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	<title>Ed Lovern</title>
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		<title>Why Concierge Medicine Ain&#8217;t No Social Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My cardiologist friend recently learned that his personal primary care doctor turned his practice into a concierge model by affiliating with MDVIP. My friend wasn&#8217;t crazy  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/11/why-concierge-medicine-aint-no-social-crisis/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/11/why-concierge-medicine-aint-no-social-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Unwelcome Advances? Why Doctors Will Survive When Patients Have Their E-mail Address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The doctors will e-mail you now. At least, we hope they will. For all the amazing potential held by personalized electronic health records (EHRs) the biggest  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/10/unwelcome-advances-why-doctors-will-survive-when-patients-have-their-e-mail-address/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/10/unwelcome-advances-why-doctors-will-survive-when-patients-have-their-e-mail-address/</link>
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		<title>An Epic Undertaking: Why a Personalized Health Record will Change the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within five years, you will use an on-line health record. With the online record, you will schedule appointments, trade messages with your doctor and get prescription  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/10/an-epic-undertaking-why-a-personalized-health-record-will-change-the-world/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/10/an-epic-undertaking-why-a-personalized-health-record-will-change-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Joint Understanding: How Patient Communication Improves Surgery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother recently had knee replacement surgery at Centra Health in Lynchburg, Virginia. Since my blog is intended to be a journey of understanding the individual’s  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/10/joint-understanding-how-patient-communication-improves-surgery/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/10/joint-understanding-how-patient-communication-improves-surgery/</link>
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		<title>Do on-line health assessments really work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe the American Heart Association knows that some of us can’t resist a chance to show that we are special. Its on-line heart health assessment tool,  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/09/do-on-line-health-assessments-really-work/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/09/do-on-line-health-assessments-really-work/</link>
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		<title>Not so fast: Why doctors still know best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My 17-year-old son wants to backpack across Europe with a couple of friends this summer. My wife and I have been blessed to watch Jack mature  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/09/not-so-fast-why-doctors-still-know-best/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/09/not-so-fast-why-doctors-still-know-best/</link>
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		<title>Just Say When: Why Don&#8217;t More People Have Living Wills?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only about 30 percent of us have prepared a healthcare “living will” to give loved ones and healthcare providers our intentions for medical care when we  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/09/why-dont-more-people-have-living-wills/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/09/why-dont-more-people-have-living-wills/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Compare: Will Consumers Really Use Data About Hospitals to Make Choices?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you can lead a consumer to comparison data but you can&#8217;t always make him drink, or think. An article in the New York Times recently  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/08/cant-compare-will-consumers-really-use-data-about-hospitals-to-make-choices/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/08/cant-compare-will-consumers-really-use-data-about-hospitals-to-make-choices/</link>
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		<title>Personal Fitness Magician</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going to the barber shop as a kid, I would look through a tattered book in the waiting area that was full of pictures of different  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/08/personal-fitness-magician/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/08/personal-fitness-magician/</link>
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		<title>Up and Down Behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am going to make a healthy behavior change. My inspiration came from watching a video on HealthWatchMD.com in which Dr. Randy Martin told me that  <a href="http://edlovern.com/2011/08/up-and-down-behavior/" class="continue_reading">
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		<link>http://edlovern.com/2011/08/up-and-down-behavior/</link>
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