Testimony

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Testimony submitted to the Meaningful Use workgroup (and an urgent call for citizen participation)

e-Patient Dave | April 16, 2010

There’s an important call to action below. If you care about making healthcare more responsive to us, and less responsive to vendors, please read to the end. This is short. Thanks to all of you who submitted comments on this week’s post, offering feedback. Here is the PDF I submitted today, which is being distributed to [...]

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Second wave of comments on Health IT safety issues

e-Patient Dave | March 16, 2010

Last month I posted the testimony I submitted to the Adoption/Certification Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee. (I urge interested parties to review the links to other resources in that post.) Today Paul Egerman, chair of that team, circulated a preliminary draft of recommendations from that meeting. Here is my response tonight, edited a [...]

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What to do about “the cream of the crap”? ONC’s Adoption/Certification Workgroup meeting

e-Patient Dave | February 18, 2010

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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“HIPAA is SO 1996″

Susannah Fox | September 25, 2009

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 [...]