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Archives for October 2014

Why sharing is the future of healthcare

October 31, 2014 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

An excerpt of a post on the Iodine blog: Imagine living with a condition so rare that every time you see a new doctor they confess to Googling it outside the exam room door.

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: cdc, Iodine, patientslikeme, Pew Research Center

“We just flipped a switch.”

October 24, 2014 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

“At one level, we just flipped a switch. It wasn’t a complicated, multi-faceted, variegated intervention. All we did was open up the doctor’s notes… Out of that came a cascade.” – Tom Delbanco talking about OpenNotes and how a seemingly simple change — allowing patients to view clinicians’ notes from their visits — is having […]

Filed Under: key people, medical records, net-friendly docs, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care Tagged With: OpenNotes, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

What if we stopped panicking and started solving the problem?

October 20, 2014 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

“What if, in the midst of a crisis in which workflows, policies, procedures, and operations must be altered, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) could distribute an app to emergency departments as easily as a software developer submits an app to the Apple App Store?” – Kenneth D. Mandl, MD, MPH, talking so much sense about […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, policy issues Tagged With: #whatifhc, SMARTHealthIT

We are at the beginning of a revolution…

October 15, 2014 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

I see parallels between the current state of health data tracking and the trajectory of adoption we saw in the early days of internet, broadband, and mobile adoption. Here’s a clip I just found from an interview with WHYY’s Dan Gottlieb in which I explain what I mean by that: I loved being part of the […]

Filed Under: key people, positive patterns Tagged With: Ernesto Ramirez, Heather Patterson, Quantified Self, Tracking for Health, WHYY

Let’s fix the culture of stress

October 13, 2014 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

The Unmentionables panel at Health 2.0 addressed issues we don’t talk about in public but which deeply affect our health and well-being. I posted the first set of videos last week — here is the second batch. Michael Painter, of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talked about his personal perspective on stress and building a culture […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, key people Tagged With: #health2con, Alexandra Drane, health 2.0, Kent Bradley, Michael Painter, On Purpose, Unmentionables, Vic Strecher

“We must redefine health to include life.” – Alexandra Drane

October 7, 2014 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

The first videos from the Unmentionables panel at Health 2.0 are up: http://www.viddler.com/v/f3f37d94 Note that this video contains both the opening and closing segments — tons of wonderful research and insight courtesy of Alexandra Drane. Look out for our two surprise guests who share some fascinating data and very quotable quotes: “In health care we […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: Alexandra Drane, Esther Perel, Fred Trotter, health 2.0, Jonathan Bush, Unmentionables, video

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