by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jun 4, 2009
It seems somewhere between highly unlikely and impossible for this to happen in this day and age, but Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis had to turn away patients when a power surge took down its electronic medical records system. Yes, that’s right — our...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 14, 2009
It is absolutely amazing to watch the unfolding saga the moment a real patient enters real data into Google Health from his hospital’s medical records. The way the marketing folks tell us, this is a seamless exercise that gets you up and running on personal...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 13, 2009
The Boston Globe takes note of the morass that is Google Health when connecting it to your medical records, as recounted earlier by our own e-Patient Dave here on e-patients.net.
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 6, 2009
I sometimes wonder whether we complicate things that are pretty simple, by assigning more labels and new terms to things that have perfectly good labels already. For instance, I once thought I knew what “information therapy” meant. It meant a doctor or...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 6, 2009
Had chemotherapy and weeks after the treatment has ended, still feeling not quite yourself? You’re not alone. The memory and cognitive problems after receiving chemotherapy is known as “chemobrain.” As Ellen Clegg notes in The Cloud Over...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Mar 25, 2009
So with all this talk about healthcare technologies and the new budget and Health 2.0, you’d think that electronic medical records (EMRs) were on the rise. Perhaps they are, but as the Associated Press reports, fewer than 2 percent of providers have completely...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Mar 10, 2009
Join Dr. John Grohol in a SXSW Core Conversation this Sunday in Austin, Texas. With the rise of social networking in health, the inevitable questions arise about patient’s data and privacy. But such networks also allow for aggregating data which can help people...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Mar 5, 2009
In a sign of the times of the struggling newspaper business, The Boston Globe has axed its health and science section. Strangely, the Globe’s medical blog makes no mention of the cut, despite the end of 25 years of specialty, focused reporting on the sciences...
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