Sometimes the hardest part of a new situation, in any aspect of life but particularly our health, is saying out loud the scary thing. Someone dear to me received concerning test results and asked me to help craft a set of questions for their next appointment – the very first one since getting the results […]
Elizabeth Cohen
Health data rights on CNN
Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent, captured the zeitgeist of the health data rights movement in today’s must-read article, Patients demand: ‘Give us our damned data’. An e-patients all-star team is quoted in the story: Jen McCabe, Regina Holliday, e-Patient Dave, Alan Viars.
Senator Ted Kennedy was an e-patient–Susannah Fox
CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen makes a compelling case in her column today: How to get Kennedy-esque health care on your budget. Anyone with internet access can gather the information they need to make better health decisions, as e-Patient Dave and Karen Parles did, and refuse to take “no” for an answer, as Sen. Kennedy did.
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