Activist patient Casey Quinlan of Richmond, Va., wasn’t at the HIMSS conference last week, but she was closely following the action from the Patient Engagement Symposium on Sunday, April 12. That was where former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari called for a “day of action” by patients to request access to their medical records.
Quinlan, a breast cancer survivor and self-described “mighty mouth,” took to Twitter to protest the CMS plan to roll back the Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirement that 5 percent of patients become engaged via portals or personal health records to just one single person per reporting period. She did not hold back.
World on fire. Film at 11. http://t.co/PqWXKW79PE Dear CMS: You just threw a lit match at a can of gas. Thanks! #himss15#gmdd#humanrights
— Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey) April 13, 2015
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#hcldr pic.twitter.com/8siSeNvN6e — Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey) April 15, 2015
Then, Quinlan, who has a tattoo on her chest with a QR code linking to her own medical records, took to Bitstrips to spread the “gimme my damn data” mantra espoused by fellow activist “E-Patient” Dave DeBronkart.
Up-Goer Five is a concept that involves using simple language: “Can you explain a hard idea using only the ten hundred most used words? It’s not very easy.”
Quinlan said she plans on making at least one new cartoon a week going forward.