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December 4, 2023 By e-Patient Dave 2 Comments

I’m thankful for care that cares – and for those making it practical

crop woman with heart on palms
Photo by Puwadon Sang-ngern on Pexels.com

This post is a departure from my usual: it’s about a specific company, for a specific reason. First, some background.

Since 2007, Thanksgiving has been a time of reflection for me. That’s the year I was diagnosed as almost dead, yet by Fall I got to hear “looks like you beat it!” What a Thanksgiving that was.

I know firsthand that when a person like me is in need, being cared for and about makes all the difference.

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Filed Under: Advisory work, Culture change, Leadership, Participatory Medicine, Patient-centered thinking Tagged With: caring, compassion, human understanding, nps, nrc health, patient satisfaction 2 Comments

September 11, 2023 By e-Patient Dave 10 Comments

Casey Quinlan’s QR code dream starts coming to life – using FHIR!

Regular readers know about “Mighty Casey” [left]: a very outspoken advocate for patient centered care who died in April. As her BMJ obituary said, she notoriously had a QR code tattooed onto her chest, linking to her complete medical history … because nobody in the health system could or would gather it all. So she did it herself. That’s an empowered patient!

Well, it got the attention of people working in FHIR health data standards. And this past weekend, at an event called a “Connectathon,” they hacked together a starter version of Casey’s dream.

Here’s the result – scan this QR code with your phone (or follow this link … same thing). It produces a human readable version of some of my own medical data.

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Filed Under: Health data, patient engagement, Patient-centered tech, Patient-centered thinking 10 Comments

June 5, 2023 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

Patient Voices workgroup is Wednesday’s keynote at FHIR DevDays

Montage of Brenda Shipley photo, DevDays website and Sequoia press release

“The administrative burden placed on patients and their care partners to use and share their health records must be addressed.” – Grace Cordovano, Consumer Voices co-chair

I’m thrilled that at this week’s DevDays FHIR developer conference, the patient keynote will be delivered by Bren Shipley, head of the Consumer Voices workgroup at the Sequoia Project.

For ten years the Sequoia Project has advocated for nationwide health information exchange, so their interest in FHIR is obvious. In February they launched a new Consumer Voices workgroup (press release), which parallels the sentiment of my 2019 post “HL7 makes it official: FHIR exists to serve patient needs.“

Sequoia’s Brenda (“Bren”) Shipley will be the speaker. We’ve never met (until today) and I won’t let the cat out of the bag regarding her talk, but suffice it to say, she and her eight-member patient workgroup independently developed principles based on real world stories that prove again how much suffering can result when health data is not at the point of need.

We must fix this. Welcome to Sequoia’s Consumer Voices! FHIR’s Patient Empowerment workgroup has found an important new ally.

Filed Under: FHIR, Health data, Patient-centered thinking Tagged With: consumer engagement, fhit, hl7, interoperability, patient engagement Leave a Comment

May 11, 2023 By e-Patient Dave 1 Comment

Mighty Casey’s estate sale: broadcasting tech, modern and rare!

People in a hurry can skip to the product listings below, but we hope you’ll take a moment to learn about this fallen hero of the healthcare revolution.

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Filed Under: Health data, Health policy, patient engagement, Patient-centered thinking, podcast 1 Comment

December 2, 2022 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

When Patients Design the Care They Want: the Boston Women’s Health Collective

A slide I often use

In August Medical Futurist Bertalan Meskó and I published Patient Design: The Importance of Including Patients in Designing Health Care in JMIR, in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). It ties together aspects of both our work. He’s a medical futurist, less than half my age, with a clear vision of how medicine will work in a future unencumbered by today’s limits. For me, an advocate for patient empowerment, it’s rooted in patients having the power to get the care they want. Our views come together in the idea of patients designing the care they want. From our abstract:

… genuinely empowered people living their lives and managing their health according to their own priorities, in partnership and consultation with physicians as needed. 

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October 8, 2021 By e-Patient Dave 3 Comments

Terrific WSJ essay on the evolving patient-physician relationship: “Can patients decide their own care?”

In the twelve years I’ve been studying the evolution of medical science and the sociology of healthcare – the relationships – I’ve never read anything that stopped me in my tracks with how it summed it all up so quickly. This one, by Talya Miron-Shatz, did. Click through and give it a read – it’s not long.


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Filed Under: Participatory Medicine, patient engagement, Patient-centered thinking Tagged With: feminism, participatory medicine, patient empowerment, patient engagement 3 Comments

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