Comments on: Now Reading: A Few Articles in the New England Journal of Medicine about Patient Access to HIT http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/04/18/878 e-Health. Patient empowerment. Washington, DC. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:53:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ted Eytan http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/04/18/878/comment-page-1#comment-933 Ted Eytan Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:44:31 +0000 http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/04/18/878#comment-933 Wow, Kathy, that's an impressive statement, and even more so because it is from the doctor to the patient, and from the patient to here. That says a lot to me about how compelling these technologically enabled abilities are to everyone in our health care system. Thanks for posting this, Ted Wow, Kathy, that’s an impressive statement, and even more so because it is from the doctor to the patient, and from the patient to here. That says a lot to me about how compelling these technologically enabled abilities are to everyone in our health care system. Thanks for posting this,

Ted

]]> By: Kathleen Furtado http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/04/18/878/comment-page-1#comment-912 Kathleen Furtado Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:27:34 +0000 http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/04/18/878#comment-912 Thanks for pointing out these interesting NEJM articles. I just returned from a visit with my primary care physician. Her clinic, part of Group Health Cooperative, has been using EHRs and a patient portal for 10+ years. "Yes, there are still some problems" she says, "But not one provider would go back to how it was before EHRs" she thinks. We're making progress. Thanks for pointing out these interesting NEJM articles.
I just returned from a visit with my primary care physician. Her clinic, part of Group Health Cooperative, has been using EHRs and a patient portal for 10+ years. “Yes, there are still some problems” she says, “But not one provider would go back to how it was before EHRs” she thinks. We’re making progress.

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]]> By: Vince Kuraitis http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/04/18/878/comment-page-1#comment-894 Vince Kuraitis Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:08:48 +0000 http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/04/18/878#comment-894 As I read the Hartzman & Groopman article, I wondered if the punchline was going to be: "...and because of all these problems with EHRs, let's keep the status quo of a paper, fax, phone call world." Fortunately, that is NOT their conclusion, but they could have been much more explicit with this. I suspect many will take their justified criticisms of EHRs as a reason NOT to adopt and/or to resist. Hartzman and Groopman miss an opportunity to establish themselves as physician leaders by emphasizing the "ain't it awful" aspects of change. As I read the Hartzman & Groopman article, I wondered if the punchline was going to be: “…and because of all these problems with EHRs, let’s keep the status quo of a paper, fax, phone call world.”

Fortunately, that is NOT their conclusion, but they could have been much more explicit with this.

I suspect many will take their justified criticisms of EHRs as a reason NOT to adopt and/or to resist. Hartzman and Groopman miss an opportunity to establish themselves as physician leaders by emphasizing the “ain’t it awful” aspects of change.

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