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Massively Open Online Medicine: Bad Idea or Just Before Its Time?
The new darling of the online educational community is Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The example which figures most prominently in the popular imagination is the Khan Academy, though its founder says otherwise, noting that MOOCs are merely online transplantations of traditional courses, while Khan Academy offers something different. Others would take issue with his [...]
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SPM Response to ONC RFI on Advancing Interoperability of EHRs and HIE
With the tireless help of Adrian Gropper, and the counsel of executive committee members Michael Millenson and Danny Sands who went above and beyond, and our President Sarah Krüg, the Society for Participatory Medicine’s Public Policy Committee completed a last-minute blitz and submitted comments in response to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health [...]
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The Black Box of You: Why the Quantified Self is so Frustrating Today
Imagine a black box. You can feed all sorts of information and data into it all the live long day. But the amount of data you can get out of it is limited. It just stares back at you with its blank, neutral sides. It can tell you things like where it was manufactured, or [...]
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Who Are These Guys? Why the PCORI Picks Matter And a Lot More Than You Probably Realize
This guest post by Michael L. Millenson originally appeared on The Health Care Blog. Michael is president of Health Quality Advisors LLC in Highland Park, IL; the Mervin Shalowitz, MD Visiting Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management; and a board member of the Society for Participatory Medicine. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has just [...]
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Provide Your Input to Inform ONC’s Consumer eHealth Strategy
On Monday, March 25, 2013, ONC, in collaboration with Cornell University, launched a new web platform for obtaining public input to inform health IT strategic planning. Check out the new PlanningRoom site, and provide your thoughts. ONCs initial focus is on consumer eHealth. To encourage public input to inform the consumer eHealth strategy, ONC is partnering with [...]
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RECENT rule violations that caused serious harm: CMS releases searchable database
For the patient safety crowd – which is all of us, when we shop for medical services: Cheryl Clark of Health Leader just posted this on Facebook, from this weekend’s Boston meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ): “For the first time, providers, payers, and patients now have an enormous searchable database containing documents detailing about 8,000 [...]
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Health Affairs Patient Engagement Edition – with videos and commentary
The Health Affairs February 2013 issue is titled “New Era of Patient Engagement” and the content matches the title. Nick Dawson describes the day in his blog post Health Affairs is the new shirtless dancing guy Here’s a short extract from the blog post. It’s worth reading, it has other interesting tidbits. The briefing was [...]
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Why Walk–in Medical Clinics Provide a Good Alternative
According to a recent Harris Poll, walk-in medical clinics located in pharmacies, shopping malls, office parks and workplaces are getting more and more popular with health care consumers. The poll reported that of the 3,000 adults surveyed online, 27% said they have used walk-in retail or work based clinics in the past two years. That [...]
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What if health care…?
For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking friends to join them. All of a sudden we’d transformed a bare patch into something beautiful. I thought for sure [...]
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Final HIPAA Privacy & Security Rule – What’s in it for Patients?
After years of delay, the federales finally finalized the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Notification and Enforcement Rules. Introduction The Final Rule offers significant changes to patient rights and patient protections. (There is much more to the rule, but other aspects are not addressed in this post. Here you may find a link to the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, [...]
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