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EHR Etiquette and the Importance of Eye Contact in Clinician-Patient Communication
Another guest post from Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, following her much-commented earlier post. Lisa is Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Health Communication Program at Tufts University School of Medicine. Lisa teaches Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for Health Communication. A social media user herself, Lisa (Twitter, LinkedIn) blogs on health and is Editor-in-Chief of eLearn [...]
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“Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained psychological distress is probably unfounded”
Cross-posted, with prolog, from the blog of Ted Eytan MD. Yesterday the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “WIHI” series hosted a terrific webcast on the Open Notes project that’s being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (I need to dig up the link to the event’s archive, but I’m in a hurry.) Speakers were Dr. [...]
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What part of “Give us our damn data” do you not understand?
Yesterday I attended “How Access to Information Can Empower Patients and their Caregivers,” conducted by the Consumer Partnership for eHealth. CPeH is an alliance of stakeholder groups sponsored by the National Partnership for Women and Families. It has no web site of its own – it’s just a Partnership for Consumer eHealth (duh), convening to [...]
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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 [...]
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Regina Holliday’s mural is in the BMJ
We’ve written here before about Regina Holliday (follow her blog), whose husband Fred died June 17. In today’s edition of the British Medical Journal, her mural is the picture of the week: Ted Eytan MD took the picture and posted it on Flickr. Today he sent this email to Reggie: ====== Dear Regina, You made [...]
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