For the past two months, the Flower team has been stirring our idea pot, circling around to distill from your and our many thoughts the bare essence of what Flower is. On waves and Skype calls, we’ve spend hours working on communicating our ideas clearly and succinctly.
Last week, five of us (Steve Daviss, Carlos Rizo, Dirk Stanley, Tim Sturgill, and Cindy Throop) finalized our Mission and Vision statements. This has actually been a rather challenging process, but I think we’re there now.
Mission Statement
Flower advocates for a common “language” so you, your providers and the places where you receive care can talk and share your health data in real time, when needed and as authorized.
Vision Statement
Flower’s vision is that patients we should be able to access their our health data and have universal standards for sharing it with who they we want.
We welcome comments, criticisms, and kudos. Even more importantly, we welcome further involvement from anyone interested in making this vision reality. Roll up your sleeves and join a call, contribute to a wave, add a comment below, or email us.
[Edit 3/13: In Vision Statement, changed "patients" to "we", because we are all patients.]
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Very nice all, please everyone go and sign up for your PHR here…
http://www.personalmedicine.com
and give me some feedback on usability. House calls coming soon to your doorstep.
Dirk, the lovely thing about using our EMR platform is that I can create meaningful great thoughtful notes, without having all the third party rigamorole and useless details…
it’s got SUPER fast search which I need, and we can quickly add in a superbill which consumer faces in the PHR for patients if they need it.
the other cool thing is that there is a “private notes” section for the physician to quickly write something private that does NOT consumer face, if I wish… as in…
” Strongly suspect this mother is poisoning her child in a Munchausen’s by proxy and I am making a phone call to social services” or whatever you need to privately say.
We are just completing Google health interface and working on microsoft next.
PM physicians speak FLOWER!!
Y’all come down to health2.0 in florida and see me soon! We’re launching there… and it is a fertile ground for you to find like minded docs and Health IT
I think ” speaking FLOWER” and practicing ” Participatory Medicine” go hand in hand…
Best,
Natalie Hodge MD FAAP
http://www.personalmedicine.com
As Dirk knows, I am concerned by the recent passage of the health care reform law and how will affect the vision and mission statements for SpeakFlower. First, if we are not allowed to keep govt from accessing our medical records, then what affect would this have on patient willingness to share sensitive information in their records?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904575132111888664060.html
Second, at a recent meeting of the AAAAI (an allergy professional society), our HIT advisors said that there’s going to be a great culling of the current EMR/EHR companies from around 300 to 10, based on govt regulations regarding ‘meaningful use’ and to-be-determined EHR capability requirements. How does SpeakFlower expect to be one of the 10 sole survivors, especially with the lobbying done by huge politically-connected companies such as General Electric, etc?
I guess my main question is with greater govt control over all aspects of medicine and future HIT, has Speak Flower’s time passed?
Matt Bowdish MD
Colorado Springs, CO
I don’t think it’s time has passed. SpeakFlower is currently in suspended animation, until we find the optimal route to achieve success, but discussions are continuing.