From transparency to collaboration: patient access in Sweden, USA, UK and Netherlands

Today I co-presented at the BMJ’s Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2018 conference. Maria Hägglund, Associate Professor at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, spoke about Sweden’s experience

PKB collaborates with four universities to bring e-consultations to clinical curriculums

Three universities have followed the lead of Leicester Medical School to include a course on teaching the principles of online consultations using the Patients Know

Belgium conference: Electronic health record, which role for the patient?

Today I spoke at Belgium’s national conference, organised by the Federal Public Service. I was the second speaker in the first session, titled Giving direct access to

Feeding back to individuals the findings of research on their genes

Around the world research groups are sequencing the genome of tens of thousands of people, and a crucial question is what to do about feeding

Computers take histories better than doctors: why don’t they do it more?

Here’s a simulated doctor patient consultation that took place today at the Royal Society of Medicine. A 65 year old woman (cunningly disguised as a

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