Are Your Patients Monitoring You?

Health IT Outcomes - Quotes Glyn Elwyn, professor of community and family medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on the recent trend of patients recording interactions with their physicians during visits to the doctors office. According to iHealthBeat, patients are beginning to record their visits to the doctor to better retain information about their conditions and relay information to caregivers. Unfortunately, recordings of visits are making many doctors uncomfortable and have them worried about the liabilities associated with being documented. Read more...