AHRQ and the health of Americans: part 1
This article that came out this morning in the Public Health Newswire is just packed full of stuff to talk about with you!! I’m doing a happy dance right now!! I’m going to take it a question at a time...
View ArticleAHRQ and the health of Americans: Part 3
Here we are with post #3 on the article that I’ve been talking about this week. It is a good start into some conversations or topics I hope to continue with in the future on the blog. In part 3 I’m...
View ArticleMore on patient access to clinician notes
It was exciting to see another article on the patient access to clinician notes in their medical records that served as a good followup for the article that I shared with you on October 3rd about this...
View ArticleMappyHealth – is Twitter telling us the picture of our health today?
I happened upon MappyHealth doing research for my public health class and found that it was extremely interesting. It takes tweets and analyzes them to give us a picture of our health. For instance,...
View ArticleThe new “drugs”– smartphone apps or patient engagement? or both?
In a recent post I mentioned a quote from Sherry Reynolds: “If # OpenNotes was a new drug that increased patient engagement by 85%, every doctor in the country would be prescribing it.” Now I see an...
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