I love call-in radio shows, listening to them and (dream come true) being a guest on them.* Listeners never fail to amaze me with their insights and ideas. Today I was on the Kojo Nnamdi Show’s Tech Tuesday with Rahul Parikh, MD, to discuss “Dot Com v. MD: Health Advice & Resources Online.” We filled […]
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“When our observations about ourselves are formally collected, rather than just remembered, it’s easier to get advice and comment, and to improve our reasoning with the help of others. ‘Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down,’ said Adam Savage of Mythbusters. Technology helps us write it down.” – Ernesto Ramirez, […]
Sneak preview: Tracking for Health
This interview was recorded at Stanford Medicine X where I gave a sneak preview talk about the report Pew Internet is releasing on Monday, “Tracking for Health.” Joyce Ho is a fabulous interviewer — as a med student, she definitely adds her own insights to the conversation about our findings.
2 down, 3 to go
I’m doing a ton of “day job” writing these days, analyzing survey data about how Americans gather, share, and create health information. Here is a rundown of the reports released so far and what’s coming up: 1) Mobile Health 2012 (Nov. 8, 2012) 85% of U.S. adults own a cell phone and, of those, 31% […]
Thinking critically about Big Data and health care
If the health geek tribe had its own “Most Viewed” ranking on the New York Times site today, “Big Data is Great. But So Is Intuition” by Steve Lohr would be near the top. Everyone I respect (who’s awake, reading, and sharing) is tweeting about it. Lohr writes: Big Data proponents point to the Internet […]
Research, writing, and the public conversation
I’m crunching survey data nonstop these days, writing two reports to be published in January, so I’m not leaving my writing cave office very often. But before I went into quiet mode, I recorded a podcast with Fran Melmed and Carol Harnett, hosts of the CoHealth Checkup. They elicited some stories I haven’t told elsewhere […]
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