“Like Pulling Teeth:”The pain and struggle of extracting patient data from the jaws of the medical industryDec 21, 20201Dec 21, 20201
Published inTincture“New” Facebook vulnerability was reported a year ago. By patients.Yesterday the BBC reported “Facebook says it has discovered a new privacy flaw on its platform that lets some app developers access data…Nov 7, 20191Nov 7, 20191
Published inTinctureRemember why PatientsLikeMe was formed: patients. The need’s still there.On social media the patient world is abuzz about the news that PatientsLikeMe, a trailblazing commercial patient community (but much more…Jun 26, 20191Jun 26, 20191
Published inTinctureHL7 makes it official: #FHIR exists to serve patient needs.2019's US #FHIRDevDays event is finished, with a thrill: never have I seen a community of health IT people so committed to actually…Jun 18, 2019Jun 18, 2019
Published inTinctureThe #OpenAPS gospel: Dana Lewis sets DevDays on #FHIRPreviously, covering the #FHIRDevDays gathering at Microsoft headquarters near Seattle, I said “Tuesday I heard two blow-the-roof-off…Jun 14, 2019Jun 14, 2019
Published inTinctureYes, it DOES look like FHIR will enable Gimme My DataLast week I blogged a seven-part series ending with “Does FHIR provide what Google Health tried to?” Today I’m in Seattle at the…Jun 13, 2019Jun 13, 2019
Published inTinctureDoes FHIR provide what Google Health tried to?Part 7 of a series on my decade-long hunt (yes, since 2009) for true access to, control of, and use of our health data.Jun 7, 20191Jun 7, 20191
Published inTinctureA movement is born: “Gimme My Damn Data”Watch this three minute video, and wonder: why would three Deloitte consultants (plus two sons and a wife) record a music video about…Jun 7, 20191Jun 7, 20191
Published inTinctureMy health data errors exploded in the newspaper. Why?Part 5 in a series on the importance — and potential power — of access to our health data.Jun 5, 20191Jun 5, 20191
Published inTinctureAn information quality trainwreck: Google Health revealed the mess in my hospital’s dataPart 4 of a series on the importance — and potential power — of patients’ access to our health data.Jun 4, 20191Jun 4, 20191