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Archives for July 2011

The e-Perspectives of e-Patient Dave–Susannah Fox

July 27, 2011 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Our own e-Patient Dave is featured in an extensive interview with Kim Chandler McDonald, an Australian journalist who is passionate about what she calls the “meHealth movement.” Part one of their conversation is posted today to coincide with the TED conversation, “Let Patients Help.”

Filed Under: found on the net

What I learned at Health Foo

July 19, 2011 By Susannah Fox 18 Comments

A crowd of men and women look at a device made of Lego

Update on Feb. 7, 2019: There are so many broken links, I’m de-linking and crossing them out but not deleting them, for posterity. They once worked! Just in case anyone is curious: my notes from Health Foo, a meeting held last weekend in Cambridge, MA. It’s long, so skim for the 9 lessons if you […]

Filed Under: general, key people, medical records, positive patterns Tagged With: Health Foo

Are patients knights, knaves, or pawns?

July 15, 2011 By Susannah Fox 35 Comments

Sachin Jain and John Rother’s JAMA commentary, “Are Patients Knights, Knaves, or Pawns?” is an article that begs to be shared.  The first time I read it I had to stand up, I was so excited — how can I design a survey to capture these questions?! was my first thought. My second thought was […]

Filed Under: policy issues, reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: altruism, Institute Of Medicine, jama, Patient Centered Care, Pew Internet

Information spreads like wildfire, right or wrong

July 11, 2011 By Susannah Fox 11 Comments

I am as interested in the negative effects of technology as I am in the positive, so I recently dove into a book by Seth Mnookin: The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, which focuses on vaccines. His summary of the Information Age challenge applies widely: We can either take it […]

Filed Under: trends & principles

Alpha Geeks in Health Care

July 6, 2011 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Here’s how tech guru Tim O’Reilly describes his work: So often, signs of the future are all around us, but it isn’t until much later that most of the world realizes their significance. Meanwhile, the innovators who are busy inventing that future live in a world of their own. They see and act on premises […]

Filed Under: patient networks, trends & principles Tagged With: Alpha Geek, Clinician, health care, Health Information Exchange, Innovators, librarians, Market Opportunities, Public Health, Public Health Workers, Rare Disease, rare diseases, Technology Gaps

Health Month, the game–Susannah Fox

July 1, 2011 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

I admit it: I’m not a gamer. But I am competitive. Plus I love micro-fitness challenges and I’ve read (and believe the lessons of) The Decision Tree. So when Jen McCabe described Health Month, I was intrigued. It’s a game in which you choose the rules for behavior change — from their list or of […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: Awesomeness, Behavior Change, Cut Bait, Decision Tree, Doing Push Ups, Fitness Challenges, Gamer, Greens, Habit, health games, Health Ins, Health Month, Heroism, Mccabe, Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner, Oven Timer, Running Out Of Life, Superhero, Supply Co, Ups, Vow

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