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The Iceberg Waiting for Your Health Care Data

by | May 1, 2014

The Heartbleed web security exploit was first publicized several weeks ago. In the time since then, numerous web-based services have let their users know (some more clearly than others) whether and how their data security was compromised by this OpenSSL flaw that has...

It’s time to C-ME (see me): Consumer Mediated Exchange

by | Apr 3, 2014

By Mark Branning and Brad Tritle Mark Branning is Principal at mdb Healthcare IT Solutions, Adjunct Professor at National University, a member of the HIMSS  Connected Patient Committee and co-chair of the Connected Patient Community.  Mr. Branning has spent 33 years...

SPM loves Flip The Clinic – we’re an “ally”

by | Mar 27, 2014

The Society for Participatory Medicine enthusiastically supports this new, transformational initiative from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Flip the Clinic. (Don’t you love the logo? Turning the clinic on its ear?) It’s utterly engaging and empowering...

What’s the PATIENT value in health IT?

by | Mar 11, 2014

Since HIMSS14, there’s been a robust discussion on the SPM listserv about the “business of IT” in healthcare. There were a number of our number present in Orlando for the HIMSS conference, with some of them appearing on the platform. The conversation...

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