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Health IT Policy: E-patients want access

by | Sep 17, 2009

What would you say to policymakers who are discussing the implementation of a national health information infrastructure? Here’s what I’d say: E-patients want access to tools and information.  Many will find what they need, many will not. You can help....

Regina Holliday’s mural is in the BMJ

by | Sep 12, 2009

We’ve written here before about Regina Holliday (follow her blog), whose husband Fred died June 17. In today’s edition of the British Medical Journal, her mural is the picture of the week: Ted Eytan MD took the picture and posted it on Flickr. Today he...

KQED examines realities of Canadian healthcare

by | Aug 10, 2009

Good piece on NPR this morning about what a KQED correspondent found when she went to Canada and talked to citizens and doctors about their experience of wait times. Click to go to their site and listen. One might ask, what does this have to do with patient...

What do YOU think they mean by “health reform”?

by | Jul 28, 2009

After hearing about 800 million mentions of “healthcare reform” in the past couple of months, this weekend I visited my normal (not-HC-geek) family in Maryland for Mom’s 80th birthday.  (Woohoo! Large clan descends, six siblings and most of the...

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