Onc

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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 [...]

Insights on how the HITECH stimulus plan is working

e-Patient Dave | April 22, 2010

In my previous post I noted that Vince Kuraitis and David Kibbe are running an excellent series, “Is HITECH Working?”* After a full year of increasing tensions, claims, and counterclaims, reading these posts has given me hope that it’s all panned out into something mortals can understand. (I’d been afraid to look!) In a day [...]