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HIT Work Group Presenter Wants Your Help
February 18, 2010 9:37 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

I first heard about Dave deBronkart, aka "e-patient Dave" about a year ago when I attended HealthCamp Philadelphia , and I've been following him ever since (literally-the man's all over Twitter). He's one of the most vocal proponents of getting patients Read More...

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Patients Get Records After Year-Long Wait
February 9, 2010 2:17 PM by Cheryl McEvoy

If my doctor closed up shop, I'd be miffed. If I couldn't get my records on file there, I'd probably say, the heck with ‘em. But as someone who's jumped around to a few docs over the past year, I know how helpful it is to have all your records in one Read More...

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Medical Records: Help or Hindrance in Haiti?
January 19, 2010 9:40 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

Hundreds of thousands are injured, communications are scant and trauma centers are makeshift, at best. So how are medical records maintained? They're not, according to reports surfacing from Haiti. Eyewitness accounts tell of overrun hospitals resorting Read More...

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H1N1: After the Vaccine
October 22, 2009 10:13 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

Everyone's sick of swine flu (pun not intended, I swear), so apologies in advance for striking up yet another conversation about it, but I couldn't help posting when I heard about post-vaccine monitoring . What? What's that you say? Monitoring? As in Read More...

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Retail Clinic Check-up
June 25, 2009 3:30 PM by Lynn Jusinski

I'm what you might call "doctor phobic." I haven't had a check up since 2001, and that was required to get into college. After high school, I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs from quiet nook upstate in a rural area lovingly referred to as the "Polish Read More...

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Another Form to Fill Out
March 4, 2009 2:59 PM by Lynn Jusinski

How do you, as HIM professionals, shop for doctors? Being in the health care field, HIM professionals have a unique view of how they should be treated as patients and the care they can expect to receive. Jacque Taylor, AHDI-F, one of our Top 10 in HIM Read More...

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