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Decision Tree

Health Month, the game–Susannah Fox

July 1, 2011 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

I admit it: I’m not a gamer. But I am competitive. Plus I love micro-fitness challenges and I’ve read (and believe the lessons of) The Decision Tree. So when Jen McCabe described Health Month, I was intrigued. It’s a game in which you choose the rules for behavior change — from their list or of […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: Awesomeness, Behavior Change, Cut Bait, Decision Tree, Doing Push Ups, Fitness Challenges, Gamer, Greens, Habit, health games, Health Ins, Health Month, Heroism, Mccabe, Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner, Oven Timer, Running Out Of Life, Superhero, Supply Co, Ups, Vow

Patient Communities: Which Way Forward?–Susannah Fox

August 9, 2010 By Susannah Fox 21 Comments

If you were designing a disease treatment system from scratch, bringing together clinicians, patients, researchers, and advocates, what platform would you use to take advantage of the community created by this umbrella group? This isn’t just some health geek SimCity exercise. I was actually asked that question recently, by people who have lined up the […]

Filed Under: patient networks Tagged With: ACOR, cancer, Decision Tree, health 2.0, imedo, iWantGreatCare, paginemediche.it, Paris, participatory medicine, patientslikeme, Pew Internet, The Moment

The Decision Tree: How Better Health Can Scale

May 1, 2010 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

“The internet was created to connect people and groups. The first step is to share stories. The next step is to share quantitative observations.” “Health care has been locked up in regulatory amber. HIPAA was passed in 1996, almost perfectly timed to cut off health care from the internet. But there is a loophole: to […]

Filed Under: health data, patient networks, policy issues, positive patterns Tagged With: 23andme, chronic disease, CureTogether, Decision Tree, digital divide, Genetics, getupandmove, Health Data, Hipaa, patientslikeme, Pew Research Center, susannah fox, Thomas Goetz

The Decision Tree: What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Long Life–Susannah Fox

February 14, 2010 By Susannah Fox 33 Comments

Warning: Do not read The Decision Tree unless you’re ready to make some kind of change in your life. Thomas Goetz catalogs the recent advances (and setbacks) in medicine & personal health, but also maps out the possibilities for how things could get better. He does this so convincingly that you can’t believe it’s not already taking […]

Filed Under: general Tagged With: Decision Tree, health 2.0, participatory medicine, Quantified Self

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