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2016: Opportunities and Challenges in Health Care

by Nancy Finn | Jan 12, 2016

In 2016, mHealth technology will occupy center stage in transforming clinical care and clinical research. Smartphone-linked wearable sensors will turn science fiction into reality as these mobile diagnostic tools provide the in depth information that enables ...

50 million more patients to get OpenNotes! Huge win for empowered partnership!

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 17, 2015

Big news: a multi-foundation $10 million grant will spread OpenNotes access to fifty million more patients! Nearly 20% of America will have full access to their providers’ visit notes, so they can review them from anywhere! Regular readers know we’ve...

New paper: “The Road to Making Patient-Centered Care Real: Policy Vehicles and Potholes”

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 17, 2015

SPM Past President Michael Millenson reports that the Urban Institute has published a paper he co-authored with Bob Berenson: The Road to Making Patient-Centered Care Real: Policy Vehicles and Potholes. Michael writes: This is the most comprehensive look ever at the...

Wall Street Journal on patient access: “Health-Care Providers Want Patients to Read Medical Records, Spot Errors”

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 10, 2014

Regular readers know that this blog has long advocated for patient access to, and engagement with, the medical record. In the past 2-3 years we’ve especially advocated for OpenNotes, in which patients can see their primary’s actual visit notes. At my...

Aging & e-Patients: Challenges and Opportunities in Geriatrics

by e-Patient Dave | May 4, 2014

Guest post by SPM member Leslie Kernisan, whose words first appeared here in a September interview at Medicine X: “Leslie Kernisan (Twitter @GeriTechBlog), a geriatrician who’s deeply interested in and committed to enabling elders and caregivers through patient...