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Conference organizers:
Steal these ideas!

March 5, 2018 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

Conference stage lit up in violet with a white X hanging over the panelists

On February 21, Larry Chu, MD, announced that Stanford Medicine X would take a hiatus. He shared the following story: Eight years ago, I posted a tweet announcing my intention to launch my first conference at Stanford. I received a variety of responses, but the one that remains the most poignant is the one I received from […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, e-patient stories, positive patterns Tagged With: #medxsm, Abby Norman, Bill Simpson, Britt Moody, Charlie Blotner, conferences, Erin Moore, Geri Lynn Baumblatt, Hugo Campos, Julie Flygare, Larry Chu, Sean Ahrens, Stanford Medicine X, Terry Marlin

The silver lining of jury duty

February 12, 2018 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

US Constitution by Jonathan Thorne on Flickr

Imagine taking a 7-hour flight on a low-budget airline every day for 5 weeks, sitting elbow to elbow with the same 22 people, listening to fragments of some of the most violent, upsetting stories you have ever heard. That was my experience of grand jury duty in Washington, DC. I tried to sit quietly and endure. […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: civic duty, Peer To Peer, Quality Improvement, Washington DC

Letter to shareholders

January 29, 2018 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Susannah Fox in the audience at a public event at the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services

For tax purposes, I recently added up all the various sources of income I’d received in 2017. It was a real hodge-podge of a year since I left my appointment at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and started working on my own projects again. This exercise brought home the lesson that […]

Filed Under: key people, positive patterns Tagged With: Cambia Health Solutions, caregivers, family, Hhs, Hope for Henry, HopeLab Foundation, Laurie Strongin, Margaret Laws, Mark Ganz, peer-to-peer healthcare, Warren Buffett

Re-imagining care for hospitalized kids

November 8, 2017 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

On Nov. 1-2, 2017, Hope for Henry convened a diverse group of parents, kids, clinicians, designers, educators, and entrepreneurs to reimagine care for hospitalized kids. I’ll disclose that I am an advisor to Hope for Henry and helped organize the event, but I hope you’ll believe me when I say that it was, objectively, a […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, key people, positive patterns

Back to school with food allergies

September 5, 2017 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

A child walks down a sidewalk in the early morning sunlight

Food-allergy parents all over the U.S. are engaging in our particular back-to-school rituals: gathering signatures on forms, packaging up emergency medications (one for the nurse, one for the classroom, one for the backpack…), and stocking up on lunchbox essentials. But what about the teachers? How are they preparing? I’d never considered it until my niece […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: food allergy

We need a whole-community response in health and health care

August 29, 2017 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

A group of men stand in knee-deep flood waters with two kayaks. One man is in a kayak.

At no other time in history have we been able to communicate across the world, in an instant, with anyone and everyone who has knowledge and experience to share. Never has it been so easy to solve problems together. When it comes to your health, your community may be your superpower.

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, positive patterns Tagged With: Health System Change, Hurricane Harvey, maker movement, peer-to-peer healthcare, Texas

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