by e-Patient Dave | Apr 23, 2010
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.
by Susannah Fox | Sep 25, 2009
That’s a direct quote from Paul Tang, of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, at last week’s meeting of the Health IT Policy committee, of which he is vice chair. Dr. Tang was riffing on an e-Patient Dave quote, which I read during my testimony: I want...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 14, 2009
If you hate HIPAA, it’s your lucky day. Paul Ohm is handing you ammunition in his article, “Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization.” His argument: our current information privacy structure is a house built on sand....
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 26, 2023
I had an idea last week and just tried it. ChatGPT is awesome at summarizing things, but could it handle medical notes? They’re complicated. It worked! I took the visit notes from my last doctor appointment (the whole big, long, detailed thing) and asked...
by Danny Sands, MD | Apr 9, 2020
Prologue from Dr. Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these...
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