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Input please for ABIM Foundation Forum: Choosing Wisely in an Era of Limited Resources

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 28, 2012

What is the role of the patient? As we noted in April, TEDMED and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have designated “The Role of the Patient” as one of the twenty TEDMED Great Challenges for 2013, and the TEDMED site will host a big conversation about it...

“What’s in YOUR record?” Make data quality fun: play along in ONC’s video challenge!

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 24, 2012

Think everything in your medical record is spotless and flawless? Think again: almost everyone I know who’s checked their record has found flaws, omissions, orders that were never carried out. There’s a lot we can do, e-patients, engaged consumers, to...

Does this proposed law take “give us our data” far enough?

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 23, 2012

The ever-vigilant Ted Eytan MD writes: I recommend taking a look at this and seeing if the proposed changes are more patient friendly, or if they go far enough to allow patients to see their health data online. At issue is a bill in the California legislature to...

Clarity is Power: an effective decision aid graphic (Boston Globe)

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 23, 2012

Last summer I visited Health Literacy Missouri, and summed up the great work I saw there in Clarity is Power. Today’s Boston Globe has another example – the illustration at right, what’s known as a decision aid, to help patients engage in making...

Ted Eytan: Update on “Gimme My [image] Data” from Group Health

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 17, 2012

As Meaningful Use rolls out, and providers are required to share data with us, there are a lot of concerns about whether their lives will spin out of control as patients besiege them with ignorant questions. We’ve discussed this in our many posts about the...

NeHC and ONC organize an eHealth Engagement Summit

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 ...