by Deb Linton | May 5, 2012
You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments. As I just told a friend on Facebook: “How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell their story, from home? This...
by Society for Participatory Medicine Volunteers | May 5, 2012
“Nothing About Me Without Me” is Key Principle, Group Says BOSTON — May 5, 2012 — The Society for Participatory Medicine, a group representing both clinicians and patients, urged key federal agencies to revise their proposed rules on electronic...
by David Harlow | Nov 14, 2011
The federal government issued proposed regulations that would make all lab results subject to the basic rule that all patient records should be provided to the patient upon request. See the post on e-patients.net explaining the proposed rule on access to lab results...
by Deb Linton | Sep 22, 2011
Last week, the federales published a draft rule that would remove the lab-result-specific ban on delivering results directly to the patient (this applies to freestanding labs only – hospital lab results, for example are already covered by HIPAA patient access...
by Deb Linton | Sep 22, 2011
In recent days I’ve noticed some discussion on the listserv about whether and to what extent Health IT should be of concern to e-patients. I’d like to update the group on one initiative in that domain. In March, The Federal Health IT Strategic Plan was released in...
by David Harlow | Apr 15, 2011
PwC is sponsoring a free webinar put on by the eHealth Initiative which should be of interest: Engaging Patients in Meaningful Use (with a focus on PHR use) April 19, 2011 3:00-4:30 pm ET More on the webinar and registration link below. The folks on the webinar were...