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Participate in SPM’s glossary project: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabet Soup

by e-Patient Dave | May 6, 2011

Guest post by medical transcriptionist Kathy Nicholls, member of the Society for Participatory Medicine. This idea grew out of a discussion on the SPM members listserv. To join, see instructions at bottom. The world of health care is filled with abbreviations....

Society for Participatory Medicine Comments on ONC Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2011-2015

by David Harlow | May 3, 2011

We e-patients are an impatient lot, and therefore we may not be big fans of the Five-Year Plan approach to creating change. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a draft federal health IT strategic plan in late March, via blog post (the plan...

“Not just a bucket of information — a platform with applications.”

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 23, 2011

Over on his eCare Management blog, Vince Kuraitis (Twitter) is running a little (so far) series on “Rebuttal to PHR Luddites.” His discussion reveals that the term “PHR” (personal health record) means different things to different people; to...

Heads-up on EMR usability discussion

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 14, 2011

On April 21 I’ve been invited to testify again on behalf of patients at a meeting organized by the Office of the National Coordinator for health IT. As we did here twice last year, let’s discuss what the meeting should here. Here’s the document they...

Rest in Peace: Personal Health Records (PHRs)

by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 12, 2011

While doing some research the other day on personal health records (PHRs), I came across this article, describing Revolution Health’s announcement — without much media attention — about dropping its PHR at the beginning of 2010. (Disclosure: I worked...