‘E-Patient’ Dave: Time to open the medical records spigot
We have the latest slogan for the patient empowerment/data liberación movement: the medical record "spigot." This comes courtesy of "E-Patient" Dave deBronkart.
Get My Health Data campaign launches in time for ‘Data Independence Day’
July 4 is upon us, and with that also comes "Data Independence Day," when consumers are supposed to start asking en masse for copies of their medical records, in hopes of demonstrating to providers, IT vendors and healthcare policy-makers that there truly is wide demand for such access.
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Susannah Fox named CTO of HHS
Susannah Fox, long a proponent of the "data liberación" strategy in government and champion of engaged patients, has been named chief technology officer of the Department of Health and Human Services.