John M. Grohol, Psy.D., Author at SPM Blog

For Want of a Surge Protector…

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...

E-Patient Discovers Significant Flaws in System, Spin Doctors Get to Work

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...

Electronic Health Records Raise Doubt

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.

When is “Information Therapy” Simply Learning?

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...

You’re Not Crazy After All

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...