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How peer-to-peer health advice can help people take their meds on time (and so much more)

July 15, 2020 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Two sets of hands sort pills into a pillbox

(Yes, it’s the third post in 5 days from me, but when you’ve got cool stuff to share, why wait?) Matthew Zachary‘s podcast, Out of Patients, is one of my favorites because he brings his whole self to health care discussions, as you’ll hear in our conversation. It was a pleasure to unpack my latest […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: #health2con, Amy Tenderich, Atul Gawande, Brene Brown, InquisitHealth, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Invent Health, Matthew Zachary, patientslikeme, PillPack, podcasts, Tom Ferguson

Is there a generational tech divide in medicine? And is that the main problem?

November 11, 2013 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

Jay Parkinson recently wrote a post responding to a question raised by Atul Gawande: Can technology be a change agent for health care? Jay’s answer focused on the generational tech divide in medicine today. One quote: “Many of the most influential doctors practicing medicine today have an antagonistic relationship with computers. Change will only come in […]

Filed Under: demographics, hc's problem list, net-friendly docs Tagged With: Atul Gawande, family, Jay Parkinson, Manhattan Research, Pew Research Center, Rosalie Yerkes Figge

Peer-to-peer health care is a slow idea that will change the world

August 3, 2013 By Susannah Fox 63 Comments

2018 update: Watch a 10-minute video that captures the essentials of peer health advice. Someone recently asked me to name the most exciting innovation in health care today. I think he was hoping for a sexy technology tip, like an app that’s catching fire in the expert patient communities I follow. Nope. I’ve said it […]

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, positive patterns Tagged With: Atul Gawande, C3N Project, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Smart Patients

Never assume that what you are seeing or experiencing is everyone else’s reality.

April 15, 2013 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

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

Atul Gawande can shine a bright spotlight, even with just a few tweets. On Saturday he linked to an article about new social media guidelines for physicians which states: Aside from not “friending” patients [on Facebook], the guidelines also recommend the following to physicians: • Don’t use text messaging for medical interactions, even with established […]

Filed Under: key people, net-friendly docs Tagged With: American Medical Association, Atul Gawande, e-patients, Rosalie Yerkes Figge, Tom Ferguson

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