Article addresses the e-patient phenomenon
A team of scholars from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis and the University of Maryland School of Nursing published the first article in academic nursing literature about the electronic-savvy patient, or e-patient. The article is also the first published by a group of doctoral students at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.The article, "Exploration of the E-Patient Phenomenon in Nursing Informatics," was published online Jan. 6 in Nursing Outlook the official journal of the American Academy of Nursing and will appear in an upcoming print edition of the journal. The article describes how health-care providers can collaborate with e-patients individuals who use technology to become involved in their own health care to increase "collective wisdom" about health.