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Archives for April 2014

On celebrating “small wins” and lifting up women and girls

April 25, 2014 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

Two items stopped me in my tracks this week. Sharing them here on my outboard memory so I don’t forget (and hopefully they will inspire you, too).

Filed Under: key people, positive patterns Tagged With: Rare Disease, Stanford Medicine X

Just-in-time help

April 18, 2014 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

One man helping another with his tie on the T by jsperber

Jodi Sperber snapped this photo of an older man helping a younger man with his tie on the T in Boston. I love it and shared it online (after getting Jodi’s permission). Roni Zeiger was one friend I sent it to and he replied, “Networks of microexperts ready to help each other: you never know where […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, peer-to-peer health care, social media Tagged With: altruism, Jodi Sperber, microexperts, Unmentionables

Secret questions, naked truths

April 6, 2014 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

Google Poetics: I don't know how to...

My prepared remarks for the Quantified Self Public Health Symposium (here are some notes from the event): You know when you type the first few words of a query and Google suggests the rest based on what thousands of other people have typed next? There’s a Twitter account called Google Poetics that takes those suggested phrases […]

Filed Under: demographics, key people, pt/doc co-care, research issues Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, caregivers, chronic disease, Chronic Diseases, diabetes, Google Poetics, Kim Vlasic, Pew Research Center, QSPH, Quantified Self, tracking, Tracking for Health

Quantified Self Public Health Symposium

April 6, 2014 By Susannah Fox 13 Comments

Health Patch from Vital Connect

On April 3, I was part of  a symposium organized by Bryan Sivak, CTO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2; and Gary Wolf, Director, Quantified Self Labs, where I presented the Pew Research Center’s findings on tracking for health. I uploaded my remarks in a separate post — this one is more of a “notes […]

Filed Under: key people, participatory research, pt/doc co-care, pts as teachers, research issues Tagged With: Gary Wolf, Pew Research Center, public service, QSPH, Quantified Self

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