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Champions fast-track innovations

June 13, 2022 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Rocket launches into a blue sky

Champions help take a scrappy patient-led idea to scale. They give Seekers, Networkers, and Solvers access to resources held by mainstream institutions such as funding, media attention, regulatory guidance, or access to labs and manufacturing facilities. Champions fast-track innovations. This is the fourth post in a series that I’m writing to introduce the archetypes of […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: MIT Press, peer-to-peer healthcare

Solvers attack problems

May 31, 2022 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Axes, pliers, hammers hung on a wooden wall

Solvers identify challenges, then test and develop new concepts, code, and inventions to meet their needs. They work on a problem with a singular focus because their life – or the life of a loved one – often depends on their ability to find or invent a solution. Some Solvers openly share their designs online for […]

Filed Under: key people, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Invent Health, maker movement, MIT Press, peer-to-peer healthcare

Networkers pool resources

May 23, 2022 By Susannah Fox 11 Comments

A man sits alone in a lifeboat saying to himself, "I feel so alone. There's no one out there like me."

“You are not alone.” People who are newly diagnosed or facing a health challenge long to hear those words. Connection is an antidote to suffering and confusion. When they are able to tap into peer-to-peer networks of patients and caregivers, Networkers learn in community about their condition, shrug off the burdens of isolation and shame, then urge […]

Filed Under: key people, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: MIT Press, peer-to-peer healthcare

Seekers go out on the hunt

May 19, 2022 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

As I’ve shared in previous posts, I’m writing a book for MIT Press about the key role that peer health advice plays at every level of our health care system. The people I’m describing in my book do not wait to be invited to create opportunities for positive change. They seize opportunities to take action. They reject […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: MIT Press, peer-to-peer healthcare

Too legit to quit

April 18, 2022 By Susannah Fox 17 Comments

Sunflowers with a bee

Sara Riggare, PhD, an expert in patient-led research and personal science, tweeted this animated GIF depicting the common process in starting personal science, which is based on Anne Wright’s work: Andrea Downing was among those who replied, writing: “My feedback: We’ve been saying for years what you outline here. The question is: how do we […]

Filed Under: health data, key people, peer-to-peer health care, research issues Tagged With: Andrea Downing, Anne Wright, Dana Lewis, Gary Wolf, Long Covid, personal science, Quantified Self, Sara Riggare, Unrest

What can we do by Tuesday?

October 20, 2021 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Close up picture of a dandelion

If you have spent time learning about health care improvement, you may have heard someone ask, “What can we do by Tuesday?” It’s an urgent question that asks you to immediately apply an abstract principle to your daily practice. I had heard it repeated many times over the years, without attribution, and I was curious […]

Filed Under: key people, trends & principles Tagged With: Don Berwick, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Kedar Mate, Mike Evans

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