by e-Patient Dave | Apr 11, 2019
What if you hired a financial manager to handle your money – a trusted professional, like that guy above – then discovered they didn’t know what they were doing, and your records were a mess? How would you feel? That’s pretty much what happened...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 10, 2019
It’s a big anniversary, this spring – this week, even. Ten years ago the whole issue of personal health data exploded into the headlines. It was about something I wrote here, not having a clue it was any kind of a big thing, but it ended up on the front...
by Sarah Krüg | Mar 12, 2019
“Vague but exciting…,” was the response Sir Tim Berners-Lee received when he submitted a proposal for an information management system (aka the world wide web) to his supervisor in March of 1989. Three decades later, we have hit a key milestone, and approximately half...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Jul 22, 2018
Do you care about health data ownership and want to stay abreast of national initiatives to wrestle with and solve ownership issues? If so, this post is for you. What does it mean to own my health data? Is it like owning my car or my house? Is it like a copyright? Do...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 6, 2018
UPDATE FOR ATTENDEES: Try to arrive 10 minutes early — 10:50 am — to get oriented. On arrival a host will scan your badge and point you to the big round “Discovery desk” where we’ll gather. We’ll talk a bit for 10 minutes, then...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 21, 2017
As his TEDMED profile says, Dr. Isaac (Zak) Kohane, MD, PhD, co-directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He’s a long-time believer in the power of well managed information to help create well managed care. Many members of SPM got...
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