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policy issues, positive patterns, research issues

Agency seeks patients(!) for Patient Centered Outcomes project. Too few are stepping up! (You??)

e-Patient Dave | October 22, 2011

Corrections 8:45 pm ET Monday 10/24: This post’s title originally said HHS was seeking patients. Actually it’s PCORI, a new non-government agency, as described below. Both affect the future of healthcare, but PCORI isn’t part of HHS. The title also said “None are stepping up,” which disrespected those who had. “Too few” is better. As [...]

general, medical records, policy issues, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, reforming hc, trends & principles, Why PM

Dennis Quaid’s “Chasing Zero”

e-Patient Dave | April 25, 2010

Actor Dennis Quaid has produced an outstanding, informative, empowering and motivating CME* program, “Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.” It’s on the Discovery Channel. Part 1 is here. This is the best-produced material I’ve seen to change how so much of the healthcare industry has its head in the sand about the possibility [...]

medical records, policy issues, Why PM

Second wave of comments on Health IT safety issues

e-Patient Dave | March 16, 2010

Last month I posted the testimony I submitted to the Adoption/Certification Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee. (I urge interested parties to review the links to other resources in that post.) Today Paul Egerman, chair of that team, circulated a preliminary draft of recommendations from that meeting. Here is my response tonight, edited a [...]

hc's problem list, medical records, policy issues

What to do about “the cream of the crap”? ONC’s Adoption/Certification Workgroup meeting

e-Patient Dave | February 18, 2010

I’d like your help preparing thoughts and testimony for a policy meeting I’ve been invited to attend in Washington next week. For these meetings, one needs to submit prepared remarks in advance, for the committee to digest in advance. And from what I’ve learned so far about this, there’s a lot to chew on, and [...]

positive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles, Why PM

Health 2.010: New Year, New Era

e-Patient Dave | January 16, 2010

This is a guest post by Lucien Engelen (Dutch Twitter friend @Zorg20), who was featured in October’s The internet is changing healthcare – video from Reshape09. Here, he takes it to the next step, moving from health 2.0 to “health 2.010”. I love it! – Dave

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Video: If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care

e-Patient Dave | January 15, 2010

Back in September, Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal wrote a terrific (fact-based!) send-up of our archaic, arcane, not-customer-centric healthcare system, titled “If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care.” I wish I’d known about it then, but I only learned of it recently, because a couple called “The New Altons” have made a great home-brew [...]

policy issues

Tell the FDA the whole story, please

Susannah Fox | November 8, 2009

I scan menus for keywords (fig, parsnips, salmon…) and it turns out I scan Twitter the same way, looking for anyone who is talking about my favorite topics (data, consumers, information quality…) So when I saw Jonathan Richman‘s tweet the other night, I couldn’t resist it: Anyone ever seen data on the overall accuracy of [...]

positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles, Why PM

Keep an eye out for tomorrow morning’s post

e-Patient Dave | September 29, 2009

In our “Why Participatory Medicine” series, leading up to the October 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine, tomorrow’s guest post will be a special treat for me. It contains a breakthrough insight about participatory medicine, and it’s a perfect example of how social media is enabling a wildfire acceleration of the spread of [...]