by e-Patient Dave | Sep 15, 2013
Monday Sept. 16 is the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit. That means we, the patients, are the focus – we and our data, of course! – along with the providers (doctors, nurses, practices, hospitals) who serve us. You can watch live, online, without prior...
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...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 4, 2013
Updated Sept. 6: I’d forgotten that as we posted in June, Cleveland Clinic announced open access too, adding a half million patients to the total. Big news is emerging from the OpenNotes® project: big institutions are making patient access to the medical record...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Nov 11, 2011
This guest post by Kari Ulrich, RN, originally appeared in a fibromuscular dysplasia e-patients’ blog. The November 2011 issue of Reader’s Digest reads in big, bold print, “50 Secrets Nurses Won’t Tell You.” Articles like this create fear...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 17, 2010
This springs up from a Twitter discussion this morning. It’s Atul Gawande’s fault, for his book “Checklists.” :-) Forward-thinking clinicians are doing it; participatory patients should to. Let’s get to work. Checklists in hospitals can...
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