Electronic Health Record
e-pts resources, general, medical records, others' e-patient stories
Kenneth S. Spriggs: The Benefits Of Visualizing Your Medical Data
Guest blogger Ken Spriggs talks about how he made sense of his medical data by creating a graphic electronic health record, the DIYEHR. [Update 11/25: the data visualization that Ken created is so extraordinary that we're adding it here, four days after the original post. LOOK how he helped his physicians "get" his medical history! [...]
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Bye Bye Google Health
Like so many attempts before it — drkoop.com and RevolutionHealth.com to name just two — Google has found that implementing personal health records in a meaningful way is really, really hard. So hard, in fact, that it has given up and is shuttering its Google Health service, after just 3 years being open to the [...]
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In Iran and in the US Health Care System,
Citizens’ Access to Computable Data
Frees Everything!
Dedication: This post is dedicated to Regina Holliday and to the memory of her husband, Frederick Allen Holliday, who passed away on June 17. Regina’s story has energized many of us to create the Declaration of Health Data Rights we are asking you to endorse on a website or via twitter. Definition: Data in a [...]
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