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Social media as a platform for hope

November 15, 2018 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

A group of men stand in knee-deep flood waters with two kayaks. One man is in a kayak.

I’ve been thinking about how people react to a crisis. How, if we are lucky, we find ways to lend and borrow expertise to get through it. And how we lend and borrow courage. In the American South, there is something called the Cajun Navy, an ad hoc, informal group of people who use their […]

Filed Under: demographics, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Cajun Navy, demographics, flip teaching, peer-to-peer healthcare, Sara Riggare, social media

What if?

February 20, 2015 By Susannah Fox 18 Comments

Times Square

Quick explanation: I tweeted “What if this Pew Research GIF was played on a loop in Times Square?” and my friend Mike Lee made it happen (in our Photoshopped dreams). What if every conference displayed it on a screen, so that every public conversation in every industry was framed by the context of the coming […]

Filed Under: demographics Tagged With: #whatifhc, AARP, aging, Ai-jen Poo, Caring Across Generations, demographics, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Pew Research Center

Mobile, Social Health at the National Library of Medicine–Susannah Fox

July 13, 2010 By Susannah Fox 18 Comments

Update: The NLM released new widgets on July 14, along with a redesigned MedlinePlus site. (Read @eagledawg‘s take on these new tools, as well as her response to this post.) Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Picture it: […]

Filed Under: demographics, trends & principles Tagged With: demographics, Forrester Research, mobile, National Library of Medicine, patient activation, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

Frequently Asked (But Unanswered) Questions About E-patients

May 11, 2010 By Susannah Fox 41 Comments

As I’ve written before, I love questions. It’s an honor to be handed someone’s nascent idea and to help them shape it (which is what I think a question really is). But this time I’m asking for YOUR input. These excellent questions were sent to me by Liav Hertsman and his colleagues at Tel Aviv […]

Filed Under: demographics, public Q&A, research issues Tagged With: authority, demographics, doctor ratings, drug reviews, Pew Internet, Reliability, Trustworthiness, UGC

Mobile, social technology and the impact on health care–Susannah Fox

March 30, 2009 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Fard Johnmar interviewed me about internet adoption, the use of social technologies among minority groups, and my hope that e-patients’ “passion, knowledge, and ingenuity is brought forward no matter what else is planned for health care reform.”

Filed Under: demographics, news & gossip, trends & principles Tagged With: 1940, demographics, Displays, Fard, Health Care Reform, Information Revolution, Ingenuity, Internet Adoption, Knowledge, Minority Groups, Mobile Access, Mobile Technology, Mobility Group, Next Wave, Passion, pew internet project, Social Groups, Social Technology, susannah fox

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