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Archives for May 2011

Peer-to-peer Healthcare: Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious.

May 25, 2011 By Susannah Fox 103 Comments

Here’s my simple definition of peer-to-peer healthcare: Patients and caregivers know things — about themselves, about each other, about treatments — and they want to share what they know to help other people. Technology helps to surface and organize that knowledge to make it useful for as many people as possible. An idea whose time […]

Filed Under: participatory research, peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: altruism, Children's Hospital Boston, Ian Eslick, Kevin Kelly, MIT Media Lab, patientslikeme, peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Internet, Quantified Self, TuDiabetes

The Social Life of Health Information, 2011–Susannah Fox

May 12, 2011 By Susannah Fox 36 Comments

Here it is: my 2010-11 yearbook! Will you sign it? That’s how I feel about this latest report from the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation: “The Social Life of Health Information, 2011.”  It contains all the insights we’ve gathered over the last year on mobile health, the health information divide, and peer-to-peer […]

Filed Under: general, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, Pew Internet

Map the frontier. Bring data. (More coming soon!)–Susannah Fox

May 11, 2011 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

The Pew Internet Project and California HealthCare Foundation will released our latest report on the internet’s impact on health and health care tonight at midnight (Eastern U.S. time). It is titled, “The Social Life of Health Information, 2011” (and for those following closely, that is a hint that we are updating trends we first measured […]

Filed Under: general, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, Mobile Health, Pew Internet

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