What would a checklist for patients look like?
This springs up from a Twitter discussion this morning. It’s Atul Gawande’s fault, for his book “Checklists.” 
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“Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained psychological distress is probably unfounded”
Cross-posted, with prolog, from the blog of Ted Eytan MD.
Yesterday the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “WIHI” series hosted a terrific webcast on the Open Notes project that’s being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (I need to dig up the link to the event’s archive, but I’m in a hurry.)
Speakers were Dr. Tom Delbanco of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (a pioneer of patient access), Dr. Mary Merkel of Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and Bob Desaulniers, a patient of Dr. Merkel’s who lives in my own town, Nashua NH. Gotta go meet them!
Inevitably we revisited the hoary concerns about the horrible things that will happen if we see our health data. Dr. Delbanco cited a paper from the 1970s that advocated giving patients their medical records. And this morning Ted Eytan dug it out.
In this era of evidence-based medicine, isn’t it time for policy makers to look at this evidence?
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Aliya Sternstein writes for NextGov, a site devoted to “technology and the business of government.” We spoke last week for her piece about the White House’s use of social media. There are some people who, when you speak with them, the conversation goes to new places. This was one of those times.
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