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Public Q&A: How should a youth-focused sexual health clinic incorporate social media and SMS into their work?

May 6, 2013 By Susannah Fox 11 Comments

Continuing my series of public Q&A sessions, I’ll share the following: We are working on an innovation concept paper to a local foundation and would like to explore how to better use social media and SMS at youth-focused sexual health clinic. We need to be able clearly articulate the benefits of social media and SMS […]

Filed Under: demographics, public Q&A, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: HIV/AIDS, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, sexual health, SMS, teens

Public Q&A: How do (older, lower-income) patients learn?

May 2, 2013 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Rebecka Sexton of the Center For Innovation at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA, emailed a great question and I’d like to share it more widely: We are working on a project here at Carilion on chronic diseases related to Population Health Management related to COPD. I am specifically working on the education component from […]

Filed Under: demographics, net-friendly docs, public Q&A Tagged With: Ivor Horn, safety net

Public service researcher

May 1, 2013 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Vintage nurse recruitment poster: For your country's sake today. For your own sake tomorrow.

I think of myself as a public service researcher. The Pew Charitable Trusts and the California HealthCare Foundation provide the funds for the work I do and, in turn, I do everything I can to inject the findings into the public conversation: publish reports and data sets online, for free; talk to reporters and bloggers […]

Filed Under: participatory research, public Q&A, research issues, social media Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Pew Research Center, public service

How I choose which conferences to attend

April 25, 2013 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Stanford Medicine X stage

I wrote this as a comment last year in response to a question about why Medicine X was so magical. I’m elevating it to a post thanks to encouragement from E-patient Dave and because I’d love to hear from other people about how they choose events to attend. 5 criteria I consider when I receive […]

Filed Under: general, public Q&A Tagged With: BJ Fogg, conferences, David Rosenman, Denise Silber, health 2.0, Health Foo, HealthCamp, Indu Subaiya, Larry Chu, Mark Scrimshire, Matthew Holt, Mayo Transform, patients included, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Stanford Medicine X, Stanford Mobile Health, Tedmed, Tim O'Reilly

How many people use “ask a doctor” sites?

February 25, 2013 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Here’s a question I received that I thought was worth a public answer: How many people go online to seek a doctor’s opinion about something, such as on an “ask a doctor” site? Pew Research has not asked a survey question that specifically measures that activity, but we have something pretty close, based on our […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, public Q&A, trends & principles

Is there hope for SMS health alerts?

December 17, 2012 By Susannah Fox 66 Comments

Pew Internet: Demographics of cell- and smartphone ownership, Sept 2012

Richard Fury, MD, of Kaiser Permanente emailed me recently, asking: “Is there any hope for SMS health alerts when patients are due for preventive care?  As you know, patients want this, we want to provide this, but without symptomatic incentives adoption is poor. Thoughts?” I think there is hope for SMS health alerts targeting people […]

Filed Under: public Q&A, trends & principles Tagged With: connected health, mobile, Mobile Health, SMS

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