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Clinical trials jump on the Cluetrain

June 22, 2018 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

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When the organizers of a National Cancer Institute workshop on social media and clinical trials invited me to speak, they said: We have an ethical obligation to understand social media. Social media is not just trendy. It’s a tool, an opportunity to act in an ethical way, not only to increase recruitment but to help […]

Filed Under: research issues, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: Cluetrain Manifesto, national cancer institute, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, social media

If we give people access to the tools they need to solve problems, they will

March 28, 2018 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

A woman building an device by hand

One of my core beliefs is that if we give people access to the data, information, and tools they need to solve their own problems, they will. The Maker movement is an example of a group of people who embody this idea. They modify and improve the world around them. They look at a problem and not only say, […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, trends & principles Tagged With: #InventHealth, George Hacks, Invent Health, maker movement, Stanford Medicine X

Access to data = access to power

October 19, 2017 By Susannah Fox 17 Comments

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Data about your health and that of your community can empower you to make — or demand — changes. When there are gaps in the record or the data don’t exist, participatory data collection empowers people to contribute to the public conversation. Access to data is access to power. On November 17-19, 2017, Data for […]

Filed Under: health data, policy issues, trends & principles Tagged With: Adverse Childhood Experience, asthma, Black Lives Matter, Blue Button, FHIR, flip teaching, Health Data, health disparities

Aging, housing, health

September 12, 2017 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

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Brandeis University hosted a one-day symposium on aging, housing, health, technology, and other issues. Thanks to the people who captured these insights!

Filed Under: demographics, policy issues, trends & principles Tagged With: Alan Kay, Alexandre Kalache, Atlas of Caregiving, Brandeis University, caregivers, Danny Sands, Leslie Kernisan, Muriel Gillick, Pamela Ressler, Pippa Shulman, Rosalie Yerkes Figge, Ruth Finkelstein

The online health revolution (it’s not too late to jump in)

April 11, 2017 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

Thanks to Joyce Lee, MD, for resurfacing this talk on Twitter today! In watching it again, I’m struck by how the data needs to be updated, but the insights don’t. Clinicians have not yet missed their chance to contribute to the online health revolution (nearly 4 years later)! The tools are going to change, but what […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: Clinicians, Pew Internet

Flashback to the Future

June 30, 2015 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

One year ago this week I was in Sweden to deliver a talk at Almedalen, a festival of ideas held on the island of Gotland. This year, my community colleague John Nosta brought the latest in American ingenuity to the same event, telling the crowd that digital health is not a far-off promise, but instead […]

Filed Under: key people, trends & principles Tagged With: Almedalen, John Nosta, Sweden

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