Topic: Jan Walker
(Reuters Health) - Patients want easy access to any notes their doctor has recorded about them, and they want the right to let others view their medical information, according to a pair of U.S. studies.Advocates of open-access medical records say they ...
American Woman Meets Tongan King and Finds Love in New Novel. . Invited by Tonga's king to develop a spiny lobster farm in the sea, June Sandusky...
Understanding a doctor's orders is only part of becoming a health literate patient, the other part is patients knowing their bodies.. . “We...
Don't be offended if your doctor writes that you're SOB, or that an exam detected BS.The aim is to help, not insult: A project is beginning to test if patients fare better when given fast electronic access to more ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - After your next appointment, would you want to read everything your doctor wrote about you and your health?Researchers are betting that you would - or at least that if you tried it, you would like it. They're ...
Patients expect increased use of electronic personal health records to transform the way they interact with the health care system, and their opinions could help strengthen the design of new patient record technologies, according to a study published in the June issue ...
For decades, the Pentagon's investment in science and technology has produced widely hailed achievements like the Internet and the Global Positioning System. Mark Lewis, the Air Force's chief scientist, laughs about the persistence of the Aurora story. Lewis is particularly ...