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Health Datapalooza X

March 25, 2019 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Lit candles in the shape of the number 10 on top of a pink frosted cupcake

This week is the 10th anniversary Health Datapalooza. It’s a milestone worth celebrating. In 2010, I attended what was then called the Community Health Data Forum at the Institute of Medicine. I posted a preview: Making Health Data Sing (Even If It’s a Familiar Song) and below are my notes from what we knew even […]

Filed Under: health data, key people, medical records, policy issues Tagged With: Alain Rappaport, Alex Fishman, Alex Howard, Alexandra Carmichael, Andrew Wilson, David Hale, Health Data, Health Datapalooza, Kristi Miller Durazo, Palantir, Regina Holliday, Roni Zeiger, Tim O'Reilly, Todd Park

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

Twitter: filter, suggestion box, idea machine, window

October 18, 2010 By Susannah Fox 20 Comments

On Friday I dashed off this tweet: PhD student just asked me which journals I read to stay up to date on health + tech. My answer: Twitter. It was classic RT bait and indeed it was echoed dozens of times by fellow Twitter geeks — more than any other tweet I’ve written.  But I […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: #HeLa, Alex Howard, Andre Blackman, Brian Ahier, danah boyd, E-Patient Dave, Gilles Frydman, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Kent Bottles, Mark Hawker, Mothers with Cancer, Nejm, P.F. Anderson, Pew Internet, Stowe Boyd, Tim O'Reilly, Twitter, Wendy Sue Swanson

E-patients, Cyberchondriacs, and Why We Should Stop Calling Names

August 30, 2010 By Susannah Fox 63 Comments

New concepts need gimmicks. Proven concepts do not. The phenomenon of using the internet to gather and share health information is now mainstream. It’s time to change how we talk about it, revising and maybe even retiring certain terms. Carlos Rizo and I invite you (everyone!) to join our discussion on Wed. Sept. 1 at […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: Alex Howard, Amy Tenderich, Carlos Rizo, Clay Shirky, Cyberchondriac, e-patients, Harris Interactive, Jen McCabe, Pew Internet

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