by e-Patient Dave | Jul 23, 2012
The ever-vigilant Ted Eytan MD writes: I recommend taking a look at this and seeing if the proposed changes are more patient friendly, or if they go far enough to allow patients to see their health data online. At issue is a bill in the California legislature to...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jul 23, 2012
Dr. David Lee Scher is a former cardiac electrophysiologist and is an independent consultant and owner/ director at DLS Healthcare Consulting, LLC. Twitter: @dlschermd, Dr. Scher blogs at http://davidleescher.com. These five points are important because they address...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jul 23, 2012
Nancy B. Finn is a writer and thought leader on the impact of digital communication on organizational behavior, health care, and patient care. I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time, exactly five years to the day after my first occurrence. I...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 23, 2012
Last summer I visited Health Literacy Missouri, and summed up the great work I saw there in Clarity is Power. Today’s Boston Globe has another example – the illustration at right, what’s known as a decision aid, to help patients engage in making...
by Susannah Fox | Jul 19, 2012
A few weeks ago, with a combination of alarm and excitement, I realized that I would be presenting my research about rare-disease communities to a roomful, not just a row full, of actual rare-disease patients and caregivers. This was no academic exercise. It was as if...
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