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12 hours ago ago from Patient Privacy Matters
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6 hours ago ago from My Blog, My Thoughts | A new and improved blog brought to you by Chukwuma Onyeije, MD
David Harlow has an excellent post over at HealthBlawg, which summarizes recent discussions regarding patient control over health data over at his blog : He also does an excellent job at posing two questions which require further consideration. Below are some of my initial thoughts to his queries. I would encourage my readers to take a look at HealthBlawg and join the conversation at David's Blog, er Blawg. The two questions ...
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The following narrative is based largely on a series of emails I received from my dear friend Prof. Frank Harrison, III. Since the time this piece was written, Frank has also undergone a successful coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and is slowly but surely recovering. My best efforts at getting this piece published as a commentary in a variety of different journals met with no success. Consequently, I thought I'd put it up on the ...
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16 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
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