by David Harlow | May 20, 2015
There are two sets of Meaningful Use draft regulations out for comment at present: (1) Proposed revisions to Meaningful Use Stage 2 (“MU2”), with comments due June 15 and (2) Proposed Meaningful Use Stage 3 (“MU3”) regulations, to be effective in 2017 at the earliest....
by David Harlow | Jan 14, 2013
The Health IT Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT released its proposed Stage 3 objectives for Meaningful Use. “Eligible Providers” that meet these objectives share in the federal electronic health record incentive...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 30, 2012
SPM member Brian Ahier @Ahier is one of the best known and most respected voices for patient engagement in the “health IT geek” world. He’s Health IT Evangelist for Information Systems at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles, Oregon, which is a...
by e-Patient Dave | May 5, 2012
Afternoon additions: You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments. As I just told a friend on Facebook: “How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 15, 2012
SPM member Brian Ahier posted this petition notice – and call for comments to the government – on the SPM member listserv. Written by Dave Chase of Avado, it deserves public attention. ONC: Strengthen the Patient Engagement requirements of Stage 2...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 27, 2012
At last week’s enormous HIMSS (health IT) conference, ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for health IT) announced the long-awaited rules for Stage 2 of meaningful use. (These are the rules that must be met, for health IT systems to qualify for Federal...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 24, 2011
EMR and HIPAA is a great blog about health IT technology – well written, thoughtful, with personality. But I disagreed today with a post about the huge HIMSS conference (Health Information Management Systems Society) that ends today in Orlando. John wrote that...
by David Harlow | Feb 23, 2011
The Health Research Institute at PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report today entitled Putting patients into “meaningful use.” It begins with the anecdote I’ve blogged about previously regarding a diagnosis by Facebook in lieu of a PHR, which some...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 19, 2010
At last Tuesday’s announcement of the Meaningful Use rules, many people asked for the slides. After going through clearances, they arrived today. Click for 44 page PDF (649k). Correction 12:19pm ET 7/19: the PDF has been replaced with a PowerPoint, which we...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 16, 2010
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....
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 14, 2010
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...
by Gilles Frydman | May 18, 2009
Comparative Effectiveness: a comparison of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients. Such studies may compare similar treatments, such as competing drugs, or they may analyze very...
by e-Patient Dave | May 13, 2009
Precursor posts: The “meaningful use” debate (my thoughts); the Markle Foundation’s work on the subject Thanks to Josh Seidman of the Information Therapy Blog for steering me to the “meaningful use” work that’s been done by the...
by e-Patient Dave | May 10, 2009
Last night I posted my own thoughts on the definition of “meaningful use,” a term that will have significant impact on our next-generation medical records systems. To me it’s vital that the term be defined to include full access for you and me...
by e-Patient Dave | May 10, 2009
I’ve struggled with what to say about this subject for two weeks, because I want to “get it right” but it’s vast. So I’m giving up any hope of being comprehensive, and I’m just going to say what little I know, and what I think, and...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 15, 2010
Update the next afternoon: be sure to read the comments, with important updates as the conversation continues. Bulletin – I just learned about this tonight: Last Friday the board of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) published a position paper...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 18, 2009
Cross-posted, with prolog, from the blog of Ted Eytan MD. Yesterday the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “WIHI” series hosted a terrific webcast on the Open Notes project that’s being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (I need...
by Eric Bersh | Feb 1, 2023
Flash back to my article for the Society for Participatory Medicine last year: Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022. I’m here to deliver some great news: we tied the knot! By the power vested in clinical research, the FDA now pronounces us...
by Michael Millenson | Jun 27, 2018
This is the second of two posts about this important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The first provided background, with link to a PDF of the comments SPM submitted, largely authored by Michael Millenson, who provides this essay for context....
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 27, 2018
This is the first of two posts about this important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The second is by Michael Millenson, who did the lion’s share of this work, as noted below. Our Society’s Advocacy and Policy chair Vera Rulon...
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