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April 25, 2022 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

Speeches as empowerment: transforming the culture of care

Speaking isn’t just a business – it’s a vehicle for accomplishing what we really need: changing how people think … especially, empowering them to take effective action, to become involved in their health. Here’s a photo from a speech to radiologists, encouraging them to share images with patients:

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Filed Under: Clinical trials, Culture change, Events, Innovation, Participatory Medicine, patient engagement, public speaking Tagged With: clinical trials, healthcare speakers, participatory medicine, patient empowerment, patient engagement Leave a Comment

November 5, 2021 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

Ethics and barriers: BMJ webinars on patient access to medical records

The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) continues to lead the world in patient & public partnership with clinicians, including more coverage of patient empowerment topics than anyone else I know in medical publishing. Some of the issues are unique to Britain but many are global cultural issues – not least being the balance of power between clinicians and the patients they serve.

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Filed Under: Culture change, Government, Health data, Health policy, Innovation, patient engagement, Patient-centered tech Tagged With: health IT, medical records, OpenNotes, patient empowerment Leave a Comment

October 12, 2021 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

New podcasts and webinars, #2: Harry Glorikian’s “The Future You” (two parts)

I mentioned last week that there’s been an upsurge in people reaching out to carry forward the message we e-patients have been evangelizing for ages. Hallelujah!

That post was an interview for the HIMSS Learning Network. Today’s is really exciting: Harry Glorikian, author of MoneyBall Medicine, has a new book coming, The Future You, about the new world of data-empowered medicine, with a rebranded podcast to match, and he asked me to be his first guest! Ya think I was ready for that?? It went great – so great he made it his first two episodes!

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Filed Under: FHIR, Health data, Innovation, Participatory Medicine, patient engagement, Patient-centered tech Leave a Comment

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

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

May 18, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 1 Comment

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.

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Filed Under: FHIR, Health data, Innovation, Patient-centered tech 1 Comment

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