by Ileana Balcu | Mar 28, 2013
On Monday, March 25, 2013, ONC, in collaboration with Cornell University, launched a new web platform for obtaining public input to inform health IT strategic planning. Check out the new PlanningRoom site, and provide your thoughts. ONCs initial focus is on consumer...
by Ileana Balcu | Mar 20, 2013
Please join us for a tweetchat this evening – Wednesday March 20 at 8 PM ET/ 5PM PT. We’ll talk about: What’s new with Gimme my DAM Data #gmdd ? – Wall Street Journal picked the story at SXSW conference...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 7, 2013
Adapted from a letter distributed this week to members of our Society for Participatory Medicine, by President Sarah Krug. The Society for Participatory Medicine is excited to announce our collaboration on a variety of initiatives with HIMSS, one of the nation’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 18, 2012
Most of our readers are familiar with the brief animated video introduced last summer by ONC, the health IT group in the US government. (If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it below, in long and short versions.) Now they’ve introduced a new poster (click...
by David Harlow | Nov 30, 2012
The latest news story to examine the issue of patient access to implantable cardiac defibrillator data (a variation on the theme of “gimme my damn data”) is an in-depth, Page One Wall Street Journal story featuring Society for Participatory Medicine...
by Ileana Balcu | Oct 22, 2012
Member Alicia Staley on the HIT Community (MA HI Community) blog with a great recount of the first EHR exchange in Massachusetts – it happened last week: https://www.thehitcommunity.org/2012/10/16596/
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 1, 2012
Regular readers know that we’ve long anticipated the result of the OpenNotes project. Our first post about it was in June 2010: “OpenNotes” project begins: what happens when patients can see the physician’s visit notes? It tied the issue all the way back to...
by Ileana Balcu | Aug 27, 2012
On Wed 8/29/20012 at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT please join us for a Tweetchat hosted by SPM member Janice McCallum @janicemccallum about Big Data in Healthcare. One good way to participate is to use the website http://tweetchat.com/room/s4pm Go to the site at the right time,...
by Ileana Balcu | Jul 11, 2012
Thanks to Keith Boone for blogging about this summit and raising the issue of why NeHC members were notified about this meeting with only four days notice! http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2012/07/pushing-patients-around-not.html ...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 25, 2012
Lygeia Ricciardi from ONC with a discussion about giving patients access to their data and a call for patients to volunteer in ONC’s worksgroups...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 5, 2012
Member Keith Boone about the meeting at the White House with ONC and Regina Holliday, e-Patient Dave and others: http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2012/06/secret-white-house-meetings-with.html Discussions were about giving data to patients, security, privacy,...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 25, 2012
I participated today in a webinar hosted by eHI. My slides arrived (ahem) too late to be broadcast, so I posted them online, with comments, on my site. In case you don’t click through to the whole thing, here’s a quick excerpt: Long ago in another career...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 9, 2012
This guest post by SPM member Scott Strange originally appeared on his blog, Strangely Diabetic. Scott will host this week’s #s4pm Tweetchat on Wednesday, April 11 at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific (username @Strangely_t1) on #diabetes. It seems that every day we read...
by Dan Hoch | Apr 5, 2012
In a recent commentary on the American Public Media program Marketplace Money, Francis Frei discussed the failure of self check-out at supermarkets. Her insightful commentary is clearly based on both personal experience as well as her professional knowledge of...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 1, 2012
This guest post from Katie Matlack (reposted from the free site Software Advice) launches a new section of e-Patients.net: “PM Tech.” This special branch of e-patient resources is gaining importance as smartphones and tablets become ever more mainstream....
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