A Patient's View of OpenNotes
October 2, 2012 | Journal Article
The authors discuss the positive outcomes from a year-long experimental study, OpenNotes, where patients could access their doctor’s notes.
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Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Patient Portals to Engage Patients
October 2, 2012 | Journal Article
This editorial discusses OpenNotes, an experiment where patients were allowed to access their primary care providers’ electronic notes via patient portals.
Making Sense of Mobile Health Data
August 9, 2012 | Journal Article
Mobile phones, and smartphones in particular, have the potential to support chronic disease prevention and management in daily life. For example, mobile health (mHealth) applications can help people manage their diabetes, assist in smoking cessation ...
Evaluating the Impact of Patients' Online Access to Doctors' Visit Notes
April 13, 2012 | Journal Article
The authors conducted a one-year, multi-site trial of patient-accessible online office visit notes system OpenNotes, and found that many primary care physicians were willing to participate.
Debate
February 1, 2012 | Commentary
Will OpenNotes help patients become true partners in their case?
Social Network Concordance in Food Choice Among Spouses, Friends, and Siblings
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
People are highly influenced by what the people in their social network eat.
How Our Friends (and Our Friends' Friends) Influence Our Health
September 1, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
Medical Malpractice Liability in the Age of Electronic Health Records
November 18, 2010 | Journal Article
The malpractice liability implications of the increased use of electronic health records (EHRs) will vary over the course of EHR adoption into medical practice, ending in a shift in the legal standards of care.
Do Facebook and Other Social Networks Influence Health and Behavior?
August 9, 2011 | Program Result
A team at Harvard led by Nicholas Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H, built several health-related social network data sets and used them to analyze the role social networks play in health and health care. Some findings achieved national media coverage.
Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks
September 15, 2010 | Journal Article
To evaluate whether such a friend group could indeed provide early detection, the authors studied a flu outbreak at Harvard College in late 2009.