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How do we know that social media is important to health care?

October 21, 2013 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Update: the videos are up — thanks, @EinsteinMed! On Friday, I spoke at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, along with Kevin Pho, MD. During a planning call, the symposium organizers had shared results from a faculty survey: Fully two-thirds do not use social tools on a regular basis. Asking them, therefore, to spend a half-day […]

Filed Under: demographics, net-friendly docs, patient networks, pt/doc co-care, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, KevinMD, medical education, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

Data collection and connection

October 7, 2013 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

A crowd of people reflected in a mirror

Health 2.0 featured a panel devoted to the “new environment for better health care decisions.” I shared some new findings and I’d love to hear what you think: [Update: the video of my talk is now online.] Where I work, at the Pew Research Center, we use data to hold up a mirror to society so you […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, health 2.0, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Tracking for Health

The unmentionables of health care

October 7, 2013 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

I plan to write more about my field trip to the future California, but for now here is the Storify I created about one incredible panel: Unmentionables 2013 at Health 2.0 Santa Clara. [<a href=”//storify.com/SusannahFox/unmentionables-2013″ target=”_blank”>View the story “Unmentionables 2013” on Storify</a>]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: Alexandra Drane, caregivers, Gabrielle Glaser, health 2.0, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Jessica Hagy, Joan Kennedy, Ramin Bastani, Unmentionables, Wendy Lynch

The new environment for health care decisions

September 30, 2013 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

“The tools are in place. The culture is shifting to expect that people have access to information and each other. There is mounting evidence that connecting patients with each other and with their data can have a positive effect on health outcomes…” – Health Care Hackers I’ll speak today at Health 2.0 Santa Clara about […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: health 2.0, tracking

Osasuna, Salud, Health 2.0

July 6, 2013 By Susannah Fox 23 Comments

I will speak on Monday in Bilbao at an event with 3 names but one goal: to understand how to use social media to innovate and improve health, with a special focus on evidence and the future. I’m looking forward to learning from my hosts and listening to two beautiful languages.

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, positive patterns, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: Basque, Bilbao, caregivers, Spain

One voice, many inflections: HIV clinical trial communications

May 10, 2013 By Susannah Fox 14 Comments

Demographics of Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr

I’m re-sexifying the top of this post since it’s so long and I want people to get these key take-aways (read on for details on each one): Expect clinical trial participants to share news with their networks. Plan accordingly. Make your information attractive and share-able where people already are, on Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc. Find […]

Filed Under: participatory research, research issues, trends & principles Tagged With: AIDS.gov, Clinical Trials, HIV/AIDS, participatory research

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