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Cyberchondria: Old Wine in New Bottles

December 2, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: news & gossip, understanding statistics Tagged With: artificial intelligence, cyberchondria, Diana Forsythe, microsoft, New York Times, search

Participatory Medicine: Text of my speech at the Connected Health symposium–Susannah Fox

November 3, 2008 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Light bulbs in the night sky - a photo by Ted Eytan

I should have posted this when I posted my slides, but better late than never.

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: connected health, health 2.0, participatory medicine, pew internet project, social media

Participatory Medicine, Connected Health–Susannah Fox

October 30, 2008 By Susannah Fox 14 Comments

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, […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: data, e-patients, participatory medicine

e-patients: How they can help us heal healthcare, chapter 1–Susannah Fox

September 18, 2008 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: chapter reviews

Participatory Medicine at NIH, part 2–Susannah Fox

September 15, 2008 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: trends & principles

Latinos’ sources of health information–Susannah Fox

August 13, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

The Pew Hispanic Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report today that is required reading for anyone interested in a more nuanced picture of the e-patient population: “Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge.”

Filed Under: demographics

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