A Nurse Practitioner's View

I recently blogged about the prospect of patients getting access to their laboratory results before the ordering clinician signs off on it. This certainly is a patient-centric approach but is it a wise one? I am mostly in favor of this however, many details still need to be worked out. In our forthcoming electronic health records world, this may be the tip of the iceberg related to patient-centricity and access to their record. I'd love to hear your thoughts and concerns.

Hello, I just wanted to provide a brief update as to what I've been up to for the last few weeks. After completing my DNP this past May , I was actually feeling a bit melancholy thinking that my days of a "student" were officially over. Well, not so much! Since my passion is technology, I happened to be researching Health Information Technology (HIT) and found these University-based training programs set-up by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) under the HITECH Act . These programs train either health professionals on the IT side or IT professionals on the health side. Even better, there is grant that helps to pay for the majority of tuition fees! I've always had a passion for technology yet, have been all self-taught with no formal training. The program that I applied to and was accepted offers a clinician leader track. It's been about 3 weeks and the hybrid program is intense! (I thought I was done writing papers, etc!) Thus far, it really is a wo