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Curiosity Got These Cats Their Health Data – from GetMyHealthData

by Casey Quinlan | Mar 23, 2016

Our friends over at GetMyHealthData have put up a terrific post breaking down exactly how/why all people can access their health data. Get YOUR data – it’s yours! Here’s the whole GIF-rich party. Cats have nine lives to figure out how to get their...

Proposal for a TRULY patient-centered medical record

by Peter Elias | Jan 25, 2016

The other night I participated in a very useful Google+ hangout with SPM members Adrian Gropper and Michael Mascia, and Michael Chen [of NOSH, explained below]. The discussion focused on a subject I think is incredibly important: the patient-centered health record....

#NoMUwithoutME: Primary School Edition

by Casey Quinlan | Apr 18, 2015

Created using Bitstrips. Text engine: Up Goer Five, “Can you explain a hard idea using only the ten hundred most used words? It’s not very easy.” Bottom line: When you go to the doctor, any doctor, always ask for your...

NY Times editorial on forces who “knowingly interfere” with health info exchange

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 18, 2015

It’s often hard for our movement to get major media attention, but it looks like it’s happening: things are heating up on the “empire strikes back” front that we reported on twice this week. Friday’s New York Times, page A30, carried an...

PHI Data Breaches May be Increasing, But It’s Not Impacting Our Sharing

by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 15, 2015

According to a new study in JAMA, data breaches into people’s protected health information (PHI) records are increasing: “[The] study that found almost 30 million health records nationwide were involved in criminal theft, malicious hacking or other data...