by e-Patient Dave | Jan 24, 2011
Click the image to view the letter we submitted last week to ONC, commenting on the December 10 report of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) about health IT. The response was driven by SPM policy chair David Harlow and approved...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 14, 2011
Update 3 pm ET: Thanks to Gilles Frydman for pasting in, in a comment below, the BMA’s actual statement, which as he says isn’t nearly as paternalistic as I thought from reading the BMJ piece. Need to discuss how this happened. _______ According to...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 3, 2011
For those who believe in the power of facts, some wonderful news from CMIO, 12/15/10: “Six of the nation’s leading healthcare systems — Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare and Mayo Clinic...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 6, 2010
I’m at the annual IHI Forum in Orlando, in an all-day workshop (class photo at left) titled “Whose Care Is It, Anyway … and Can Health IT Help?” Laura Adams of the Rhode Island Quality Institute was just talking about the social obstacles to...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 15, 2010
Update the next afternoon: be sure to read the comments, with important updates as the conversation continues. Bulletin – I just learned about this tonight: Last Friday the board of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) published a position paper...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 13, 2010
John Moore of Chilmark Research has another great post, this time on the realities being discovered about PHR use among the urban poor – something most observers considered unlikely. It’s aptly titled Smashing Myths & Assumptions: PHR for Urban...
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