Society for Participatory Medicine
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medical records, policy issues
Heads-up on EMR usability discussion
On April 21 I’ve been invited to testify again on behalf of patients at a meeting organized by the Office of the National Coordinator for health IT. As we did here twice last year, let’s discuss what the meeting should here. Here’s the document they sent. Comments, please! Certification/Adoption Workgroup April 21, 2011 9:00 a.m. [...]
Read Morepolicy issues, reforming hc, trends & principles, Why PM
The Invisible Stakeholder:
Why America Needs a Patient-in-Chief
The following is the proposal I submitted Tuesday, to speak at O’Reilly / TechWeb’s Government 2.0 Expo, May 25–27 in Washington. ______________________________ The Invisible Stakeholder: Why America Needs a Patient-in-Chief “These are exciting and very promising times for the widespread application of information technology to improve the quality of healthcare delivery, while also reducing costs, but there [...]
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“HIPAA is SO 1996″
That’s a direct quote from Paul Tang, of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, at last week’s meeting of the Health IT Policy committee, of which he is vice chair. Dr. Tang was riffing on an e-Patient Dave quote, which I read during my testimony: I want innovation at a rate that resembles the rate of [...]
Read Moremedical records, policy issues, pt/doc co-care, reforming hc, trends & principles
“Give us our data”:
my talk at the NeHC board meeting
Last Tuesday, June 2, I was on a consumer panel at a board meeting of the National eHealth Collaborative. This is a heady group to be addressing; as this press release says, nine of these people are on the advisory committees that are working directly with David Blumenthal, Obama’s National Coordinator for Health IT, to [...]
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