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What to do about “the cream of the crap”? ONC’s Adoption/Certification Workgroup meeting
I’d like your help preparing thoughts and testimony for a policy meeting I’ve been invited to attend in Washington next week. For these meetings, one needs to submit prepared remarks in advance, for the committee to digest in advance. And from what I’ve learned so far about this, there’s a lot to chew on, and [...]
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MITSS: Much-needed support after medical errors
Ten years ago this week, 11/18/99, Linda Kenney was scheduled for ankle replacement surgery. She woke up three days later in the ICU. Her chest had been cut open. She was in the hospital ten days. And nobody talked about what had happened. What had happened is that the nerve block administered to her ankle (a [...]
Read Morechapter reviews, general, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles, Why PM
Participatory Medicine around the world: the Seven Preliminary Conclusions reach India
A Google alert popped up today, saying that a participatory physician in India had cited this blog. Don’t we love it when social media let empowering information spread! It’s exactly what our founder “Doc Tom” predicted with his now-famous 1995 triangle slides: the internet gives us access to information and to each other, which puts [...]
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 [...]
Read Morepolicy issues, positive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles
Steal these slides
Click images to view full size originals. Last weekend I stumbled across the “attic” of Tom Ferguson MD, who was the “George Washington of patient empowerment,” as CNN put it this month, citing his work since 1975 to create a world of freedom and power for patients. (That’s you. Thank him.) Those familiar with this blog [...]
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