Over the past few weeks, I’ve been recovering from a shoulder fracture. (For the record, I wasn’t injured engaging in some cool athletic activity like climbing...
E-Patient
Tell me if you’ve run into the following. You call your primary care doctor to set an appointment, wading through the inevitable voice-response prompts and...
As someone who will soon will need to buy insurance through an ACA exchange – but doesn’t know whether that will still be possible – I’ve been thinking about...
Recently I got a most interesting email from the ONC and A-list healthcare educator Columbia University. In the message, it offered me a free online course...
Over the past year, I’ve done a lot of kvetching about the ways in which I think my e-relationships with doctors and hospitals have fallen short. I don’t...
I don’t know about y’all, but I love, love, love interacting with Google’s AI on my smartphone. It’s beyond convenient – it seems to simply read my mind...
Today, it’s standard for patients to travel to a central hub of some kind, spend as much as a half hour in the lobby and fill out a few minutes of paperwork to...
Lately, the medical profession has seen an increasing incidence of a new condition tentatively identified as “hyperportalotus” — marked by symptoms of...
Given who I am – an analyst and editor who’s waist-deep in the health IT world – I am primed to stay on top of my health data, including physician notes, lab...
For those of you who end up seeking care in hospital emergency departments now and again, the following will probably be familiar. You’re spending the precious...