I exchange thoughts with healthcare IT people on a daily basis over at Twitter. So many of them seem perplexed at why we patients look at putting our medical records on the internet with trepidation. Then along comes this video from Elizabeth Cohen at CNN. In a matter of minutes, she was able to pull […]
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I’ve written many times before about electronic medical records, personal health records and privacy. They can’t effectively be used in the same sentence unless you bring up oil and water, too. They just don’t mix. An incident right here in my office spawned this post. Twice in the past week, a stranger’s medical records have
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I was excited to hear that the new secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle, was reaching out to the American people for input on what a reformed healthcare system would look like. Imagine — asking the people who must participate. What a unique and exciting concept! That was… until I actually went to
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Shannon Brownlee, the author of Overtreated, manages to rearrange my perspective from time to time. She takes the facts I have learned, or the concepts I study, and makes me see them in an entirely different light. I may not always agree with her! But I never fail to learn plenty. This recent article penned
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I’m pleased to announce a new relationship — PatientAssistance.com and Every Patient’s Advocate…. The courtship didn’t last long before the commitment. PatientAssistance.com is a non-profit organization which helps those who are uninsured gain access to the pharmaceutical drugs they need. Check it out — a very necessary helping hand for those who just can’t afford
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We all think we know what healthcare reform means — we think it means something about universal healthcare, right? You might be surprised to learn that “universal healthcare” isn’t what it’s about at all. It’s about shifting who gets healthcare, figuring out how to pay for it, and knowing that any success we find will
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I’ve been running a poll on my About.com patient empowerment site, asking the question Tom Brokaw asked in the debate this week: Is healthcare a right? or a responsibility? Do we as individuals believe we should all have a right to healthcare coverage, similar to the way we have police protection, or fire protection, or
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The incredible anger of all Americans at those greedy S.O.B.s who have been running the banks and investment houses that are already robbing Americans of their hard earned money, will ramp up further at this revelation: As you may know, the number of uninsured Americans is typically quoted at 47 million. We learned that last
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