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Disconnectedness kills, connectedness heals

March 23, 2015 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

If you crave inspiration, tune in to the Robert Wood Johnson’s Pioneering Ideas podcast by subscribing to the iTunes feed or listening on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rwjf-podcasts/final-cut-episode-8/s-q4foj

Filed Under: key people, research issues, trends & principles Tagged With: #RWJFpodcast, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Speak up: The network is our superpower

March 13, 2015 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

I have a new post up on Medium, illustrated with this gem from a 2012 post: An excerpt: We can’t let misinformation—or worse—go by without comment. I think it’s time for more people to speak up in health care. More pediatricians should express their measles outrage. More people should chronicle the reality of living with chronic conditions.

Filed Under: ethics, research issues, trends & principles, understanding statistics Tagged With: Pew Research Center, Stanford Medicine X

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

Data for health

November 4, 2014 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Last week I was part of the first community meeting for Data for Health, a program sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It was held in Philadelphia on October 30 (an absolutely beautiful fall day). You can catch up on the #data4health tweets thanks to Symplur — and there were some good ones: Some themes of #Data4Health: […]

Filed Under: health data, policy issues, trends & principles Tagged With: #data4health, Health Data, Health Data Rights, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, self-tracking, Tracking for Health

Break my heart, make me change

August 1, 2014 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

Arrows connect Give and Take; a bracket shows that Care encompasses both.

Take a deep breath and then look at this data about HIV in the U.S.: I have seen these numbers before, but never laid out so clearly and so beautifully. Thank you, Jeff Guo of the Washington Post, for breaking my heart. Thank you, because I think we all need our hearts broken anew from […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: #whatifhc, AIDS.gov, Bedsider, Black Lives Matter, HIV/AIDS, Kicesie Drew, peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Research Center, Vic Strecher

Who is ready to stand naked in front of the mirror of data?

July 29, 2014 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

In this talk at the Quantified Self Public Health symposium, I argue that we must respect the context of people’s lives while designing health interventions, tools, and research projects. Not everyone is ready to stand naked in front of the bright light of numbers on a screen. Let’s be gentle in our approach, especially to […]

Filed Under: health data, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, caregivers, chronic disease, Google Poetics, Health Data, Pew Research Center, QSPH, Quantified Self, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, self-tracking, Tracking for Health

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