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A few items before I head off to the day job:
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EVERYONE, LISTEN UP:\u00a0 I DID NOT JUST SAY HEALTHVAULT IS BETTER!\u00a0 I haven’t even tried it yet.\u00a0 There are many personal health record systems out there, and I have no intention of doing a comparative review of them all, much less declaring a winner. I am not freakin’ Consumers Union (though I am a member) with a staff of hundreds, I’m just one patient doing this as an EVER so stimulating hobby, doing what YOU should do, which is get your fingers into YOUR data.<\/p>\n
Speaking of which, my doctor very generously combed through all of my data in PatientSite, every shred of it, looking to see what could be traced to its origin and what could not.\u00a0 Sometime soon I’ll be writing about what he found.\u00a0 It was really interesting to me.<\/p>\n
I had to deal with a bunch of arcane abbreviations but that’s not difficult – it was easier than some instruction booklets I’ve seen.\u00a0 (You can do it too.)\u00a0 I learned a lot, and we found a fair amount of other insanity – like an armpit cyst condition (hidradenitis) that was supposedly diagnosed during an abdominal ultrasound.\u00a0 Magic!<\/p>\n
I hope to post about all that this weekend. And I hope you (yes YOU, the person in YOUR underwear, if you’re wearing any) will contact your doctor and ask to see the whole megillah so YOU can take responsibility.<\/p>\n
See, if we’re going to do this Participatory Medicine thing, in which patients play an active role in their care, we can’t just sit back and hope “the other guy” is doing their part perfectly. Be an e-patient: empowered, equipped, engaged<\/b> and enabled.<\/p>\n
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Thanks again to Roni and John, two MDs who listened, heard<\/i>, and responded. Let this be a model for the new world we’re creating: collaborative, participatory healthcare. And thanks especially to Danny Sands, one of Tom Ferguson’s original e-patient doctors, without whose assistance I wouldn’t have been able to write most of this story. If knowledge is power, Danny’s an empowering guy.<\/p>\n
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