by e-Patient Dave | Aug 8, 2010
Next in our series on my experience with OpenNotes, a project sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio. This item has nothing to do with OpenNotes itself – it’s what I’m seeing now that I’ve started accessing my...
by Susannah Fox | Aug 2, 2010
17 authors with weapons in hand stare down upon the viewer. The three panel painting measures 60 inches by 144 inches. It is a very large painting, and yet it is crowded with those who have been hurt and those who have suffered. Every one of them is an author. Nearly...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 25, 2010
Next in our series, Mark Boguski, MD, PhD is both a personal and a corporate member, as co-founder with Dr. Alan Littleford of ResoundingHealth. If you’d like to submit your own reason, write to me. (This is not an “invitation only” series –...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 20, 2010
Gary Wolf of Wired has posted a whizbang write-up that came out of a whirlwind one-hour 12-way Skype chat about personal health data. Sound frenetic? It was. (I participated. It was, well, 12-way.) I can’t imagine how to model what happened, except to say that...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 19, 2010
At last Tuesday’s announcement of the Meaningful Use rules, many people asked for the slides. After going through clearances, they arrived today. Click for 44 page PDF (649k). Correction 12:19pm ET 7/19: the PDF has been replaced with a PowerPoint, which we...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 1, 2010
As we adopt new technology NOW is the time to think strategically: “As I make my next move, where do I end up? How am I positioned for the next step?” Patients have a lot at stake in adoption of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Chilmark Research has...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 30, 2010
Earlier this month I wrote that the OpenNotes project had kicked off. It’s important – if you haven’t read about it, please click that link. My primary physician and I are participating, but candidly I didn’t expect to get much out of it: as I...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 15, 2010
It’s bonanza time for people intrigued with the OpenNotes project, which we mentioned Saturday. While looking for something else tonight, I ran across this, about OpenNotes, from December: “Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 14, 2010
It’s widely rumored that a health IT industry executive was unhappy about suggestions that systems have to be usable in the eyes of employees who use them while caring for us. (Us. The patients. Your mother.) According to the rumor, the exec said “Over my...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 12, 2010
The opening anecdote of the e-patient white paper tells of a patient who impersonated a doctor in 1994, to get his hands on an article about an operation he was about to have. He got busted. Two years later episode 139 of Seinfeld had something similar – Kramer...
by Susannah Fox | May 4, 2010
Adam Bosworth of Keas delivered quite a lecture yesterday at the Alliance for Healthcare Foundation. He talks about how Americans don’t really like data (but they need it), why “frugal innovation” is the best path for start-ups, how e-Patient Dave...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 28, 2010
The e-Caremanagement blog has released my post that we mentioned last week: “Gimme my damn data!” The stage is being set to enable patient-driven disruptive innovation. It’s part 5 of their excellent series (really, excellent) “Is HITECH working?” As...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 25, 2010
Actor Dennis Quaid has produced an outstanding, informative, empowering and motivating CME* program, “Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.” It’s on the Discovery Channel. Part 1 is here. This is the best-produced material I’ve seen...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 22, 2010
In my previous post I noted that Vince Kuraitis and David Kibbe are running an excellent series, “Is HITECH Working?”* After a full year of increasing tensions, claims, and counterclaims, reading these posts has given me hope that it’s all panned out into...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 22, 2010
This post is my own expression, not an official view of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Vince Kuraitis and David Kibbe are running an excellent series, “Is HITECH Working?”* In last week’s entry they linked to this slide deck by Wes Rishel...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 16, 2010
There’s an important call to action below. If you care about making healthcare more responsive to us, and less responsive to vendors, please read to the end. This is short. Thanks to all of you who submitted comments on this week’s post, offering feedback....
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 14, 2010
Next Tuesday Regina Holliday and I are among those testifying to the Health IT Policy Committee’s workgroup on Meaningful Use. Please help me decide what to submit for my testimony. My session is Panel 2: Incorporating Patient-Generated Data in Meaningful Use...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 16, 2010
Last month I posted the testimony I submitted to the Adoption/Certification Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee. (I urge interested parties to review the links to other resources in that post.) Today Paul Egerman, chair of that team, circulated a preliminary...
by Danny Sands, MD | Mar 12, 2010
Yesterday I was at a monthly TelePresence meeting of the Person Centered Health initiative, a group that started in Canada that’s closely aligned with the Society for Participatory Medicine. At this meeting, some expressed concern that the memes of...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 4, 2010
Bob Brewin writes today in NextGov that the VA discovered a glitch in a system interface that could display the wrong patient’s information under peak load circumstances. The VA handled it in an exemplary fashion: they immediately issued a safety alert and shut...
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