In the spirit of public Q&A, I’m posting my answers to a good question: Do you know of a research team currently studying mobile peer support in the context of behavior change?
Archives for October 2013
Help the helpers
Please join me in honoring and learning from caregivers, first by watching Sarah Kucharski’s powerful, personal story: Second, watch my talk about the bigger picture and how people can help: http://www.viddler.com/v/14c53db8 Now: what’s your story? What roles do you see for caregivers in health care or in your own life? Please share your thoughts in […]
An unexpected gift
I was 3 when my maternal grandfather died, 40 years ago today. My only memory of Frank H.J. Figge is of him making me laugh. Thanks to M.J. Tooey, my community colleague at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, I learned that his “happy chuckle” was a hallmark, along with his “true research brain.” My mother, […]
Health 2.0: greatest hits of what I missed
Thank goodness for conferences which do a good job of capturing and sharing videos. So often I am choosing between sessions, talking with people in the hallway and missing a keynote or demo, or just failing to take notes. Here is a selection of people and talks I missed in person at the recent Health […]
How do we know that social media is important to health care?
Update: the videos are up — thanks, @EinsteinMed! On Friday, I spoke at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, along with Kevin Pho, MD. During a planning call, the symposium organizers had shared results from a faculty survey: Fully two-thirds do not use social tools on a regular basis. Asking them, therefore, to spend a half-day […]
What if health care…? in the spotlight
The “What if health care…?” train rolled through Stanford’s campus during the Medicine X conference and a hashtag was elevated to a mainstage discussion. In the video below, I tell how #whatifhc began and talk a bit about why Twitter was a good place for the dream-sharing to start: Paul Costello framed the #whatifhc panel as […]
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