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From Ted Eytan’s blog: “Now Reading: Patients actually want their entire medical record”
An important study just got my attention. Patients and clinicians in different cities were asked questions about concerns and preferences. Titled “Insights for Internists: ‘I Want the Computer to Know Who I Am’,” the study reports: (emphasis added) Patients do keep their own medical records They want access to everything in their record Privacy worries [...]
Read Morehc's problem list, medical records, policy issues
“HIPAA is SO 1996″
That’s a direct quote from Paul Tang, of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, at last week’s meeting of the Health IT Policy committee, of which he is vice chair. Dr. Tang was riffing on an e-Patient Dave quote, which I read during my testimony: I want innovation at a rate that resembles the rate of [...]
Read Moregeneral, policy issues, pt/doc co-care, reforming hc, trends & principles
When is “Information Therapy” Simply Learning?
I sometimes wonder whether we complicate things that are pretty simple, by assigning more labels and new terms to things that have perfectly good labels already. For instance, I once thought I knew what “information therapy” meant. It meant a doctor or other healthcare professional “prescribed” certain information for you to read, so you could [...]
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