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November 23, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 2 Comments

#LongCOVID patient researcher Hannah Wei kicks off FHIR DevDays

For two years I’ve blogged about DevDays, the twice-annual software developer conference for the FHIR software standard for health data. November 17-20 was this fall’s edition, and in the opening session, Hannah Wei gave a keynote unlike any other.

Fifteen minute video:

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Filed Under: Coronavirus, FHIR, Health data, Innovation, Patient-centered tech Tagged With: coronavirus, covid, health data, long haul, longcovid, patient centered care 2 Comments

November 1, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 6 Comments

Great NY Times visualization of how masks work against mists (aka aerosols)

After my previous post Winter’s coming. Time to talk about ventilation for coronavirus defense I’ve been amazed that hardly any businesses I’ve visited are using HEPA filters – or if they are, they’re not touting it. Why??

This is important information, with potentially huge benefits for businesses and customers alike. Why are we all focused on waiting for treatment, when all of us (anywhere on the political spectrum) want two things:

  • Be safe
  • Get back to “as normal as possible” as fast as possible.
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Filed Under: Coronavirus Tagged With: coronavirus, face masks, filters, hepa, masks 6 Comments

September 27, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 9 Comments

Winter’s coming. Time to talk about ventilation for coronavirus defense.

Update Nov 11: see also these related posts –

  • How universal masking minimizes COVID-19 risk (great graphic) May 28
  • Great NY Times visualization of how masks work against mists (aka aerosols) Nov 1
    • For a much deeper dive into the mysteries of aerosols (aka mists), with links to things like National Geographic’s risk calculator, see the Google Doc https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols maintained by José L. Jiménez (@jljcolorado) and other aerosol specialists.
  • The problem with “herd immunity” as a COVID-19 strategy May 4
  • … and the many informative comments on the original Facebook post, linked in this article, as well as comments on this post.
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Filed Under: Coronavirus Tagged With: air purifiers, coronavirus, covid-19, hepa 9 Comments

September 26, 2020 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

“My doc’s practice closed. Need my chart. What do I do?”

That’s a paraphrase of the starting tweet in a valuable thread today from a colleague in OpenNotes, Cait DesRoches. Here are the tweets. (I hope this all comes through on the blog; email subscribers, if necessary, click the headline to read this online.)

Hey med records experts – I need a consult. My sis needs her records from an independent prac that closed. She’s tried calling. Where should she go next to escalate the request? She’s in NYC @GraceCordovano @HealthPrivacy @ePatientDave

— Cait DesRoches (@cmd418) September 26, 2020
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Filed Under: FHIR, Health data Tagged With: health data, health IT, medical records, open notes, OpenNotes, patient advocates, patient empowerment Leave a Comment

July 29, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 5 Comments

My new work – Toronto’s PocketHealth: Cloud delivery of radiology images

Please put questions in comments at bottom of post. Thanks!

Immediate, contactless delivery of your radiology images – no more CDs, no more need to wait around or pay Fedex or put on your mask to come in and pick up the disk. Imaging studies delivered in the cloud.

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Filed Under: Advisory work, Health data, Innovation, patient engagement, Patient-centered thinking Tagged With: CT scans, gimme my DaM data, gimme my damn data, MRI, OpenNotes, patient empowerment, patient engagement, pockethealth, radiology 5 Comments

July 22, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 2 Comments

America hasn’t, but Europe re-opened safely. We can catch up. Here’s how.

As a subscriber to Amazon’s Audible books, I get a really good daily digest from the Wall Street Journal: four selected articles plus an editorial. Not surprisingly, many recent articles have been about the virus, including two yesterday. The first was the usual roundup of statistics, with no holds barred on how bad it is in the US, due to stupid re-openings. The second had coverage from Europe that bears repeating: How Europe Kept Coronoavirus Cases Low Even After Reopening. Key points:

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