Here is my third post in a series of look-backs at the November 2008 Chronic Disease Care conference in San Francisco. (OK, yes, it’s now January 2009 — I’m savoring the experience, not Twittering it!) The first post was about spreading improvement beyond early adopters, the second was devoted to patient voices, and this will […]
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Cyberchondria: Old Wine in New Bottles
Just before Thanksgiving, Microsoft released a study entitled, “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search.” Ryen White and Eric Horvitz took advantage of a data set that few people have access to (log files from Microsoft’s Live Search engine and MSN Health and Fitness) as well as a survey of 515 […]
Participatory Medicine: Text of my speech at the Connected Health symposium–Susannah Fox
I should have posted this when I posted my slides, but better late than never.
Participatory Medicine, Connected Health–Susannah Fox
The Center for Connected Health’s 2008 Symposium was held in Boston on October 27-28, 2008. I gave a talk entitled, “Participatory Medicine: How User-Generated Media are Changing American Attitudes and Actions, Online and Off.” As always, the conversations I had with people after the speech were the best part of the event. Lena Sorenson, RN, […]
e-patients: How they can help us heal healthcare, chapter 1–Susannah Fox
e-Patient Dave joined this group in March 2008 thanks to an introduction by Danny Sands, MD, his primary care physician. Dave quickly established himself as the number one fan of the “white paper,” which we had edited and published after Tom Ferguson’s death. On his home blog, The New Life of e-Patient Dave, he noted […]
Participatory Medicine at NIH, part 2–Susannah Fox
The National Institutes of Health recently gathered a group of consumers and people who study them. We met off-site at a hotel in Bethesda, which I thought was an apt metaphor for the day’s question: How can NIH better communicate with the public? First, I said, make it easier to access your research. Make your […]
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