“For the first time, I feel safe enough to go on holiday” – How PKB patient-held health records can help patients away from home and overseas.
Category: Society
PKB goes live with home mass registration
In May, PKB’s first customer went live with mass registration through home letters. This is part of PKB’s letter-savings program: when patients switch receiving letters
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
Genetic advances threaten privacy of one hundred thousand genome project
Advances in genetics are mostly wonderful (and completely amazing) but each discovery chips away at privacy. In September a paper showed that sequencing a person’s
How to build a national emergency phone service
This year is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first national emergency phone service, the UK’s 999. In the week of the 30th of June
Just in time is better than just in case care
A more beautiful question: The power of inquiry to spark breakthrough ideas is a great new book about the importance and power of questions. It
