So I have decided to start blogging about “programmable self”. For that reason, I will be re-publishing the programmable self category from fredtrotter.com on programmableself.com. Programmable self is a merger of two sets of concepts, quantified-self which is the use of technology to get accurate data about yourself, and behavioral economics/psychology which deals with motivation […]
Patient Centered Health Internet
I have recently been approached by several policy people who are interested in ensuring that the consumer/patient is at the center of the coming Health Internet. Through my work at the Cautious Patient Foundation, I have become pretty obsessed about only working on patient-centered and patient-empowering technologies. I often work on software for doctors, but […]
A patient by any other name
Recently two communities have been discussing a pretty basic question. What should we call the artist formerly known as “patient”? The two communities are the e-patient community and the “patients” in the patient safety movement, specifically those that met at the last IHI meeting. But why would we want to call patients anything other than […]
Meeting Patient Safety
Today, I met with a tremendous number of patient safety advocates at IHI. My work with Cautious Patient Foundation centers around patient safety. But I have, up until now, not met very many Patient Safety advocates in person. That all changed today. I was introduced to forty of them at once. Frankly, it was heart-wrenching. […]
Direct and CONNECT governance too far from technology
Hi, I have just submitted a comment to the HITPC governance working group regarding there process for making governance recommendations to ONC. I make the argument that for the most part, comments from HITPC regarding privacy and security architecture have been largely counter-productive because they fail to account for what the chosen NW-HIN (the artist […]
Kaiser Ontology Interview
To the novice, the term “interoperability” means that two systems can talk. To the expert, it means that they can understand each other. To much of our current data interchange is “meaning poor”. To get past that problem, we need to do lots of work with ontologies, which, loosely put, are knowledge dictionaries. Most clinicians […]
Direct Project Updates
The Direct Project has a new name (formerly NHIN Direct), a new website directproject.org and an excellent write up over on O’Reilly Radar called Healthcare communication gets an upgrade. I am also interested to see that the O’Reilly folks seem to agree with me that this new NHIN thing really should be thought of as […]
The ethics of weight and body fat on Twitter
Update 12-16-2010: I have just purchased a Withings scale. Indeed, as I discussed in my original article, it will only let me twitter my weight instead of my body fat. How frustrating. But, you can customize the static portion of each tweet. I will be tweeting my weight with a bit.ly link ( http://bit.ly/gS05Nz )to […]
Health Internet
For whatever reason people simply do not get what the NHIN is and what its implications are. This feels like a repeat of what happened to me more than a year ago. The NHIN (which has been rebranded the “Nationwide Health Information Network” or NWHIN from “National Health Information Network” in response to these silly […]
Checking with Facebook Places before voting
Hi, So I wrote a new facebook application that gives you credit for supporting my fathers congressional campaign. My father is running in Texas District 20 (the Alamo District), and I am writing this article as a specific guide to his supporters with iphones/ipads and facebook accounts. (If you do not have a facebook account… […]