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Strate L. L. Liu Y. L. Syngal S. Aldoori W. H. Giovannucci E. L. , “Nut, Corn, and Popcorn Consumption and the Incidence of Diverticular Disease,” Journal of the American Medical Association 300, no. 8 (2008): 907–914.

See Calfee B. E. , “Note, What You Don't Know Will Hurt You: Physicians' Duty to Warn Patients about Newly Discovered Dangers in Previously Initiated Treatments,” Cleveland State Law Review 31, no. 3 (1982): 649–677.

Compare Tresemer v. Barke, 150 Cal. Rptr. 384 (Cal. Ct. App. 1978) (holding physician had duty to contact patient when IUD recalled three years later) with Doyle v. Planned Parenthood, 639 P.2d 240 (Wash. Ct. App. 1980) (holding physician had no duty to warn patient of recalled IUD because episode of care had expired years earlier).

See Wynia M. K. Williams G. Lemieux J. , “Many Physicians Are Willing to Use Patients' Electronic Personal Health Records, But Doctors Differ by Location, Gender, and Practice,” Health Affairs 30, no. 2 (2011): 266–273.

See Jain A. Atreja A. Harris C. M. Lehmann M. Burns J. Young J. , “Responding to the Rofecoxib Withdrawal Crisis: A New Model for Notifying Patients at Risk and Their Health Care Providers,” Annals of Internal Medicine 142, no. 3 (2005): 182–186.

See, e.g., Griffin C. A. Axilbund J. E. Codori A. M. Deise G. May B. Pendergrass C. Tillery M. Trimbath J. D. Giardello F. M. , “Patient Preferences Regarding Recontact by Cancer Genetics Clinicians,” Familial Cancer 5, no. 3 (2007): 265–273.

See, e.g., Smith S. K. Trevena L. Simpson J. M. Barratt A. Nutbeam D. McCaffery K. J. , “A Decision Aid to Support Informed Choices about Bowel Cancer Screening among Adults with Low Education: Randomized Controlled Trial,” BMJ 341, no. 7779 (2010): c5370–c5383.

See generally Hunter A. G. W. Sharpe N. Mullen M. Meschino W. S. , “Ethical, Legal, and Practical Concerns about Recontacting Patients to Inform Them of New Information: The Case in Medical Genetics,” American Journal of Medical Genetics 103, no. 2 (2001): 265–276; Mangalmurti S. S. Murtaugh L. Mello M. M. , “Medical Malpractice Liability in the Age of Electronic Health Records,” New England Journal of Medicine 363, no. 21 (2010): 2060–2067.

See generally Peters P. G. , “The Quiet Demise of Deference to Custom: Malpractice Law at the Millennium,” Washington & Lee Law Review 57, no. 1 (2000): 163–205.

See Liebman C. B. Hyman C. S. , “A Mediation Skills Model to Manage Disclosure of Errors and Adverse Events to Patients,” Health Affairs 23, no. 4 (2004): 22–32.

See Department of Health and Human Services, “Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information; Interim Final Rule,” 74 Federal Register 72,740 (2009).

National Conference of State Legislatures, “State Security Breach Notification Laws,” updated October 12, 2010, available at <www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=13489> (last visited September 12, 2011).

See Lo B. Parham L. , “The Impact of Web 2.0 on the Doctor-Patient Relationship,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 38, no. 1 (2010): 17–26; Miller R. H. Slim I. , “Physicians' Use of Electronic Medical Records: Barriers and Solutions,” Health Affairs 23, no. 2 (2004): 116–126.

See Epstein R. M. Fiscella K. Lesser C. S. Strange K. C. , “Why the Nation Needs a Policy Push on Patient-Centered Health Care,” Health Affairs 29, no. 8 (2010): 1489–1495; Nut ting P. A. Crabtree B. F. Miller W. L. Strange K. C. Stewart E. Jaen C. , “Transforming Physician Practices to Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Les sons from the National Demonstration Project,” Health Affairs 30, no. 3 (2011): 439–445.

See Fisher E. S. Shortell S. M. , “Accountable Care Organizations: Accountable for What, to Whom, and How,” Journal of the American Medical Association 304, no. 15 (2010): 1715–1716; McClellan M. McKethan A. N. Lewis J. L. Roski J. Fisher E. S. , “A National Strategy to Put Accountable Care into Practice,” Health Affairs 29, no. 5 (2010): 982–990.

HIT also has many non-clinical or “secondary” uses, including for public health purposes, in which there may be a growing appreciation for the value of the capacity to issue continuous alerts. See, e.g., Garrett N. Y. Nichols M. N. Staes C. J. Akins C. Safran C. , “Characterization of Public Health Alerts and Their Suitability for Alerting in Electronic Health Record Systems,” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 17, no. 1 (2011): 1–7.

See Kriest A. H. Woolf S. H. , “A Vision for Patient-Centered Health Information Systems,” Journal of the American Medical Association 305, no. 3 (2011): 300–301.

See Hsiao C. J. Beatty P. C. Hing E. S. Woodwell D. A. Rechtsteiner E. A. Sis J. E. , “Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record Use by Office-based Physicians: United States, 2008 and Preliminary 2009,” available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/emr_ehr/emr_ehr.htm> (last visited September 12, 2011) (43.9% of office-based physicians had any type of HER system).

See California Healthcare Foundation, “Consumers and Health Information Technology: A National Survey,” April 2010, available at <http://www.chcf.org/publications/2010/04/consumers-and-health-information-technology-a-national-survey> (last visited September 12, 2011) (only 7% of individuals had a PHR, but the percentage has been increasing).