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Stanford Medicine X: Participatory research

February 7, 2014 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Brett Alder and I spoke last night at Stanford Medical School’s Engage & Empower Me class: Today is a travel day for me, back to the East Coast, so any comments posted may wait in the queue — but please let me know what you think! I’ll post more about this event when I’m home, […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, net-friendly docs, participatory research, research issues, social media Tagged With: Stanford Medicine X

Is there a generational tech divide in medicine? And is that the main problem?

November 11, 2013 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

Jay Parkinson recently wrote a post responding to a question raised by Atul Gawande: Can technology be a change agent for health care? Jay’s answer focused on the generational tech divide in medicine today. One quote: “Many of the most influential doctors practicing medicine today have an antagonistic relationship with computers. Change will only come in […]

Filed Under: demographics, hc's problem list, net-friendly docs Tagged With: Atul Gawande, family, Jay Parkinson, Manhattan Research, Pew Research Center, Rosalie Yerkes Figge

How do we know that social media is important to health care?

October 21, 2013 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Update: the videos are up — thanks, @EinsteinMed! On Friday, I spoke at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, along with Kevin Pho, MD. During a planning call, the symposium organizers had shared results from a faculty survey: Fully two-thirds do not use social tools on a regular basis. Asking them, therefore, to spend a half-day […]

Filed Under: demographics, net-friendly docs, patient networks, pt/doc co-care, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, KevinMD, medical education, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

3 articles worth your time

July 3, 2013 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Here are three articles spinning around in my head today: A Letter to Patients With Chronic Disease – written by Rob Lamberts, MD, in 2010, tweeted this morning by Ronan Kavanagh, MD. Key quote: “So when you approach a doctor – especially one you’ve never met before – you come with a knowledge of your disease […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, key people, net-friendly docs, pts as teachers, research issues Tagged With: #whatifhc

“Googling is a sign of patient engagement”

May 3, 2013 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

Let Patients Help book cover

Wrap your head around that idea. It’s one of the many insights I learned from reading Let Patients Help — and I’m freaking quoted in that chapter! But that’s E-patient Dave, seeing things that nobody else sees and, in this case, making up words like “boogloo” (Bing + Google + Yahoo). As he writes: 81% […]

Filed Under: e-pts resources, key people, net-friendly docs Tagged With: Danny Sands, E-Patient Dave, Let Patients Help

Public Q&A: How do (older, lower-income) patients learn?

May 2, 2013 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Rebecka Sexton of the Center For Innovation at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA, emailed a great question and I’d like to share it more widely: We are working on a project here at Carilion on chronic diseases related to Population Health Management related to COPD. I am specifically working on the education component from […]

Filed Under: demographics, net-friendly docs, public Q&A Tagged With: Ivor Horn, safety net

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