by e-Patient Dave | Jul 7, 2010
Did you know that a major aspect of the Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform legislation) was significant funding to revamp primary care? I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t. There’s $10 billion (with a B) in funding for research in the first ten...
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 13, 2010
Todd Park is the “entrepreneur in residence” (aka Chief Technical Officer) for the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). He’s an awesome (and I mean it) speaker, articulate and inspiring. Watch his 9:39 talk at O’Reilly’s...
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 | Jun 8, 2010
I think conferences are deeply affected by the spirit of their host city. San Francisco has its hackers and dreamers, Boston has its entrepreneurs and ivy, Paris has its pomp and worldliness. At Health 2.0 DC yesterday, my city showed that it has passion and...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 6, 2010
A big deal happened in Washington Wednesday – something I barely knew was happening: The Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) was announced at the Institute of Medicine. It’s exciting to me, because at long last we’re getting the chance to let...
by e-Patient Dave | May 22, 2010
Meet Donna Cryer – another person who was an e-patient before she ever heard the word. (Weren’t we all?) As with Diane Engelman’s “mama lion” story this week, we connected with Donna through the internet. I heard her speak last month at...
by Susannah Fox | May 21, 2010
Facebook has sparked a new debate about privacy and I think it’s time to bring it to health care. What does it mean when millions of people flock to share/overshare information, even as Facebook’s default privacy settings have slowly become openness...
by e-Patient Dave | May 10, 2010
The new definition of participatory medicine at the Society’s website notes that patients “shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and … providers encourage and value them as full partners.” As with any...
by Susannah Fox | May 5, 2010
I am struck, once again, by the power of data and the power of one. Carlos Rizo, Chief Imagineer of the Health Strategy Innovation Cell, posted this very intriguing tweet on May 2: The power of open data: To find problems in complicated environments, and possibly even...
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 Susannah Fox | May 1, 2010
“The internet was created to connect people and groups. The first step is to share stories. The next step is to share quantitative observations.” “Health care has been locked up in regulatory amber. HIPAA was passed in 1996, almost perfectly timed to...
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....
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