NIH BCIG Brainstorming event – Personal health records for patients

I am grateful for Jim DeLeo and Carl Leonard for giving me a slot to run a brainstorming session at the National Institutes of Health’s Biomedical Computing Interest Group. I called the meeting because I wanted NIH patients to have access to their medical records in services like Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. We had [...]

Welcome to the Patients Know Best blog

As a patient and a clinician I am excited by what I see: a confluence of disruptive and maturing technologies. Open source software, mobile computing, electronic medical records and patient power all mean that patients can get better care at lower prices as partners with their clinicians. As an entrepreneur, I also see a tremendous [...]