e-Patient Dave, Author at SPM Blog

An e-Patient Goes to the Eye Doctor – and, ahem, expresses himself

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2012

This was originally posted on my own site. Social media response has said the examples of dialog help people envision how they can express things with their providers. There’s a new ending, at bottom. There’s nothing here that will be a surprise to any...

An e-Patient Perspective on Stage 2 of Meaningful Use (Adrian Gropper)

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 27, 2012

At last week’s enormous HIMSS (health IT) conference, ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for health IT) announced the long-awaited rules for Stage 2 of meaningful use. (These are the rules that must be met, for health IT systems to qualify for Federal...

The Debate Over Patient Access to Lab Results (THCB post from RWJ)

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 15, 2012

Over on The Health Care Blog, John Lumpkin MD posted a good essay about the proposed ONC rules to let patients automatically see their lab test results. The SGIM Forum (newsletter of the Society for General Internal Medicine) ran a debate about it, and...

An e-patient issues an RFP, saying what’s important to him

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 12, 2012

It’s funny how things turn out sometimes. Lately I’ve written a lot here about e-patients taking an active role at a new level in healthcare, not just engaging in their care, but actually defining what it should be. Well, wouldn’t you know it, life...

Alex Albin: Why patients aren’t managing their care (Healthcare

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 7, 2012

A note on the SPM member listserv from Alexandra Albin, frequent guest contributor here – ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Alexandra Albin Here is an article I came across with some relevance to S4PM. 4 Reasons why Patients...