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Article: Broad Coalition Says Consumer Role Is Key to Improving Health and Health Care.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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The future of health care should encourage expanded use of information tools to help consumers better manage their health, 56 diverse organizations said as they embraced a framework for personal health information access and privacy (see also The Markle Foundation).
"Consumers need to be full participants in modern health information tools and services to help them prevent illness, communicate better with clinicians, understand costs and treatment options, make better health decisions, and take better care of loved ones," the group said in a joint statement.
"Health reform requires putting the power of information at the fingertips of 300 million ...