Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Project, presented this wonderful overview of the Project’s health findings at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, CA, on January 12. The Rise of the e-Patient View more presentations from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project Another summary of the Project’s health research is the […]
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Conference Season: Patients and Caregivers Welcome
We are deep into the fall conference season. One of my favorite trends is the increasing rate of inclusion of patients and caregivers at health care events, on stage or in the audience. The California HealthCare Foundation was a pioneer in this regard. Patients 2.0, an off-shoot of Health 2.0, and e-Patient Connections represent a […]
Mind the Gap: Peer-to-peer Healthcare–Susannah Fox
Update: My notes are now online: Mind the Gap: Peer-to-peer HealthCare. The newest material is in the section entitled, “Getting Past the Early-Adopter Stage” — roadblocks, opportunities, and beacons for change (patient leaders, clinician leaders, and technology leaders). Not surprisingly, the NIH audience members suggested adding “policy leaders” to that lineup. It was an extraordinarily […]
What I learned at Health Foo
Update on Feb. 7, 2019: There are so many broken links, I’m de-linking and crossing them out but not deleting them, for posterity. They once worked! Just in case anyone is curious: my notes from Health Foo, a meeting held last weekend in Cambridge, MA. It’s long, so skim for the 9 lessons if you […]
Health Month, the game–Susannah Fox
I admit it: I’m not a gamer. But I am competitive. Plus I love micro-fitness challenges and I’ve read (and believe the lessons of) The Decision Tree. So when Jen McCabe described Health Month, I was intrigued. It’s a game in which you choose the rules for behavior change — from their list or of […]
What if information spread more quickly than a virus?
On March 11, the White House hosted an event to mark National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The event was livestreamed from whitehouse.gov and is archived on YouTube: I have written before about the unique nature of conferences concerning sexually-transmitted infections, but I didn’t expect to hear the same frank talk at a White […]
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