by David Harlow | Jan 12, 2016
A long time ago (in internet years), the original HIPAA regulations were promulgated. (The final Privacy Rule was published in 2000.) They’ve been tweaked and updated over the years, most notably in the “mega-reg” promulgated a few years back in...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 17, 2015
Big news: a multi-foundation $10 million grant will spread OpenNotes access to fifty million more patients! Nearly 20% of America will have full access to their providers’ visit notes, so they can review them from anywhere! Regular readers know we’ve...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 10, 2015
One pillar of participatory medicine, as SPM co-chair Dr. Danny Sands often says, is access to our medical records: “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see??” But a major impediment to free-flowing information is incompetence or...
by Ileana Balcu | Nov 10, 2015
The series of blog posts at the online community website Crohnology continues for patients with IBD. Duncan Cross has a post that is interesting for anyone with an autoimmune or other disabling chronic condition: Am I disabled? It discusses the Americans with...
by Sara Riggare | Nov 1, 2015
I live in a small country: Sweden has the population of Michigan on the land area of California, so you shouldn’t really have even heard of us. But I guess that ABBA, IKEA, H&M and the Nobel Prize sort of helps :). Living in a small country of course has...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 28, 2015
For whose benefit does the healthcare industry exist? For the investors, or the people whose needs are the reason for the industry? Facebook last night was celebrating a small but significant legal victory this week for the “gimme my DaM data” movement (“Data about...
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