by e-Patient Dave | Jan 26, 2020 |
Many people are asking if they can add their stories or their signatures. Please do so in comments! We’ll copy signatures into the body of the post as time allows. We, the undersigned, are patients, family caregivers and advocates who are desperate to receive... 
by Sarah Krüg | Mar 12, 2019 |
“Vague but exciting…,” was the response Sir Tim Berners-Lee received when he submitted a proposal for an information management system (aka the world wide web) to his supervisor in March of 1989. Three decades later, we have hit a key milestone, and approximately half... by Peter Elias | Jul 7, 2016 |
Peter Elias MD (in photo at left) is a member-at-large on the board of our Society for Participatory Medicine. See his earlier posts here. Particularly relevant is his Proposal for a TRULY patient-centered medical record, The experience he recounts here, as a... by David Harlow | Jan 12, 2016 |
A long time ago (in internet years), the original HIPAA regulations were promulgated. (The final Privacy Rule was published in 2000.) They’ve been tweaked and updated over the years, most notably in the “mega-reg” promulgated a few years back in... by e-Patient Dave | Dec 18, 2015 |
This blog welcomes guest posts from SPM members on relevant topics. One of our Society’s newest members, Susan Cournoyer, is a tech industry analyst, and is familiar with the concept of systems that are well designed or weakly designed, e.g. with a “single... by Ileana Balcu | Sep 8, 2015 |
To all in the Washington/Baltimore/northern Virginia area (and elsewhere if you care to travel!): The patient committee of the Society for Improved Diagnosis in Medicine would like to invite you to our second annual Patient Summit on Diagnosis. The summit is part of... by Ileana Balcu | Jun 3, 2015 |
Ordinarily we limit guest posts to current members of SPM, but this is an extraordinary case. Duncan Cross’s post illustrates so many aspects of how empowered, engaged, activated patients view their lives, and how important it is to have an effective... by David Harlow | Jun 23, 2014 |
Charlotte Yeh is the Chief Medical Officer of AARP Services, and has had a long career in government and as a practicing emergency physician. (Our paths first crossed years ago when we were both working on pre-hospital care reform in Massachusetts.) She wrote a piece... by David Harlow | May 1, 2014 |
The Heartbleed web security exploit was first publicized several weeks ago. In the time since then, numerous web-based services have let their users know (some more clearly than others) whether and how their data security was compromised by this OpenSSL flaw that has... by e-Patient Dave | Mar 26, 2014 |
It’s five years since the ARRA/HITECH legislation was passed that pretty much mandates that American medicine has to computerize. Policies created since then have been enormously effective at moving adoption forward. We still need vast improvements of the user...
Web introduction to a crowd-sourcing platform for COVID-19 “information therapy”March 19, 2020
COVID-19 information resources: Peter Elias MD and othersMarch 17, 2020
Long-awaited US rules on data access and information blocking are outMarch 9, 2020
Three minute patient video nails the suffering from information blockingMarch 9, 2020
“Help me see the dragon I’m slaying”: pathologists meeting directly with patientsFebruary 28, 2020
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