by e-Patient Dave | Apr 12, 2009
Do you know what’s in your medical record? Does it contain mistakes or omissions? The extraordinary response to our April 1 post about data transfer from PatientSite to Google Health (86 comments so far) made us realize that the time has come for patients to...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 9, 2009
I’ve been thinking a lot about where to take the discussion that’s exploded on my post about moving my data from PatientSite into Google Health. I’m hardly an IT guru, but as I said, I do work with data at my day job. And before we proceed,...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 5, 2009
From my wife: I truly don’t understand why human medicine finds it is so difficult to put medical records on the computer. Veterinary medicine has had that ability at least for the last 10-15 years. An example is the Idexx Cornerstone Veterinary Practice...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 1, 2009
This is a complex post, so don’t jump to any conclusions. Two weeks ago (gad, was it that long?) I asked you to think about something for a few days: Imagine that for all your life, and your parents’ lives, your money had been managed by other people who had extensive...
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 e-Patient Dave | Mar 18, 2009
I want you to think about something for a few days. Imagine that for all your life, and your parents’ lives, your money had been managed by other people who had extensive training and licensing. Imagine that all your records were in their possession, and you...
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