(Editor's note: This guest blog is written by Carole Hodsdon. As executive vice president and chief technology officer, Hodsdon is responsible for the overall formulation, implementation and management of technology strategy at MEDecision, a provider of collaborative healthcare management solutions.) I continue to be amazed at the speed at which ...

With patients across the country voicing a growing desire for greater engagement in and control over their medical care, a new study involving patients in Boston, Pennsylvania and Seattle will examine the impact of letting patients see the notes that doctors record during and after their visit. Funded through a $1.4 million grant from the ...

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 more involved in their care, and the folks in Washington have taken notice. He's become a de ...

I've been thinking about personal health records (PHRs) lately (probably because of my article on PHRs going live tomorrow), and it somehow brings me to ''Rent.'' I got on a big Broadway musical kick in junior high, and ''Rent'' started it all. I saw the show twice, listened to the soundtrack and even watched the movie, which--big surprise ...

For those of you unaccustomed to Twitterspeak, ''FTW'' stands for ''For the win,'' a throwback to those great sports moments when an athlete takes a game-winning shot. It's a way to express your love or appreciation-a more efficient way to say ''This rocks!'' within the confines of a 140-character tweet. My title is really more of a question ...

Today's rainy, sleety, snowy mix wasn't the welcoming weather organizers would have liked, but attendees at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference were bright-eyed and ready for action. The conference kicked off yesterday with a tech forum, symposia and an awards banquet, among other events, but today marked the ...

We are in the midst of a social networking explosion. Headhunters recruit through LinkedIn, Congressmen send tweets from the debate floor and thousands log on to Facebook every day. The possibilities are endless, and as an industry that's bent on the rapid exchange of information, health care should carve its niche in Web 2.0. But with so much ...