Re: Would patients like to be able to email their doctors?

From: Happy Dog (happydog_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:27:26 -0500

"David Rind" <drind@caregroup.harvard.edu> wrote in
> What is typically more difficult is figuring out how to give access when
> it is needed for care. If, for instance, you allow the patient to decide
> who does and does not have access (for instance by making the patient the
> keeper of a private key), what do you do in an emergency when the patient
> is incapable of participating in the decision about whether to release
> records.
>
> As mentioned, there are lots of published articles about this. Search
> Medline for articles with Kohane IS and Szolovits P as authors for some
> citations.
>

Merci bien.

le m

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