{"id":17225,"date":"2015-04-13T01:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T05:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=17225"},"modified":"2015-04-13T08:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T12:04:43","slug":"proposed-rule-change-will-reverse-data-sharing-requirements-regina-farzad-call-for-national-day-of-action-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2015\/04\/proposed-rule-change-will-reverse-data-sharing-requirements-regina-farzad-call-for-national-day-of-action-to-fight-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Proposed rule change will *reverse* data sharing requirements; Regina & Farzad call for “National Day of Action” to fight back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday evening I got a tweet from SPM member Sherry Reynolds about something that had just happened in Washington. Today it unfolded.\u00a0(Don’t miss her comment, too, about the history of this issue and her role in it.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Change can provoke upset. Technological change can be hard, especially in an industry that’s not known for its IT leadership<\/a>. And social change can be upsetting to the point of the establishment\u00a0fighting back … as people in the civil rights movement learned. (The recent movie “Selma” makes all this fresh in many people’s minds.)<\/p>\n

To some observers of health IT, it appears the establishment is indeed fighting back – actively, through its lobbyists – to reverse\u00a0the progress patient activists have made. And it looks like things are coming to a head, right now, at\u00a0the huge HIMSS health IT conference just starting in Chicago.<\/p>\n

First, watch this two minute hallway video of SPM member Regina Holliday Sunday night, responding to that Friday news item.<\/p>\n