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Recommended 2-minute video: “Patient Revolution”

e-Patient Dave | October 4, 2009

If you haven’t already, please watch this, which is the best concise introduction to e-patients and participatory medicine I’ve seen: Susannah Fox mentioned this video six weeks ago, in a quickie post in our “found on the net” sidebar. But that was just about the video itself. I have a couple of points to add: [...]

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Civil rights activist Dorothy Tillman vindicated
a year after arrest for demanding medical records

e-Patient Dave | July 15, 2009

Important addition 7/16/09  6:40 pm EDT: Be sure to read the HIPAA clarification by commenter “SLC” below, and any subsequent discussion. Dorothy Tillman was requesting her aunt’s records, not her own. This doesn’t change the need (IMO), but it does put a different light on the event. This is a tiny item, which we might [...]

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