How do you define “health data”? To borrow a phrase from Daniel Solove, it is a concept in disarray and in need of a taxonomy. Here are the items that fall naturally into the health data basket: electronic health record data current or past health and disability status, including mental and physical well-being medication lists […]
internet geology
Persistence vs. flow
The Pew Research Center has released its latest report celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Web. This one looks forward to 2025, with experts’ predictions. Here’s my favorite quote so far, from the “Pithy Additions” section: Jerry Michalski, founder of REX, the Relationship Economy eXpedition, observed, “The Internet gives us Persistence — the ability to leave things for […]
Health data’s adolescence
I wrote a guest post for the Health Data Consortium — here’s the start of it: This year marks the 25th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal to create what we now call the Web, the visual, hypertext organizing system which overlays the internet. The pace of internet adoption gathered speed once people could more intuitively […]
The Web at 25
My latest assignment at the Pew Research Center had nothing to do with health and health care, but everything to do with my personal history as an internet geologist. Here’s the report: The Web at 25 in the U.S. It was incredibly fun to spelunk in our survey archives, digging up the first national measures […]
“I was born too soon” – my grandmother, upon seeing the Web for the first time
The 19th International AIDS Conference, held this week in Washington, DC, included a session entitled, “The State of New Media and HIV,” hosted by AIDS.gov. My role on the panel was a familiar one – to present the Pew Internet Project’s latest research about mobile, social technologies and their impact on health and health care. […]
The impact of the internet on one man’s life
Nell Minow is a movie critic and corporate governance watchdog (yep, both). She and I were seated together at a luncheon a few weeks ago, part of a weekend-long meeting on leadership. We had just watched the movie, Act of Valor, and began talking about different kinds of leaders and heroes — those who seek […]
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