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Health Search–Susannah Fox

May 23, 2007 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Bill Tancer is the general manager of global research at Hitwise and writes a column for Time.com called “Science of Search.” His recent column on “Restless Leg, Mumps and Other Maladies” addressed the effect of media attention to certain conditions & diseases. The column is a neat summary of a pattern we had noticed: The […]

Filed Under: demographics Tagged With: breast, cancer, cervical, hitwise, lung, prostate, search, skin, time magazine

What health care can learn from Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel

February 13, 2015 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Google is upgrading health search…again. In 2010, I was inspired by Animal Farm to write that Google saw some health sites as more equal than others. This time I turned to Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton.

Filed Under: positive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: #bcsm, #whatifhc, Apple, cystic fibrosis, Erin Moore, Google, HealthKit, Hugo Campos, IBM Watson, Iodine, multiple sclerosis, patientslikeme, Quantified Self, Rare Disease, Smart Patients, Stanford Medicine X

Chicken soup for decision-makers

September 13, 2013 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Ceramic casserole with a shino glaze by Marcia Halperin

Half of all health searches in the U.S. are done on behalf of someone else. That’s been a core finding of the Pew Research Center’s health portfolio since 2000. We have called information the new chicken soup of the digital age, brought to the bedside by people who want to help. Now, in the social […]

Filed Under: end of life, hc's problem list, shared decision making Tagged With: hospice, palliative care, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, rehab

Fact checking at Medicine X

October 5, 2012 By Susannah Fox 32 Comments

Pew Internet: Internet Help vs. Harm

I had the great honor of being part of the first Medicine X conference at Stanford University last weekend. I presented a sneak preview of new survey results collected by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation. Overall, the conference was magical, as I wrote in a previous post. In this post I […]

Filed Under: ethics, trends & principles, understanding statistics Tagged With: Pew Internet, Stanford Medicine X

For some people, it’s still 1994

December 8, 2011 By Susannah Fox 18 Comments

Here’s a question which inspired me today, received via email from Christie Silbajoris,  director of NC Health Info: My library is rethinking its provision of services to the public.  We’ve got a history of going beyond what the average academic health sciences library provides in this area but in this age of budget cuts (and […]

Filed Under: general, hc's problem list, policy issues, public Q&A, shared decision making

Peer-to-peer Healthcare at the White House–Susannah Fox

March 10, 2011 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

It’s hard to say this without sounding like I’m bragging, but that’s not going to stop me: I’m going to the White House tomorrow to talk about Pew Internet Project’s latest research on peer-to-peer healthcare.

Filed Under: patient networks

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