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ONC’s new Query Health initiative – what’s in it for e-Patients?

e-Patient Dave | September 10, 2011

This is a guest post by SPM member John Sharp, Manager of Research Informatics at the Cleveland Clinic. John gets it about how information empowers healthcare and e-patients. I first met him at Medicine 2.0 in Toronto, 2009, after which he wrote an article for our Journal of Participatory Medicine, which began: “If you have not [...]

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ICMCC: Perhaps the single most valuable e-patient info site

e-Patient Dave | November 16, 2009

In last weekend’s post about “patients want all their data” I said I wished I’d known about the article (published mid-May) during last summer’s health data debates in Washington. Incredible Dutch e-patient Lodewijk Bos tweaked me, saying he’d posted it the day it was released. That led me to ask him to offer email subscriptions. [...]

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Why Electronic Medical Records Still Leak

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | September 18, 2009

I hear it time and time again in the e-health industry: “If only we had everyone on an electronic medical record, all of our security and privacy issues would be solved!” Really? Perhaps I should introduce you to a little something psychologists like to call “human behavior.” Human behavior will always trump technology when it [...]

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Dennis Quaid on Electronic Medical Records (CBS Sunday Morning)

e-Patient Dave | September 15, 2009

Actor Dennis Quaid has become an advocate for electronic medical records. In 2007 his 12 day old twins received a massive accidental overdose (10,000 units of heparin instead of 10 units), a near-fatal error that could have been prevented by the kind of bar code technology that the VA has been using for decades. (Yes, folks, [...]

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“Meaningful Use”: a pivotal definition for new-wave medical records systems

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 let any discussion happen from there.