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How peer-to-peer health advice can help people take their meds on time (and so much more)

July 15, 2020 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Two sets of hands sort pills into a pillbox

(Yes, it’s the third post in 5 days from me, but when you’ve got cool stuff to share, why wait?) Matthew Zachary‘s podcast, Out of Patients, is one of my favorites because he brings his whole self to health care discussions, as you’ll hear in our conversation. It was a pleasure to unpack my latest […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: #health2con, Amy Tenderich, Atul Gawande, Brene Brown, InquisitHealth, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Invent Health, Matthew Zachary, patientslikeme, PillPack, podcasts, Tom Ferguson

Tracking the trackers

May 13, 2020 By Susannah Fox 25 Comments

In Dark Times Shine Your Light Brighter

UPDATE: On August 12, I’ll moderate a discussion about prioritizing patient engagement and inclusion of patient-generated COVID-19 data in clinical registries. It is being offered free and open to the public. Read a preview post and register here for the webinar. Every day I see a new example of a survey or other tool to […]

Filed Under: health data, participatory research, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, research issues Tagged With: 23andme, Ancestry, Body Politic, COVID19, cystic fibrosis, Health Data, Open Humans Foundation, patient registries, patientslikeme, Webmd

Pandemic problem-solving

April 29, 2020 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Hands feed fabric into a sewing machine

The COVID19 pandemic is forcing everyone to learn new skills on the fly.  Clinicians are teaching each other how to hotwire a ventilator to serve more than one patient.  People are 3D printing spare parts for medical equipment and learning how to sew protective masks. Parents are sharing strategies for convincing their teenagers to stay home – and […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: COVID19, maker movement, peer-to-peer healthcare

Surviving a pandemic like an artist

April 14, 2020 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Snow covered mountains with text reading: Life is so bizarre it must be a bad dream

Through her work as a film-maker, Maggie Whittum helps the rest of us make sense of this upside-down world we find ourselves in. And she reminds us that, unfortunately, this disorientation is familiar to people who survive stroke. Andrew Simonet, founder and director of Artists U, recently wrote an essay entitled, “This is What We […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Andrew Simonet, art, COVID19, Maggie Whittum, stroke

Why entrepreneurs should listen to patients & caregivers

April 9, 2020 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Screenshot of Harvard Business Review article about how chronic disease patients are innovating together online

I am thrilled to share this excerpt from the Harvard Business Review article I wrote, “How Chronic-Disease Patients Are Innovating Together Online”: The internet gives us virtually unlimited access to each other. That deceptively simple insight is an untapped opportunity in health care. When companies are searching for their next idea, they should look to […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, social media Tagged With: Christopher Snider, Chronic Conditions, chronic disease, Dana Lewis, HopeLab Foundation, innovation, Vicky Rideout, Well Being Trust

Public Q&A: COVID19 precautions and care

March 31, 2020 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

Woman wears a white baseball cap and a cloth mask over her nose and mouth

As a trusted node on my friends’ “nerd network” (i.e., the people who are known to dig in and research everything so others may not have to) I have been asked a few questions that I’d like to share, in the hopes that other people can add their own perspectives — and new questions! Question: […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, public Q&A Tagged With: COVID19, end of life, palliative care, patientslikeme

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