by Ileana Balcu | Jul 1, 2013
Guest blogger Peter Elias, MD describes his journey on opening up his office notes to patients. Peter is a family physician in active primary care practice since 1977, co-founder of a group practice now owned by a hospital-based multi specialty group, with a...
by Ileana Balcu | Aug 2, 2012
Another blog post from Eve Harris on KQED describing the use of medical assistant health coaches to help patients make and keep their health care goals. http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/07/26/primary-care-efforts-to-involve-patients-in-decision-making/ Go Eve!...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 7, 2011
“Patients are overwhelmingly interested in gaining rapid access to their notes … doctors have not experienced significant disruptions to their work.” Hear hear! That’s from a new commentary published Monday in Modern Healthcare about the...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2008
Click images to view full size originals. Last weekend I stumbled across the “attic” of Tom Ferguson MD, who was the “George Washington of patient empowerment,” as CNN put it this month, citing his work since 1975 to create a world of freedom...
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