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Important ONC/NeHC Webinar, noon ET – the Patient’s Role in EHR Data Quality (SPM speaking)

by e-Patient Dave | May 3, 2012

I should have announced this long ago but I’ve just been too busy for my own good. Go register now! FREE! Attendance is limited to 1,000. (It’ll be archived online of course.) Or click the graphic to register: Why this matters: Data quality is important,...

Globe article on EMRs: status and the safety issue

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 30, 2012

In today’s Boston Globe, the cover story for the daily “G” magazine is “Record-Keeping 2.0,” by Chelsea Conaboy (@cconaboy). Subtitled “Medical care is shifting to electronic data files – but how safe is it?”, it’s...

Technology Enables Collaborative Doctor-Patient Relationships

by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 24, 2012

SPM member and Bay Area writer Eve Harris looks at information technology’s role in promoting participatory medicine on KQED’s State of Health blog. Harris discusses tools familiar to most e-patients, but what’s really noteworthy here is the evidence...

Gangadhar Sulkunte: TEDMED 2012 Highlights

by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 24, 2012

For those who didn’t make it to TEDMED 2012, here’s a brief overview of sessions of interest to e-patients, from SPM member Gangadhar Sulkunte. This originally appeared on his blog. Also noteworthy was TEDMED’s acceptance of “The Role of the...

Patient Engagement shows up big in special WSJ section on Healthcare Innovations

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 16, 2012

Thanks to SPM co-founder Joe Graedon of PeoplesPharmacy.com for this note about today’s special section in the Wall Street Journal on healthcare innovation. (Some of the content requires a subscription, but you can register for 8 weeks free.) Joe’s note,...

TEDMED and RWJF accept “The Role of the Patient” as a Great Challenge

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 13, 2012

We posted Wednesday about the Great Challenges program at TEDMED, created by TEDMED and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We said, “We must vote.” You did. We’re in. To see all the challenges that were accepted, go to Challenges.TEDMED.com, and...