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Quantified Self Public Health Symposium

April 6, 2014 By Susannah Fox 13 Comments

Health Patch from Vital Connect

On April 3, I was part of  a symposium organized by Bryan Sivak, CTO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2; and Gary Wolf, Director, Quantified Self Labs, where I presented the Pew Research Center’s findings on tracking for health. I uploaded my remarks in a separate post — this one is more of a “notes […]

Filed Under: key people, participatory research, pt/doc co-care, pts as teachers, research issues Tagged With: Gary Wolf, Pew Research Center, public service, QSPH, Quantified Self

How do we know that social media is important to health care?

October 21, 2013 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Update: the videos are up — thanks, @EinsteinMed! On Friday, I spoke at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, along with Kevin Pho, MD. During a planning call, the symposium organizers had shared results from a faculty survey: Fully two-thirds do not use social tools on a regular basis. Asking them, therefore, to spend a half-day […]

Filed Under: demographics, net-friendly docs, patient networks, pt/doc co-care, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, KevinMD, medical education, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

Peer-to-peer health care in 5 minutes or less

June 26, 2012 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

This is a highlight reel of my keynote at last year’s Medicine 2.0 conference. I’ll be speaking at Medicine 2.0 Boston on Sept. 15 to discuss patient-provider collaboration for patient safety.

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles Tagged With: peer-to-peer healthcare

The Rise of the e-Patient

January 19, 2012 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: demographics, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care

When Patients Band Together: Far From a Disgrace

September 8, 2011 By Susannah Fox 23 Comments

When it comes to news sites, I love scanning readers’ comments as much as the original articles. Comments are an unfiltered feed, a window into public opinion (in other words, catnip for someone like me). One thread caught my eye recently. Ron Winslow wrote a very nice piece in the Wall Street Journal about how […]

Filed Under: patient networks, pt/doc co-care Tagged With: Advocates, Cardiologist, Mainstream Media, Mayo Clinic, patient groups, Patient Network, Peer To Peer, Rare Disease, rare diseases, Roadblocks, Ron Winslow, Scad, Universal Health Care, Using Social Networks, Virtual Registry, Wall Street Journal

“You can do it. We can help.”–Susannah Fox

April 15, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

That’s Home Depot’s slogan and the subject of an excellent essay by Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine. Be sure to read the comments, where there is a healthy debate going on about mental illness, triple cheeseburgers, and paradigm shifts.

Filed Under: pt/doc co-care

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