CareFlash uses Blogs to Connect Childhood Cancer Specialists with
Community
Collaborative Web 2.0 Effort with Children’s
Cancer Hospital at M. D. Anderson Launched to Deliver Peer-to-Peer
Support Involving Childhood Cancer
HOUSTON (Business Wire EON) November 14, 2007 --
CareFlash, a social media
company for people involved in healthcare circumstances, and the Children's
Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson
have collaborated to develop several childhood cancer-specific online
communities. Each will provide members with access to original content
and interaction with physicians from the Children’s
Cancer Hospital at M. D. Anderson, along with peer-to-peer input and
support.
The first of a series of childhood cancer-specific online communities
launched today on CareFlash is focused on leukemia in adolescents and
adults and can be found at http://www.careflash.com/discuss/topic/Childhood-Leukemia.
Other communities to be launched over the next few months involve
childhood brain tumors, neuroblastoma, non-neural solid tumors and
proton therapy for children. The blog posts are written by Children’s
Cancer Hospital faculty members and moderated by an M. D. Anderson
representative.
"We have children from all over the world who are treated and cared for
by the Children's Cancer Hospital at M. D. Anderson. Having a
user-friendly Web site where parents and caregivers can conveniently
update family and friends at home without taking attention away from
their child is a great resource,” says Eugenie
Kleinerman, M.D., professor and head of the Children’s
Cancer Hospital at M. D. Anderson. “The public
forums and blogs provide a way for caregivers and patients in similar
circumstances to connect with one another and learn about their disease."
“This cutting edge alliance empowers patients
and their families and friends to benefit from online discussions
conducted in the comfort of their homes, with the most credible
specialists in the sector,” says CareFlash CEO
Jay Drayer. “In addition to Web 2.0 styled
discussions in these online forums, CareFlash delivers 3-D healthcare
animations to people in the rich, focused circumstances that they are
dealing with at that minute of their lives. The
animations are produced by Blausen Medical Communications and
constitute the most comprehensive library of healthcare graphics and
animations anywhere in the world. The animations are produced with
world-class 3-D quality and accuracy, and range from a wide expanse of
disorders, treatments and anatomy, all of which are narrated in plain,
understandable language. CareFlash will be delivering animations
narrated in Spanish and Arabic by the end of 2007.”
A small selection of the communities and animations related to cancer
include:
About CareFlash:
CareFlash - http://www.careflash.com
- assists in addressing fear and anxiety surrounding healthcare
circumstances by delivering unprecedented, world-class, advocacy and
education. CareFlash provides a common place on the Internet, to and
from which people may submit, retrieve and share information and
well-wishes surrounding a loved one’s health
circumstances. In the context of each CareFlash community, the company
provides 3-D healthcare animations on hundreds of disorders, procedures
and anatomical functions, all produced with world-class quality and
accuracy, and narrated in plain English. The animations will be expanded
to include 10 different languages by mid-2008. All of these features are
intuitively organized in a private, invitation-only website, unique to
each given patient. CareFlash is completely free.
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