I’ll be updating this through the evening with supporting links, so come back later for more information, but I want to get this published. Fifteen minute video:
“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.)
Olivier Karasira wins People’s Choice award at FHIR DevDays Patient Track
After last week’s FHIR DevDays conference, I blogged on Wednesday that Morgan Gleason had won the judges’ award in the Patient Innovator Track. There was another winner – for the first time we did a People’s Choice award, and it was won by Olivier Karasira, a man in Rwanda working on a remarkable project: “Turning Paper into FHIR in Africa.”
Morgan Gleason, 21, wins the second FHIR DevDays Patient Track
Last week at the virtual DevDays conference (for the FHIR software standard that I’ve blogged about so much) we held the second Patient Innovator Track. Watch the winning pitch, 10 minutes long, from Morgan Gleason, fresh out of college. She describes her complex situation and how she’s learned to deal with it manually, and tells the FHIR developer community what she needs – what she wants them to help create, so she can walk into each doctor visit fully prepared without going through all the work she has to do now:
A glimpse of how FHIR works, for people who’ve fought to get their data
This is a quick post without a lot of explanation, targeted to perhaps a small number of people but perhaps also intriguing to a lot more. This image is a quick summary of the post below:
[What’s FHIR? I’ve been blogging about it for more than a year; here are all the posts, newest first, though if you’re new to the concept please start here. This post doesn’t require understanding FHIR’s significance, but it sure helps.]
The context: someone needs to get their health data.
[Read more…]Tech-savvy patients: enter the “Patient Innovator Track” at FHIR DevDays!
Deadline Friday, May 22: See timeline below, learn more on the track page, then submit your application. Prizes, fame, community!
