by Susannah Fox | Dec 1, 2011
Mark Senak’s post, “World AIDS Day: The Past Cannot Be the Future,” inspired me to write an epic comment about different perspectives on illness and care delivery, so I adapted and expanded it to share here: I recently read Susan Sontag’s two...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2011
The excellent ICMCC daily newsletter just alerted me to this item from Permanente Journal:Â Interview with Lawrence Weed, MD —Â The Father of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record Looks Ahead. I hope to absorb it in the next day or two, and I invite people who know...
by David Harlow | Nov 15, 2011
As you may recall, in September the federales issued proposed regulations that would make all lab results subject to the basic rule that all patient records should be provided to the patient upon request. See the post on e-patients.net explaining the proposed rule on...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 7, 2011
“Patients are overwhelmingly interested in gaining rapid access to their notes … doctors have not experienced significant disruptions to their work.” Hear hear! That’s from a new commentary published Monday in Modern Healthcare about the...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 22, 2011
Corrections 8:45 pm ET Monday 10/24: This post’s title originally said HHS was seeking patients. Actually it’s PCORI, a new non-government agency, as described below. Both affect the future of healthcare, but PCORI isn’t part of HHS. The title also...
by David Harlow | Oct 21, 2011
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform law) added “patient engagement” and “patient-centeredness” to the United States Code’s lexicon. Â Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized the...
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