by e-Patient Dave | Jun 24, 2013
On Saturday I spotted the weekly top ten post from Snopes.com, the fabulous rumor-checking site, with the ten rumors that gave them the most activity last week. I thought “Man, I sure wish there was a site that reliable for medical information on the...
by David Harlow | Jun 5, 2013
ONC is sponsoring the Blue Button Plus Challenge — putting up some prize money to incentivize teams of developers to come up with solutions to the problem of getting patient data to patients. The first phase of the challenge is crowdsourcing ideas from patients...
by David Harlow | May 8, 2013
The new darling of the online educational community is Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The example which figures most prominently in the popular imagination is the Khan Academy, though its founder says otherwise, noting that MOOCs are merely online...
by David Harlow | Apr 24, 2013
With the tireless help of Adrian Gropper, and the counsel of executive committee members Michael Millenson and Danny Sands who went above and beyond, and our President Sarah Krüg, the Society for Participatory Medicine’s Public Policy Committee completed a...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 22, 2013
Imagine a black box. You can feed all sorts of information and data into it all the live long day. But the amount of data you can get out of it is limited. It just stares back at you with its blank, neutral sides. It can tell you things like where it was manufactured,...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 5, 2013
This guest post by Michael L. Millenson originally appeared on The Health Care Blog. Michael is president of Health Quality Advisors LLC in Highland Park, IL; the Mervin Shalowitz, MD Visiting Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management; and a board member of the...
by Ileana Balcu | Mar 28, 2013
On Monday, March 25, 2013, ONC, in collaboration with Cornell University, launched a new web platform for obtaining public input to inform health IT strategic planning. Check out the new PlanningRoom site, and provide your thoughts. ONCs initial focus is on consumer...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 18, 2013
For the patient safety crowd – which is all of us, when we shop for medical services: Cheryl Clark of Health Leader just posted this on Facebook, from this weekend’s Boston meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ): “For the first...
by Ileana Balcu | Feb 15, 2013
The Health Affairs February 2013 issue is titled “New Era of Patient Engagement” and the content matches the title. Nick Dawson describes the day in his blog post Health Affairs is the new shirtless dancing guy Here’s a short extract from the blog...
by Nancy Finn | Feb 11, 2013
According to a recent Harris Poll, walk-in medical clinics located in pharmacies, shopping malls, office parks and workplaces are getting more and more popular with health care consumers. The poll reported that of the 3,000 adults surveyed online, 27% said they have...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 9, 2013
For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking friends to join them. All of a sudden we’d transformed a bare patch...
by David Harlow | Feb 1, 2013
After years of delay, the federales finally finalized the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Notification and Enforcement Rules. Introduction The Final Rule offers significant changes to patient rights and patient protections. (There is much more to the rule, but other...
by Susan Woods | Jan 21, 2013
This weekend is momentous not only for the 2nd inauguration of the President. History will say the Veterans Health Administration is innovative, truly patient centered and even a bit risky. Today, VA patients can view, print and download ALL their health record data...
by David Harlow | Jan 14, 2013
The Health IT Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT released its proposed Stage 3 objectives for Meaningful Use. Â “Eligible Providers” that meet these objectives share in the federal electronic health record incentive...
by David Harlow | Dec 17, 2012
A recent Press Ganey white paper highlights an association between HCAHPS performance — patient experience scores — and lower rates of readmission. (Performance Insights – The Relationship Between HCAHPS Performance and Readmission Penalties.) With...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2012
The PDF at right is a summary of sample data from this new dataset. The Leapfrog Group is a highly respected patient safety organization. They’ve earned a reputation for carefully and thoughtfully assessing providers’ actual performance in quality and...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Nov 19, 2012
Danny van Leeuwen, Opa MPH RN CPHQ is a patient (Multiple Sclerosis), a caregiver, a nurse, and a leader. A version of this piece originally appeared on his blog, Health Hats. What do we e-Patients need in our electronic health records? Help by sharing in the...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 7, 2012
Check this trailer for a new program, to be launched in January, produced by WNED, the PBS affiliate in Buffalo: One of the challenges of starting a movement like this, especially a Society with little budget, is that you have to bootstrap, like any modern business:...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 6, 2012
Oh lordy, do I love this U.S. Election Day tidbit. Translate all the ideas from men/women to doctor/patient, and you’ll have the response I sometimes get when I lecture about participatory medicine. Thanks to one of SPM’s newer members, Cristin Croghan...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Oct 25, 2012
Today’s guest blogger, author and SPM Secretary Nancy Finn, originally posted this essay on her personal blog. Care coordination requires that the right information reaches the right people within an optimal time frame, so that a patient’s full information...
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