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Rest in Peace: Personal Health Records (PHRs)

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | April 12, 2011

While doing some research the other day on personal health records (PHRs), I came across this article, describing Revolution Health’s announcement — without much media attention — about dropping its PHR at the beginning of 2010. (Disclosure: I worked for Revolution Health in 2005-2006, and now have a business relationship with the company that acquired [...]

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Why Participatory Medicine?

Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH | November 9, 2009

For most people, their impetus to be actively engaged in healthcare comes from an experience with serious illness—either their own or a loved one’s. My journey into participatory medicine began during my internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital, a public urban hospital, in the late 1980s. While there, I had a number of realizations [...]

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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 [...]