by e-Patient Dave | Feb 26, 2010
We (the people on our banner graphic) are at the annual e-patients.net retreat – which, this year, is the board meeting of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Whether or not you’re a member yet (join here), we want to know: what do YOU want the...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 24, 2010
As I’ve noted recently, this Thursday I’m on a stakeholder panel at a meeting of the Adoption/Certification Workgroup, which is part of the Federal Health IT Policy Committee. As noted in my previous post, this is a busy day, and each of us gets only 5-7...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 21, 2010
One profound shift in healthcare enabled by the internet is the Web’s ability to be a common platform for huge numbers of low-volume diseases. This is the “long tail” effect that makes Amazon and eBay a success, selling vast numbers of items you...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 20, 2010
I wrote last Wednesday about some background material for a panel I’ll be attending Thursday, as part of the government’s process to encourage adoption of electronic medical records. In the current administration all such discussions are wide open to the...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 19, 2010
Denny Porter is executive-in-residence at the HIMSS Foundation, Institute for e-Health Policy. I met him in Washington last month at the eHealth Initiative’s annual conference, where I was on a panel. Great guy, and I love this proposal: a Federal Health Records...
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