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Why Electronic Medical Records Still Leak

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | September 18, 2009

I hear it time and time again in the e-health industry: “If only we had everyone on an electronic medical record, all of our security and privacy issues would be solved!” Really? Perhaps I should introduce you to a little something psychologists like to call “human behavior.” Human behavior will always trump technology when it [...]

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e-Patient Training Topic: National Article Reports Relative Risk, Not Raw Data.

e-Patient Dave | August 14, 2009

Important update: it turns out the writer did get it right, and this was an editing error at the Boston Globe. See my comment August 17. —– As empowered, engaged patients we have a responsibility to evaluate the articles we read. A case in point is this week’s Associated Press article Any Spread Of Breast Cancer [...]

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I’m sick of hearing Washington talk about savings “over ten years”

e-Patient Dave | July 10, 2009

I am sick of hearing politicians and money-making parties talk about savings projections “over ten years.” It’s STUPID. We’re stupid if we listen. Nothing (and I mean nothing) happens as projected ten years ago, not even five. It’s fiction; it’s a bogus way to inflate modest figures. This is the same issue as e-patients understanding [...]