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Roger W. Harms, M.D.
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Roger W. Harms, M.D.
Roger W. Harms, M.D.
"Nothing helps people stay healthy more than the power of real knowledge about health." — Dr. Roger Harms
As medical editor-in-chief, Dr. Roger Harms is excited about the potential for MayoClinic.com to help educate people about their health and provide them the tools and information to live healthier lives.
The Auburn, Neb., native has been with Mayo Clinic since 1981 and is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Harms is a consultant and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and his specialty areas include office gynecology, high-risk obstetrics and obstetrical ultrasound.
From 2002 to 2007, Dr. Harms was director for education for Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Dr. Harms was the 1988 Mayo Medical School Teacher of the Year and served as associate dean for student affairs and academic affairs before taking this leadership role. He is the co-author of the "Mayo Clinic Model of Education." In 2008, Dr. Harms was presented the Distinguished Educator Award, Mayo Clinic, Rochester.
Dr. Harms is vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and medical editor of the Pregnancy section on this Web site. In addition, Dr. Harms is editor-in-chief of the "Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy" book, a month-by-month guide to everything a woman needs to know about having a baby.
"My medical education experience has grown out of a love of teaching, and that is what this site is about," Dr. Harms says. "If any visitor to this site makes a more informed and thus more comfortable decision about his or her health because of the information we provide, we are successful."
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June 12, 2009
Editor's blog: Health manager opens new world for you
By Roger W. Harms, M.D.
The knowledge required to provide applicable, personal advice regarding health issues has always resided within a somewhat closed community of medical expertise. Medical records, though for many years recognized as fundamentally your property, have always been housed in hospitals and doctor's offices. Even though you might have owned them, access was in the hands of providers.
Today, you can choose to store these records under your control. Records that can come from multiple providers with multiple layers of expertise are now all yours to distribute or hold as you wish. If you want to see a new provider, you won't need to ask for your records to be sent, you can make them available.
Would you like to have a chance to participate in a clinical trial for a new drug or procedure? Perhaps you'd like to give permission for researchers at the cutting edge to search your records to see if you are a candidate for their study. Maybe, you'd just like someone with a great deal of medical experience to look at your records and make suggestions about managing your health problems or avoiding those to which you are predisposed.
With online health records, all of these are possible. With Mayo Clinic Health Manager, the last opportunity is a reality today.
It really changes everything. You control your records, personalized medical information can be provided, and you can play a much more informed role in your care.
We're just getting glimpse of what this future holds, but if we do it right, it will be bright.
Please share your thoughts.
4 comments posted
September 29, 2009 11:46 a.m.
Lily, please contact: https://support.healthvault.com/eform.aspx?pr
oductKey=healthmanager&ct=eformts&bra nd=healthmanager - MayoClinic.com staff
September 24, 2009 6:04 p.m.
Twice I tried to create an account on the Mayo Clinic Health Manager. Each time, I received an error message that accounts can be created only for people who are 14 years of age or older. In both cases, I selected my birth year, 1964. Can you tell me what happened?
- Lily
September 19, 2009 11:31 a.m.
I really appreciate this site of mayoclinic.com Wihtout it I would have followed the wrong path in the treatment of gastritis. My doctor did not research the caue first, but assumed it sending to get 10 days of antiobiotics which I reall don't need. My gastritis was caused by a a nurse telling me to take 600 mgs of Ibuprofen for muscle pains due to accident. Never indicated to me on How to and/or the Risks of taking them. At this point I would have much rather kept the pain. My personal doctor did not take the time to research the cause of my gastritis and just assumed. Im quitting him.
- Maria
June 25, 2009 5:06 p.m.
It is tasteless and upsetting to be constantly interrupted by a fashion advertisement that spreads over the text I wish to read. I am researching prostate cancer - there really isn't an appropriate tie-in to junior size jeans & frufru. Additionally, someone who is researching any type of cancer is really probably not in the shopping mood. Please rethink the placement of this ad. Also, please rethink allowing ads that cover the target text of the site. Thank you.
- D Tate
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