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Social Media’s Promise for Public Health

August 18, 2009 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help. That’s my summary of presentations from last week’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media conference, where I had the sense, once again, of a tribal meeting, but this one had the urgency of war council. The enemy […]

Filed Under: policy issues, positive patterns Tagged With: Air Demo, Alignright, Communication Marketing, connected health, Distributive Networks, Edge Of My Seat, Flickr, Flu Virus, Health Advocates, Health Communication, Health Marketing, Health Questions, Media Campaigns, Mexican Government, Myspace, Nall, patientslikeme, pew internet project, Public Health Campaigns, Salmonella Typhimurium, Second Life, Swine Flu, Tweets, Twitter, War Council, Yellowbrickroad

Open Access to Publicly-Funded Research: Let Them Eat Cake?

May 5, 2009 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Update on 12/3/14: Nature re-ignited the access debate when they announced that they will make all their articles “free to view” (but if you read the fine print: it makes the “dark social” practice of #icanhazpdf and other access work-arounds illegal). To catch up, see my Storify: Five-alarm fire in Open Access Land.  Marketplace aired […]

Filed Under: policy issues Tagged With: journal, Marketplace, Open Access

Personalized Medicine, the Next Frontier–Susannah Fox

December 10, 2008 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Nancy B. Finn is a journalist with an expertise in the implementation of digital communications in health care. This is her second guest post on e-patients.net: When an individual patient visits his or her doctor with a problem, traditional clinical diagnosis is made and treatment is administered based on the patient’s symptoms, medical and family […]

Filed Under: policy issues Tagged With: Center for Genetics and Genomics, clinical diagnosis, disease prevention, genetic, genomic, Harvard Medical School, Nancy B. Finn, Partners Healthcare, personalized medicine

Not Just a Pretty Picture–Susannah Fox

September 4, 2008 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published health risk data in a way that only a researcher would love (Reason.com’s Hit & Run blog links to the subscription-only charts here in case you want to marvel at the ugliness). Luckily The New York Times took notice and painted a picture that everyone can appreciate. […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, policy issues, trends & principles

Statistics, Genetics, and Playing the Lottery–Susannah Fox

July 14, 2008 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

I learned two important lessons in a statistics course I took in college: 1) don’t play the lottery; 2) be skeptical of statistics, especially nice-looking charts and graphs. Yes, I did grow up to be a major purveyor of statistics, but I think it’s a good thing that my first instinct is to be skeptical […]

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Technology as a means, not an end–Susannah Fox

February 14, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

I was part of a brainstorming session yesterday about the role of technology in health and health care, in preparation for a June 2008 Ix conference here in DC. Here is one of the quotes I captured from another participant: Technology is always framed as an end and it is not. It is a means. […]

Filed Under: policy issues Tagged With: EHR, EMR, technology

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