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What if your clinician gave you a prescription to check out a patient group that they knew to be good?

February 12, 2020 By Susannah Fox 44 Comments

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Amy Gleason (@ThePatientsSide) captured this line of mine, delivered on a panel at the Health Datapalooza yesterday. Her tweet generated an interesting cascade of reactions ranging from: “This is potentially dangerous” to “This is obvious (and old news).” I thought I’d expand on my observations and see if people want to expand on theirs in […]

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, public Q&A Tagged With: ACOR, Bon Ku, Danny Sands, David Fajgenbaum, E-Patient Dave, Health Datapalooza, peer-to-peer healthcare

How might we push power out to the edges of the network?

January 24, 2020 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

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Cambia Health Solutions’ podcast, HealthChangers, invited me to share a few lessons learned, both personally and professionally. Listen in or read the transcript (below): Leslie Constans: One of the things I wanted to kick off our conversation with was finding out a little bit about this idea of working at the intersection of health and technology […]

Filed Under: health data, public Q&A Tagged With: Cambia Health Solutions, caregivers, HopeLab Foundation, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Well Being Trust

Public Q&A: conference organizing

December 2, 2019 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

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A friend asked me to share some of my tips about how to organize a useful, comfortable, inclusive health care conference. Meeting planning is not what I do for a living, but since I attend about a dozen events each year, I’ve captured quite a few observations about how to create a great experience for […]

Filed Under: public Q&A Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, conferences, food allergy, Stanford Medicine X

Public Q&A: Acronyms, protocol, and other lessons learned from switching fields

July 29, 2019 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

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If you have switched career tracks, what lessons did you learn? What advice would you have for someone entering a new company, organization, or even a new culture? Here’s an excerpt from my 2016 interview with The Public Manager about working for the U.S. government: Most of your career was outside of the federal government. What have […]

Filed Under: public Q&A Tagged With: career advice, Hhs, innovation

Public Q&A: How to connect teens with health peers

March 18, 2019 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

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In the spirit of Public Q&A, I am sharing a question I received from someone who helps run outreach and support programs for a disease-focused nonprofit: “In your research did you learn about what mode and types of connecting teens preferred? Did any teens express wishes for something online that they couldn’t find in terms of connecting with peers?” Essentially, […]

Filed Under: demographics, peer-to-peer health care, public Q&A Tagged With: Facebook, HopeLab Foundation, peer-to-peer healthcare, teens, Vicky Rideout, Well Being Trust

Public Q&A: Empowering people in their relationships with clinicians

January 21, 2019 By Susannah Fox 32 Comments

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In the spirit of public Q&A, I’m sharing an intriguing question I received recently from a community colleague. Check out my answer and then add your ideas and suggestions in the comments below. Do you know of any particularly good or interesting services to empower patients in their relationships with doctors, especially ones which involve […]

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, public Q&A Tagged With: #InventHealth, Clinicians, Facebook, Inspire, Invent Health, maker movement, patient activation, patientslikeme, peer-to-peer healthcare, Smart Patients, Streetwyze, Voro

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