by e-Patient Dave | Jun 13, 2017
What would you think if your fire department had expensive, snazzy fire trucks that failed to show up when needed? What would you think if a neighboring town had less fancy equipment but was incredibly dependable about using what it had? That’s pretty much the...
by Nancy Finn | Jun 2, 2017
Guest post by SPM member Vanessa Carter. See bio at end. In many countries globally, the e-Patient revolution has raised many significant questions about the role of empowered patients in an integrated health system, particularly with expanding access to Information...
by Nancy Finn | May 10, 2017
The practice of medicine is shifting from episodic patient care to care focused on addressing many broad-based, unique, sometimes esoteric health conditions. Fueling this transition is a new focus on patient reported outcomes and health data registries that aggregate...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 29, 2016
A patient’s ability to choose the provider they want depends largely on information – same as any other choice, right? So this blog has long praised The Leapfrog Group for its deep analysis and publication of hospital quality and safety data, through its...
by e-Patient Dave | May 24, 2016
As regular readers know, we’ve written many times about OpenNotes, the project funded by Robert Wood Johnson that blew the doors off of beliefs that bad things happen when patients see their charts. (We blogged about the original results in 2012.) Now a new...
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