-seven percent of online health-seekers start with major search engines such as Google or Bing. No matter how their searches begin, physicians wish their clicks would lead them away from social media and toward more technical information sites.
In a recent survey, we asked Sermo member physicians, “Where should rare disease patients search online for information?”
Registries Can Be Life Saving
Rare disease patients like to connect for emotional support and information as their issues progress. For researchers and physicians, online registries are a boon. Clinical trials can find participants quickly and speed the path of a drug to market, potentially saving lives and easing symptoms.
In an NPR article, Sue Byrnes, a patient and founder of a rare lung disease registry said,
“the internet actually facilitates research. Researchers can search that database or ask the foundation to survey its members online for information about symptoms and treatment. Scientists don’t have the time to do these sorts of things, so we do it for them.”
Overall, rare disease patients use online resources to connect, for support in their diagnoses, to compare treatment notes and to participate in research studies. Physicians and researchers use online connections to find patients and collaborate on treatment plans.
As a physician, have you directed a rare disease patient to an online resource? Have you found patients have better outcomes if they have an emotional connection? Has a rare disease patient ever questioned your treatment plan based on information they received online?
Source: blog.sermo.com
Voici une infographie qui nous indique le nombre d’utilisateurs actifs des principaux réseaux sociaux en France et dans le monde.
Source: www.mon-emarketing.com
Protests over secret study involving 689,000 users in which friends’ postings were moved to influence moods (Voilà un exemple de pourquoi c’est un problème que nos réseaux sociaux soient contrôlés par des compagnies…
Source: www.theguardian.com
The Cloud Is Coming With Unprecedented Market Growth In 2014
Gulf Business News
“We see cloud as more than just a way to manage cost or quick and easy way to deliver services.
Source: gulfbusiness.com
Are Digital Business And Cloud Computing Joined At The Hip?
Forbes
Do organizations that have mastered cloud computing have an easier time advancing into the digital realm? Is digital enterprise even possible without cloud computing?
Source: www.forbes.com
Ben Golub isn’t surprised that his startup Docker’s take on container technology has caused this much of a buzz throughout the tech industry; it just happened a whole lot sooner than he thought.
“Before the printing press nobody wrote because it was a pain to produce content,” said Golub, CEO of the four-year-old company. “I think Docker in a smaller way is enabling developers to be able to put all their energy into creating amazing applications, rather than worrying about the minutiae of how they are going to run and how they are going to scale and it is a beautiful thing.”
Docker’s rise from a middling Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company once known as DotCloud to its current status as a much-heralded container management system that is used by Google, Spotify, Red Hat and others is one that highlights how having the right kind of technology and a large open source community can jump start a company into the spotlight even in a crowded enterprise space. Containers, which are similar to virtual machines, allow developers to isolate their applications from other applications that operate on the same host server. What has people so excited is that containers don’t have their own operating systems; they instead share the same OS as the host server, thus saving a lot of overhead.
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Source: gigaom.com
l’Informaticien
Docker 1.0 : l’outil qui va booster l’adoption du cloud ?
Source: www.linformaticien.com
Cloud : 5 conseils pour mettre d’accord la DSI et les directions métiers
Journal du Net
Il s’agit de définir et promouvoir les pratiques garantissant un usage maîtrisé du Cloud, sans pour autant compromettre les objectifs recherchés.
Source: www.journaldunet.com