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HealthChangers: Mark Ganz

December 16, 2020 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Ten bowling pins lined up

I learn from every conversation I have with Cambia’s outgoing CEO, Mark Ganz — lucky for everyone, we recorded this latest one! Here’s a quote I loved: “A wise person once told me that the way to make progress in some ways is to think of a bowling analogy. You don’t try to knock 10 pins down […]

Filed Under: key people, reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: Cambia Health Solutions, Mark Ganz

The Power of Connection

June 25, 2015 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Portraits of past HHS secretaries above Post-its

Technology enables the mission of U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). It widens access to information and tools and pushes power out to all parts of the network, from our colleagues in the federal workforce to our fellow citizens. At HHS, we seek to create a learning system that recognizes the potential of […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, policy issues, positive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: Fda, Health Datapalooza, Hhs, iTriage, maker movement, patientslikeme

What health care can learn from Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel

February 13, 2015 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Google is upgrading health search…again. In 2010, I was inspired by Animal Farm to write that Google saw some health sites as more equal than others. This time I turned to Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton.

Filed Under: positive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: #bcsm, #whatifhc, Apple, cystic fibrosis, Erin Moore, Google, HealthKit, Hugo Campos, IBM Watson, Iodine, multiple sclerosis, patientslikeme, Quantified Self, Rare Disease, Smart Patients, Stanford Medicine X

What if health care…?

February 8, 2013 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Sunflowers by Stuck in Customs on Flickr

For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking friends to join them. All of a sudden we’d transformed a bare patch into something beautiful. I thought for sure […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, positive patterns, reforming hc Tagged With: #whatifhc, Health Foo

What’s your health care dream?

February 3, 2012 By Susannah Fox 11 Comments

Regina Holliday's painting for the Families USA conference

Note: This is two posts in one — scroll down to read Regina Holliday’s point of view. From Susannah Fox: For me, Twitter is a free-wheeling space where people dance with ideas. Anyone is welcome to jump into the spotlight and take a twirl. That’s how I see hashtags – spotlights on circles of people, […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, reforming hc, social media Tagged With: #whatifhc, C3N Project, Regina Holliday, The Walking Gallery, Twitter

Are patients knights, knaves, or pawns?

July 15, 2011 By Susannah Fox 35 Comments

Sachin Jain and John Rother’s JAMA commentary, “Are Patients Knights, Knaves, or Pawns?” is an article that begs to be shared.  The first time I read it I had to stand up, I was so excited — how can I design a survey to capture these questions?! was my first thought. My second thought was […]

Filed Under: policy issues, reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: altruism, Institute Of Medicine, jama, Patient Centered Care, Pew Internet

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