Comments on: In the Seattle Times talking about Web 2.0 and Health Care http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/05/11/927 e-Health. Patient empowerment. Washington, DC. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:10:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: ICMCC Newspage » Blog Archive » Group Health trolling cyberspace to learn what patients think http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/05/11/927/comment-page-1#comment-2559 ICMCC Newspage » Blog Archive » Group Health trolling cyberspace to learn what patients think Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:54:11 +0000 http://www.tedeytan.com/?p=927#comment-2559 [...] Ted Eytan: In the Seattle Times talking about Web 2.0 and Health Care. Eagle Dawg Blog: Probably not even worthy of the C list: HMO searching for Web 2.0 mentions and [...] [...] Ted Eytan: In the Seattle Times talking about Web 2.0 and Health Care. Eagle Dawg Blog: Probably not even worthy of the C list: HMO searching for Web 2.0 mentions and [...]

]]> By: Sherry Reynolds http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/05/11/927/comment-page-1#comment-1019 Sherry Reynolds Sun, 11 May 2008 19:11:57 +0000 http://www.tedeytan.com/?p=927#comment-1019 As one of the few consumer advocates on national and local health informatics forums like the AHIC Successor (HHS - Office of the national coordinator) and the Puget Sound Health Alliance - Health Information and Technology Committee it is exciting to try and balance the transformative power of health informatics with information over-load while building a personalized patient centered care system. It is amazing to see the cultural difference between out-dated hierarchial power based models (I am currently at a premier medical school in Ca) and the participatory style of medicine practiced at GHC and Kaiser. Thankfully I spent 3 years at GHC under the tutelage of people like Ted Eytan and Matt Handley so I know what is possible. The next challenge will be to move beyond technology and utilize the social networking models (generation Y) and integrate more patient participation into our health care. Concepts like Medical Record Banking where patients and providers will be able to deposit and share both PHR and EMR information are intriguing, models of patient participation being utilized at the VA (Vista and MyhealtheVet) are also opening up new venues. National standards to encourage interoperabality may also play a role (the EMR vendor used at GHC can't for example exchange records yet with the UW or Swedish hospital in Seattle even though all 3 use the same vendor). Sherry As one of the few consumer advocates on national and local health informatics forums like the AHIC Successor (HHS – Office of the national coordinator) and the Puget Sound Health Alliance – Health Information and Technology Committee it is exciting to try and balance the transformative power of health informatics with information over-load while building a personalized patient centered care system.

It is amazing to see the cultural difference between out-dated hierarchial power based models (I am currently at a premier medical school in Ca) and the participatory style of medicine practiced at GHC and Kaiser. Thankfully I spent 3 years at GHC under the tutelage of people like Ted Eytan and Matt Handley so I know what is possible. The next challenge will be to move beyond technology and utilize the social networking models (generation Y) and integrate more patient participation into our health care.

Concepts like Medical Record Banking where patients and providers will be able to deposit and share both PHR and EMR information are intriguing, models of patient participation being utilized at the VA (Vista and MyhealtheVet) are also opening up new venues. National standards to encourage interoperabality may also play a role (the EMR vendor used at GHC can’t for example exchange records yet with the UW or Swedish hospital in Seattle even though all 3 use the same vendor).

Sherry

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