by David Harlow | Oct 21, 2011
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform law) added “patient engagement” and “patient-centeredness” to the United States Code’s lexicon. Â Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized the...
by David Harlow | May 3, 2011
We e-patients are an impatient lot, and therefore we may not be big fans of the Five-Year Plan approach to creating change. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a draft federal health IT strategic plan in late March, via blog post (the plan...
by David Harlow | Apr 1, 2011
As you may know, the proposed Accountable Care Organization regulations were released yesterday. I’ve posted links to the various documents and some early news reports on my blog: Accountable care organization proposed regulations released for public comment. I’ll...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 21, 2011
Readers interested in health IT issues will want to know about today’s webcast at 1:00 ET, and the policy issue described here by SPM’s policy chair David Harlow (Twitter @HealthBlawg), from the SPM members listserv: There’s a significant announcement out...
by David Harlow | Feb 16, 2011
There is a growing recognition within the medical-industrial complex that the patient is a key element of the enterprise, and that patient satisfaction, patient experience, patient engagement, patient activation, patient-centeredness are very important. Some research...
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