By Michael Millenson | November 15, 2017
Baseball, like medicine, is deeply imbued with a sense of tradition, and no team more so than the New York Yankees, disdainful of innovations like placing players’ names on the backs of their jerseys and resistant to eroding strict standards related to haircuts and... By Michael Millenson | June 3, 2016
On social media and at meetings like Health Datapalooza, our favorite federal bureaucrats assure us of their commitment to open data and patient empowerment. But those are just soothing words; federal regulations are law. On April 30, I posted on e-patients.net an... By Michael Millenson | April 30, 2016
Quick summary for the impatient: Michael’s post urges public comment in the upcoming comment period, and ends with this: “If we in the patient community do not raise questions and objections to this critically important MACRA rule, you will definitely not... By Michael Millenson | June 16, 2014
The founders of SPM were saddened this weekend to learn of the death, in a private plane crash, of Richard Rockefeller, longtime friend of “Doc Tom” Ferguson. Rockefeller was credited in Ferguson’s white paper as “a White Paper Advisor.”... By Michael Millenson | December 11, 2012
The new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has been asking different stakeholders about the most important issues to address with the hundreds of millions of dollars the quasi-governmental group will shortly be doling out in grants. Not surprisingly,...
BMJ seeks new patient essays for “What your patient is thinking” seriesMay 14, 2018
SPM members Lorraine & Gene Sacco’s story nominated for EmmyMay 14, 2018
Paying for value. I’m overwhelmed. Please read this.May 6, 2018
Join the VA’s “Open API Pledge” session at Health DatapaloozaApril 27, 2018
Join SPM’s workshop May 16 at “What’s The Fix?” at Dell Medical School. Free registration!April 18, 2018
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