by e-Patient Dave | Jun 14, 2010
It’s widely rumored that a health IT industry executive was unhappy about suggestions that systems have to be usable in the eyes of employees who use them while caring for us. (Us. The patients. Your mother.) According to the rumor, the exec said “Over my...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 13, 2010
Todd Park is the “entrepreneur in residence” (aka Chief Technical Officer) for the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). He’s an awesome (and I mean it) speaker, articulate and inspiring. Watch his 9:39 talk at O’Reilly’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 12, 2010
The opening anecdote of the e-patient white paper tells of a patient who impersonated a doctor in 1994, to get his hands on an article about an operation he was about to have. He got busted. Two years later episode 139 of Seinfeld had something similar – Kramer...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 6, 2010
A big deal happened in Washington Wednesday – something I barely knew was happening: The Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) was announced at the Institute of Medicine. It’s exciting to me, because at long last we’re getting the chance to let...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 2, 2010
Todd Park is determined to make health data hot. He is leading the U.S. Department of Health & Human Service’s effort to make more of their data sets publicly available, from nursing home quality ratings to the food environmental atlas (view the full list of...
by e-Patient Dave | May 22, 2010
Meet Donna Cryer – another person who was an e-patient before she ever heard the word. (Weren’t we all?) As with Diane Engelman’s “mama lion” story this week, we connected with Donna through the internet. I heard her speak last month at...
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