I just wanted my readers to know (I do have readers… don’t I ) that Regina Holiday is hosting a crowdfunding event on medstartr It is the cheapest way I know of to get a copy of an original from Regina. -FT […]
ePatient HIMSS 2012 Badge
Hi, I am happy to announce with psuedo-permission from the Society for Participatory Medicine (by which I mean that they have not asked me not to do this) a Twitter badge for HIMSS 2012. There are a handful of the epatients who are attending this years HIMSS (alas, I am not among them) and they […]
Running Motivation: shoe hacking failure
This is not intended to be a “running blog”, but it is intended to be a blog about how I am trying to hack my own running motivation. I am a pretty big guy (almost 300 at times) and while I enjoy running, it is not because I am good at it. This is why […]
The e-patient reach
As many of my readers know, I am now regularly blogging on radar. There, I have written a post called epatients: the hackers of the healthcare world. It is pretty much a tour of how anyone who is already in the technorati, can become an e-patient. It heavily features the work that I have been […]
Running Motivation: new shoes
Lately I have become interested in running motivation. I am launching a running motivation app next week, and I thought I would give my readers a little taste of the process that brought me to design and build the new site. Running is one of the best exercises. There are several that really compete for […]
Where I blog
Just so my RSS feed readers know, I will now be blogging at Programmable Self and at O’Reilly Radar. I hope this helps everyone to keep track of what is going on. -FT […]
The Patient Scientist
Over on the Society for Participatory Medicine mailing list we have been discussing the recent Readers Digest blog post titled: 50 things your nurse wont tell you. You really have to read it before reading this article, this post will only make so much sense without that. I suggested that part of being an epatient […]
OCR refuses FOIA request
Joe Conn, one of the best Health IT reporters I know, has been denied FOIA access to breach data reported to the Office of Civil Rights. Honoring FOIA requests is a critical part of how the people ensure that the government is not abusing its power. That might sound paranoid, but blanket rejections like this […]
Steve Jobs is dead. Long live Steve Jobs.
Today, Steve Jobs died. This blog post will be only one among thousands of posts devoted to his drive and his genius. Thousands will celebrate a technical legacy that almost no technologist can hope to replicate. The original Macintosh, those early films from Pixar, the iphone… hell I am typing this on a Macbook Pro […]
VistA Custodial Agent Launches, and it doesn’t suck (much)
[Update 2011-10-19 Many of the issues here applied only to the initial launch of OSEHRA and began to be addressed almost immediately. Do not assume everything you read below still applies] As typical, I was alerted to the fact that Tiag, the winner of the Open Source VistA custodial agent competition, has launched a website […]