Patient-centered tech

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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May 12, 2021 By e-Patient Dave 9 Comments

Question for the diabetes community: should Freestyle readings match finger sticks?

Screen capture from Peer To Peer Health Advice video

This is an exercise in “peer to peer health advice.” I’m asking for advice, from “the DOC” (diabetes online community) – more on that below.

Here’s a message I received from someone who’s really peeved about a technology for managing his Type 2 diabetes. Does your experience match his? Should his digital device match the results from finger sticks? If not, for heaven’s sake why?

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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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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.]