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Tell HHS: What’s the role of patient generated data in Meaningful Use?

e-Patient Dave | April 14, 2010

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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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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VA data glitch mimics MIT’s

e-Patient Dave | March 4, 2010

Bob Brewin writes today in NextGov that the VA discovered a glitch in a system interface that could display the wrong patient’s information under peak load circumstances. The VA handled it in an exemplary fashion: they immediately issued a safety alert and shut down the connection; the bug (a memory leak) has reportedly been fixed [...]

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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 [...]