by Danny van Leeuwen | Jan 12, 2021 |
Designing clinical trials for and with people with Traumatic Brain Injury. Lynne Becker looking forward over time, not backward. Building a business. Proem You know the old story of the researcher looking for their lost keys under the streetlight when they lost them...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 10, 2020 |
As regular readers know, our Society for Participatory Medicine has always been a strong advocate for the OpenNotes movement as a key enabler of patient power. As co-founder Dr. Danny Sands often says in his speeches, “How can patients participate if they...
by e-Patient Dave | May 12, 2020 |
This morning the New England Journal of Medicine released the latest publication about OpenNotes. The news: an innovative pre-visit form created for the “OurNotes” study has been released before the study is completed, for other providers to use to improve...
by Danny Sands, MD | Apr 9, 2020 |
Prologue from Dr. Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 9, 2020 |
The long-awaited rules on data access have been published this morning from two key parts of the US Department of Health & Human Services. I’ll expand this post with more links as we digest what’s been offered and will unfold in the coming week. The...
by John Grohol | Jan 28, 2020 |
Epic is a widely used Electronic Health Record (EHR) system by thousands of hospitals across the United States. There’s a very good chance that your physician uses Epic software in their everyday practice. Among many other tasks, Epic’s software helps...
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 e-Patient Dave | Nov 24, 2019 |
SPM member Brenda Denzler had Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), which was followed by years of intractable symptoms that her doctors couldn’t diagnose – all their tests kept saying she was “fine.” “But I live with this body,” she...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 1, 2019 |
This is a cross-post from my personal blog. The organizers of the FHIR #DevDays conference next month have announced the four finalists who will come to Amsterdam to present their ideas to a panel of judges. I’ll copy/paste here from the conference’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 11, 2019 |
What if you hired a financial manager to handle your money – a trusted professional, like that guy above – then discovered they didn’t know what they were doing, and your records were a mess? How would you feel? That’s pretty much what happened...
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