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Archives for June 2008

Pez Dispensers = Inspiration–Susannah Fox

June 30, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Check out the Diabetes Mine Design Challenge winners for examples of how e-patients can help heal health care, as we like to say around here. I’m especially taken with the Pez dispenser-inspired Maximum Slide gadget, but then again I may just be charmed by the comic book presentation of their idea.

Filed Under: found on the net

Participatory Medicine at NIH–Susannah Fox

June 23, 2008 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

I always suspect that audience members have as much to share as I have to say. So when Mary Madden and I received an invitation to speak at the National Institutes of Health we created a participatory talk about participatory medicine: 35 minutes of our findings; 45 minutes of discussion. It was a blisteringly hot […]

Filed Under: trends & principles

Data and Insights on Minority Populations–Susannah Fox

June 19, 2008 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

The Pew Internet Project‘s sample sizes for health surveys have been too small to do in-depth analysis on race/ethnicity and economic status. One challenge is that a significant portion of the respondent pool refuses to answer the household income question (the refusal rate can be as high as 20%). So we use education levels as […]

Filed Under: demographics

Physician, Teacher, Farmer–Susannah Fox

June 18, 2008 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Alan Greene emailed this dispatch from Italy: While attending the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Cheryl and I met a delightful man from the Netherlands named Martien Lankester, executive director of Avalon. He is a physician, teacher, and organic farmer. He remarked that doctors should become more like teachers, teaching people about health rather than […]

Filed Under: positive patterns

Psych Central in Time’sTop 50–Susannah Fox

June 17, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Congratulations to our own John Grohol, CEO & Publisher of Psych Central, which has just been named one of the 50 best websites by Time magazine! (Check out the rest of the list. I’m having fun reading up on food ingredients on Zeer.)

Filed Under: key people

Information Therapy Conference–Susannah Fox

June 14, 2008 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

The Information Therapy conference just ended yesterday and my head is buzzing with a few favorite moments: 1) Josh Seidman‘s speech connecting our venue, the Newseum, to his mission by talking about the history of the U.S. press, mail system, and medicine: the Pony Express was viewed as so democratic that it was almost subversive. […]

Filed Under: net-friendly docs

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