Each of us wears many different “hats” throughout the course of the day. We are an employee, a wife, a father, a club member, a consumer and…
Physicians, hospitals and other providers are being misled by industry pundits claiming that more health information technology (as in EMRs, PHRs, Smart Phone apps, and web portals)…
I did a dumb thing a couple of weeks ago. I fell off a ladder on to a cement floor and broke some ribs.I went to the…
I talk with lot of physicians about the need to improve the quality of communications between physicians and patients. Regular followers of my work will know that…
Not by a long shot if patients have anything to say about it.Turns out that while most of us (90%) would like be able to make a…
The following is s post by Carolyn Thomas, a fellow 2012 Stanford Medicine X e-patient scholar, which she wrote for her award-winning blog Heart Sisters.Imagine that your…
Patient engagement is getting a lot of attention these days, particularly in the health information technology press. Anticipation of Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria is certainly driving…
One of the biggest problems with health care today is that there is way too much information and way too little communication going on between providers and…
I wonder how many problems like non-compliance, usually attributed to “poor patient behavior,” actually stem from long-term physician-patient relationships in which both parties have just given up?You know…
The follow is a guest post by Aanand D. Naik, MD @empoweringpts.We hear lots of discussion nowadays about Patient-Centered Care. Most legislation for health care reform proposes…
