e-Patient Dave, Author at SPM Blog

@Ahier on the AHA’s “it’s too hard”: Planetree hospitals give access while still in-patient

by e-Patient Dave | May 6, 2012

[Reminder: The place to register an official comment to the government is this page on Regulations.gov.] SPM member Brian Ahier is Health IT Evangelist at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles, Oregon. Today he posted this on Google+; reposted here with...

Millenson on THCB: Will Regina Holliday Become Health Care’s Rosa Parks?

by e-Patient Dave | May 6, 2012

[Reminder: The place to register an official comment to the government is this page on Regulations.gov. Monday May 7 is the last day.] How slowly culture changes. In September 2009, at the founding of our Society for Participatory Medicine, the cover of Health...

Monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine

by e-Patient Dave | May 6, 2012

This is our monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow the Society on Twitter (@S4PM), Facebook, and LinkedIn. Here’s how to become a Society member, individual or corporate. Our publications: This blog...

SPM’s responses to the proposed rules for Meaningful Use Stage 2

by e-Patient Dave | May 5, 2012

Afternoon additions: 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...

International survey for chronic disease patients

by e-Patient Dave | May 4, 2012

Doctoral student Mohamed Chekli met SPM member Matthew Katz MD (radiologist), and asked for help with a survey: Would you please put me in touch with people in your network who are offering personal health records (or patient portals) to individuals dealing with...