Online Health Records Get Patients More Involved
Posted on 19 March 2009
The Wall Street Journal has a story on how large managed care groups, such as Kaiser Permanente and Group Health Cooperative, are turning more and more to electronic health record systems to encourage patients to become more involved in their own care.
The trend, known as information therapy, involves delivering reliable health information directly to patients to help them manage their conditions and make treatment choices. Health plans also are offering online self-management programs and virtual coaching sessions for a wide range of health issues.
“Information therapy can help bridge the transition from [doctors] doing things to and for people, to helping them become active participants in their own care,” says Paul Wallace, medical director of health and productivity management programs at Kaiser and a director of the nonprofit Center for Information Therapy, which promotes providing patients with information as part of the process of medical care.
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