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Rainbow Button – 2013 Edition

by David Harlow | Oct 14, 2013

Meaningful Use Stage 2 includes the requirement that health care providers with EHRs seeking Meaningful Use incentive dollars demonstrate that 5% of patients actually view, download or transmit their data. The HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Rule, which is now fully in effect...

Expanding HIPAA Rights: Lab Test Results to Come Under the Big Tent

by David Harlow | Sep 23, 2013

[Note added by e-Patient Dave: this is such a big deal that I’m taking the rude step of adding highlights [bold] to Attorney Harlow’s post!] We’re inching closer to promulgation of final regulations that will likely make all lab test results more...

Monday: Watch the Consumer Health IT Summit live. Our time is here!

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 15, 2013

Monday Sept. 16 is the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit. That means we, the patients, are the focus – we and our data, of course! – along with the providers (doctors, nurses, practices, hospitals) who serve us. You can watch live, online, without prior...

Flip the Flip

by Ileana Balcu | Sep 13, 2013

Guest blogger Natasha Gajewski participated in the Flip the Clinic meeting at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Below are her observations about the meeting and a thought you might consider. Natasha is an e-Patient and the developer of Symple, a symptom journal for...

New #S4PM tweetchat series kicks off Saturday 9/14 at 3pm Eastern

by Ileana Balcu | Sep 11, 2013

SPM is launching a tweetchat series this Saturday, Sept. 14 at 3pm Eastern, 7pm GMT (use The World Clock [link: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html] to find your time zone). The chat will be led by Casey Quinlan, @MightyCasey; Ileana Balcu,...

Beth Israel Deaconess FAQ for their patients reading OpenNotes

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 6, 2013

Clarification 9/7: The FAQ posted below is of course authored by my hospital, not by me. Several people misunderstood so I edited this and the headline. On Wednesday I posted about the roll-out of OpenNotes to over a million patients and families. That post arose when...