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I’m leaving Pew Research

July 17, 2014 By Susannah Fox 84 Comments

Believe it or not, 14 years ago, the idea of using the internet for health was a novel concept. That’s when Pew Internet published its first report about the social impact of the internet on health and health care, raising eyebrows across the U.S. Our data was cited in mainstream news outlets, in JAMA, and, […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Thomas Goetz, Tom Ferguson

How did we get here? And where are we going?

July 15, 2014 By Susannah Fox 17 Comments

The Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628

Video of my talk in Sweden is now online (skip to minute 7 unless you speak Swedish): It’s a comprehensive summary of my research so far, as well as an argument for listening to patients and caregivers as we move forward into the future. I opened with an example that was inspired by a visit […]

Filed Under: participatory research, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: C3N Project, cystic fibrosis, patientslikeme, peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, scurvy, Sweden, video

McKinsey’s “Healthcare digital future” checks out

July 12, 2014 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

Pew Research: Caregivers and Health Care Reviews Online

Stefan Biesdorf and Florian Niedermann of McKinsey wrote an excellent essay laying out 5 myths about health care and technology. It rings true so I decided to add my own evidence to their points: McKinsey Myth 1: People don’t want to use digital services for healthcare Pew Research has found that looking for health information is consistently […]

Filed Under: demographics, hc's problem list, trends & principles Tagged With: Dave Clifford, Eric Topol, McKinsey, mobile, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, SMARTHealthIT

The internet spins both ways

June 18, 2014 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Did you know some doctors once had a hand signal to warn their colleagues about internet-using patients? I talk about this and other health care history, plus a bit about the possible future (including some market opportunities), in an interview with Alex Howard: One study I cite in this segment of our conversation centers on […]

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: Alex Howard, Health Datapalooza, peer-to-peer healthcare, self-tracking, Tracking for Health

Health Datapalooza turns 5 (going on 15)

June 6, 2014 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Susannah Fox on screen at the Datapalooza - Photo by @CarlyRM

In my opening remarks for Health Datapalooza‘s final day, I tried to strike notes of “welcome!” and “let’s get real.” The adolescent meme got picked up, but without much context, so I thought I’d share what I said: The Datapalooza is five years old, but we are way past the kindergarten stage, when people outside the movement […]

Filed Under: health data, positive patterns, trends & principles Tagged With: Health Data, Health Datapalooza

Recognizing the value of data

May 30, 2014 By Susannah Fox 42 Comments

In 1999, when I was the editor of USNews.com, the dot-com boom was in full swing. Money seemed to be gushing out of the Bay Area and some sharpies at USNews saw an opportunity to cash in. They proposed slicing out the most marketable piece of the website — the education franchise — and selling […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, medical records, trends & principles Tagged With: big data, cdc, E-Patient Dave, Epic, Health Datapalooza, John Halamka, John Moore, Paul Levy, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, SMARTHealthIT, USNews, VentureBeat

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