Transparency
e-pts resources, positive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles
Healthcare.gov goes live: terrific site on health coverage options
This week the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) introduced Healthcare.gov, a consumer information website mandated by the Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform bill). A video of the introduction meeting is here. The site is fabulous; HHS Chief Technical Officer rightly says that the best praise they’ve gotten is that it doesn’t [...]
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Participant-Entrepreneurs: Innovating Toward Better Health
Nikolai Kirienko, Crohnology.MD Project Director, is setting a new standard for transparency in research and innovation as he blogs about his work with Project HealthDesign: On days where I could have benefited from the feedback of [Observations of Daily Living] the most, I was the least likely to be recording them. Why? On the worst [...]
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Tell HHS: What’s the role of patient generated data in Meaningful Use?
Next Tuesday Regina Holliday and I are among those testifying to the Health IT Policy Committee’s workgroup on Meaningful Use. Please help me decide what to submit for my testimony. My session is Panel 2: Incorporating Patient-Generated Data in Meaningful Use of HIT. Questions: a. What is the role of patient-generated data in improving health [...]
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Superheroes and rock stars at the Institute of Medicine
Update: National Cancer Policy Forum published a book based on the workshop, A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care, which you can buy, read online for free, or download as a PDF. The discussion portion of this panel was captured in a short video. ___________________ The Institute of Medicine’s recent [...]
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Participatory Medicine at PdF09: Can we get a do-over?
The poli-tech tribe gathered in New York last week for the Personal Democracy Forum and, as Craig Newmark put it, welcomed “our new nerd overlords.” Esther Dyson, Jamie Heywood, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), and I were asked to take on a breakout panel entitled, “From Participatory Politics to Participatory Medicine: The Coming Revolution in Health [...]
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