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The Decision Tree: How Better Health Can Scale
"The internet was created to connect people and groups. The first step is to share stories. The next step is to share quantitative observations." "Health care has been locked up in regulatory amber. HIPAA was passed in 1996, almost perfectly timed to cut off health...
“The stage is being set for patient-driven disruption”
The e-Caremanagement blog has released my post that we mentioned last week: “Gimme my damn data!” The stage is being set to enable patient-driven disruptive innovation. It's part 5 of their excellent series (really, excellent) "Is HITECH working?" As I said then, if...
Joe Kvedar’s “cHealth blog” (Connected Health)
We're long overdue in welcoming Joe Kvedar MD of Partners Healthcare to the blogosphere. From his About page: "The term “connected health” reflects the range of opportunities for technology-enabled care programs and the potential for new strategies in healthcare...
Dennis Quaid’s “Chasing Zero”
Actor Dennis Quaid has produced an outstanding, informative, empowering and motivating CME* program, "Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm." It's on the Discovery Channel. Part 1 is here. This is the best-produced material I've seen to change how so much...
Teaching HIPAA with a Seinfeld clip
On my personal website I posted a HIPAA clarification flyer that I made up: "It's your medical record. You have a right to it. It's the law." The PDF links to a Seinfeld clip from 1996 - the year HIPAA was passed.
Insights on how the HITECH stimulus plan is working
In my previous post I noted that Vince Kuraitis and David Kibbe are running an excellent series, “Is HITECH Working?”* After a full year of increasing tensions, claims, and counterclaims, reading these posts has given me hope that it's all panned out into something...
Save lives first, *then* compete: Simple Interop for Healthcare
This post is my own expression, not an official view of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Vince Kuraitis and David Kibbe are running an excellent series, "Is HITECH Working?"* In last week's entry they linked to this slide deck by Wes Rishel and David McCallie...
Health 2.0 Europe: A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway wrote that Paris is a moveable feast, not fixed in time or place. I think that describes great gatherings of any kind, including great conferences, which begin before the first speaker takes the stage and don't end simply because the participants have...
Testimony submitted to the Meaningful Use workgroup (and an urgent call for citizen participation)
There's an important call to action below. If you care about making healthcare more responsive to us, and less responsive to vendors, please read to the end. This is short. Thanks to all of you who submitted comments on this week's post, offering feedback. Here is the...
The HealthCare Pyramid – Views from the Apex and the Base
We've talked in the past about "d-patients" - doctors who become e-patients themselves. Our own founder Tom Ferguson MD was one. "D-patients" are a special case that proves, once and for all, that being an e-patient has nothing to do with rejecting the medical...
Tell HHS: What’s the role of patient generated data in Meaningful Use?
Next Tuesday Regina Holliday and I are among those testifying to the Health IT Policy Committee's workgroup on Meaningful Use. Please help me decide what to submit for my testimony. My session is Panel 2: Incorporating Patient-Generated Data in Meaningful Use of...
Health Data is Useful… if it Informs Conversations
Dr. Roni Zeiger, MD is currently Chief Health Strategist at Google where he has helped create and lead Google Health. He continues to see patients on occasional evenings and weekends at a local urgent care center. Roni earned his MD at Stanford and completed his...
