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The Wall Street Journal – The Experts: How High-Tech Patient Portals Will Revolutionize Health Care
As the health-care world finally shifts from analog to digital, increasing numbers of patients have access to a patient portal–a site that allows them to schedule appointments, email their physicians, refill medications, and check the results of laboratory studies. As part of a national movement known as OpenNotes, nearly five million Americans can also read…
Wall Street Journal: Health-Care Providers Want Patients to Read Medical Records, Spot Errors
Health-care providers are giving patients more access to their medical records so they can help spot and correct errors and omissions. Studies show errors can occur on as many as 95% of the medication lists found in patient medical records. Errors include outdated data and omissions that many patients could readily identify, including prescription drugs…
WSJ: Ten Ways Patients Get Treated Better
By Laura Landro, December 18, 2012 Health-care innovations aren’t limited to drugs and devices. Experts increasingly are adopting new ways to treat patients that studies show are better at healing the sick, preventing disease, improving patients’ quality of life and lowering costs. Here are 10 innovations that took root in 2012 and are changing the…
The Wall Street Journal: Access to Doctors’ Notes Aids Patients’ Treatment
Patients who have access to doctor’s notes in their medical records are more likely to understand their health issues, recall what the doctor told them and take their medications as prescribed, according to a study published Monday. The study, published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine, is the culmination of an experiment known as OpenNotes, an effort…
The Wall Street Journal: Giving Patients Access to Doctor Notes
When patients finish a checkup, doctors record notes on a range of topics. A new study looks at what happens when those notes become available for the patient to read electronically. Laura Landro has details. Watch the Wall Street Journal video here.
