– Zoe Brain, in a comment on the New York Times magazine story, The Hazards of Growing Up Painlessly, which garnered an extraordinary display of public ignorance and fellowship around rare conditions. My hope is that the reporter and editors read every comment and learned from the community peer review of the article.
Don’t immediately believe the mhealth hype – Dave Clifford
Carrying on the tradition of taking an epic comment and publishing it as a stand-alone post, I’m very happy to feature Dave Clifford’s take on the new mobile health data: I care very deeply about numbers and measuring what people are doing in reality versus expectations. I believe that polling is a useful quantitative tool […]
Go mobile
In 2008, I summarized Pew Internet’s health findings in 7 words of wisdom: Recruit doctors. Let e-patients lead. Go mobile.* Four years later, I’m banging the same drum, but with even more data to back it up. The market for mobile-ready health information continues to grow, even as health apps are just simmering along (in […]
Sincerity in the storm (welcome to our world)
Hurricane Sandy “slapped the snark out of Twitter” for media reporter David Carr. In his column today, Carr discusses a newfound sense of community, which will sound familiar to anyone who uses social media to navigate an acute or chronic health condition: – Twitter turns serious during a crisis – Certain users and hashtags can […]
The e is for engagement
What if we redefined the Quantified Self movement to include everyone who keeps a pair of “skinny jeans” in their closet? What if the 85% of U.S. adults who own a cell phone understood that it’s potentially a tool for health tracking? What if everyone designing health care tools first talked with patients and caregivers […]
“Tell the truth and trust the people.”
– Joseph Newton Pew Jr., 1946 (a key part of the history of the Pew Charitable Trusts) I explain why this has become one of my mottos in an interview with Chris Snider: Just Talking.
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