by e-Patient Dave | Feb 18, 2013
This is the big update to our preview post last November. There’s a stage in a movement where it starts to get serious media coverage, and ours is coming of age. We’ve documented the progress: 2009: Susannah Fox was on NPR’s Morning...
by David Harlow | Nov 30, 2012
The latest news story to examine the issue of patient access to implantable cardiac defibrillator data (a variation on the theme of “gimme my damn data”) is an in-depth, Page One Wall Street Journal story featuring Society for Participatory Medicine...
by Ileana Balcu | Nov 29, 2012
Our members Hugo Campos and Amanda Hubbard featured in this great piece in the Wall Street Journal Heart Gadgets Test Privacy-Law Limits http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203937004578078820874744076.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories Very extensive and well...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 6, 2012
I’ve often said that we won’t really be making a dent until our conversations show up in the popular culture – outside health and technology circles. Well, I just spotted a great example: yesterday Janet Gallin, host of the San Francisco talk show...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 19, 2012
Shortcut: to respond to this Federal request, go to this post on the government’s blog. Update 9 a.m. 6/19: Josh Seidman, author of this post, says there’s no specific deadline; these comments will feed into HITPC )the Health IT Policy Committee), which...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 12, 2012
I’ve received an interesting request: Women Executives in Healthcare, a Hartford professional organization, will hold a meeting this fall themed around “Who owns your data?” And they asked, what are patients’ top five issues? Of course I have...
by Kathleen O'Malley | May 7, 2012
E-Patient Hugo Campos, whose quest to obtain his medical data has been followed by the media (including this blog) over the past several months, appears in a new interview in SFGate.com. He discusses a common fear of e-patients — that he may be perceived by...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 24, 2012
Another potent guest post by SPM member Alexandra Albin, @MsAxolotl. If this doesn’t give you a sense of who is “the ultimate stakeholder” in health matters, nothing will. Remember, “patient” is not a third person word. Your time will...
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