Clinicians Archives - Page 2 of 6

Keeping Patients in the Dark: SIIPC14

by Casey Quinlan | Jul 2, 2014

Several SPM members were in attendance at the recent SIIPC14 conference at Dartmouth, where the ongoing work on healthcare system transformation has been the source of much great content on e-patients.net over the years. Casey Quinlan – yes, yours truly...

OpenNotes & Transparency: Ongoing conversation

by Casey Quinlan | May 1, 2014

OpenNotesOne of our MD members, Peter Elias, tipped us off on our listserv to a post on KevinMD.com from a clinician who was expressing concern about the wisdom of OpenNotes, and fully sharing information with patients in general. Peter posted a comment, which we...

A Powerful Union – Relationships within Health Team

by Danny van Leeuwen | Oct 12, 2013

The relationship between health team members, especially people and their clinicians and caregivers, frequently arises as a topic of this blog. Let me share with you one of the values of Advocates. I work for Advocates as VP of Quality. We express our values...

Beth Israel Deaconess FAQ for their patients reading OpenNotes

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 6, 2013

Clarification 9/7: The FAQ posted below is of course authored by my hospital, not by me. Several people misunderstood so I edited this and the headline. On Wednesday I posted about the roll-out of OpenNotes to over a million patients and families. That post arose when...

Crowd trumps credentials: Medpedia’s dead.

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 13, 2013

In medicine, to achieve the best you need the best information. So an essential question is, who gets to say what’s best? That question took a sharp turn this week with the news that Medpedia is dead. Medical librarian Laika Spoetnik has a strong post on the...