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Why I (finally) signed up for health data access

January 17, 2020 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Peas and pods on cutting board

Christine Bechtel, Lygeia Ricciardi, Dave deBronkart, Casey Quinlan, and Donna Cryer published an article in Health Affairs this week: “Why Aren’t More Patients Electronically Accessing Their Medical Records (Yet)?” Please click through and read it — it’s open access.  Being a health geek, I read footnotes and every link in this article is worth your time. Bechtel […]

Filed Under: health data, medical records, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Casey Quinlan, Christine Bechtel, Courtney Lyles, Donna Cryer, E-Patient Dave, food allergy, Health Affairs, Julia Adler-Milstein, Lygeia Ricciardi, Sunny Lin, Urmimala Sarkar

“As She Lay Dying” – a son calls on the health system to involve patients and families in improving safety

December 3, 2012 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Three lines of far away mountain ranges

Warning: this doesn’t end well. Not for anyone in the story. Unless it changes you, as it did me. Jonathan Welch, MD, teaches at Harvard Medical School and practices in the ER at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. But, as is often the case in life, the information that really matters is more personal: […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list Tagged With: Condition H, Health Affairs, medical errors

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