1. Foundation Principles Patient is not a third-person word. Your time will come. The right of a desperate person to try to save themselves The right to know what your options are The right to pick up your data and pursue an option elsewhere

2. The hospital transmitted every condition I ever had, with no dates; all conditions were shown as current “When e-Patient Dave pushed the button to send his data to Google Health, what happened was front page news.” False medication warning

3. Lesson: Unmanaged data quality produces trainwrecks

4. Please: Make meaningful use include giving us access to our own medical records..It’s only the beginning. But it’ll be a bold first step into the future.