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Dennis Quaid on Electronic Medical Records (CBS Sunday Morning)

e-Patient Dave | September 15, 2009

Actor Dennis Quaid has become an advocate for electronic medical records. In 2007 his 12 day old twins received a massive accidental overdose (10,000 units of heparin instead of 10 units), a near-fatal error that could have been prevented by the kind of bar code technology that the VA has been using for decades. (Yes, folks, [...]

The power of listening and being heard

e-Patient Dave | May 25, 2009

This is a special occasion for me, a guest post by Dr. Louise Glaser. Louise is a pediatrician in the Kaiser Permanente system, where among other things she’s Chief of Leadership and Communication Development in the Sacramento area. I met her a year ago at the annual Conference for Global Transformation (CGT), and again this [...]