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Wow! How? Peer Warmline

May 9, 2024 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Wow! How? Health

This essay is part of my LinkedIn newsletter series: Wow! How? Health. About two million people in North Carolina experience a mental health or substance use disorder crisis each year. Historically, about half did not receive treatment because of cost, leading to repercussions for families, communities, and individuals. A new Peer Warmline, staffed by counselors […]

Filed Under: Champions, Networkers, peer-to-peer health care, policy issues, Solvers Tagged With: Kody Kinsley, mental health, North Carolina, peer counseling, peer-to-peer healthcare, Promise Resource Network, Wow! How? Health

Wow! How? Patient Data Rights

February 8, 2024 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Wow! How? Health

Until relatively recently, people living with diabetes were shut out of conversations about improving the devices that keep them alive. Device manufacturers saw clinicians as their customers, not patients, and nobody was asking them to change that stance, including the FDA.  Patients and their loved ones were grateful to have insulin pumps and continuous glucose […]

Filed Under: health data, key people, Networkers, policy issues, Solvers Tagged With: American Diabetes Association, Anna McCollister, Dexcom, diabetes, Fda, Howard Look, MIT Press, Networkers, Rebel Health, Solvers, Tidepool, Wow! How? Health

Wow! How? Peer Support

January 11, 2024 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Wow! How? Health

Hank Azaria’s tribute to Matthew Perry was as much a love letter to peer support as it was a remembrance of his friend: “…as bad as we feel, as low as we go, we tend to feel we’re alone in it, whether our problem is alcoholism, a bad marriage, illness, depression, strife. We feel that […]

Filed Under: Networkers, peer-to-peer health care, policy issues Tagged With: AA, Esther Perel, Gabrielle Glaser, Rebel Health, SAHMSA

Wow! How? Public Access to Research

November 10, 2023 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Handwritten memo authorizing the name Grateful Med for the U.S. National Library of Medicine's online searchable database of biomedical citations and abstracts

This is a cross-post from my LinkedIn newsletter. Feel free to join the conversation there or post your thoughts in the comments below. The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed indexes over 36 million biomedical research abstracts – a searchable trove of evidence that has been available to the public since 1996. It is both a national […]

Filed Under: Champions, key people, policy issues Tagged With: Champions, librarians, National Library of Medicine, pubmed, Rebel Health, Wow! How? Health

The Promise of Patient-Led Research Integration

January 18, 2023 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

In Dark Times Shine Your Light Brighter

The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) and Patient-Led Research Collaborative (PLRC) have developed a collaborative research model for use by patients and patient organizations, funders, research institutions and other traditional biomedical research teams. The project was funded by a grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The model is represented by a set […]

Filed Under: Networkers, participatory research, patient networks, policy issues, research issues, Solvers Tagged With: Council of Medical Specialty Societies, Gina Assaf, Hannah Wei, Patient-Led Research Collaborative, PCORI

Consumer-strength tools,
industrial-strength innovation

August 10, 2021 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Group of people in front of huge screen of numbers

On August 31, I’ll be part of the 2021 Federal Wearables Summit. This post is my attempt to “flip” the event by sharing what I intend to say. Please let me know what you think in the comments below. In 1986, Eric von Hippel of MIT identified “lead users” as people who identify and solve […]

Filed Under: Champions, health data, Networkers, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, policy issues, Solvers Tagged With: Body Politic, Cajun Navy, Eric von Hippel, Fiona Lowenstein, LongCovid, MIT Press, Patient-Led Research Collaborative, Rock Health, self-tracking, wearables

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