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Building the evidence base for peer health advice

March 4, 2019 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Stone carving of a hand holding old fashioned scales

Imagine an intervention that produces results like these: One-third of those living with chronic conditions are now more likely to take necessary medications. The risk of admission to a neonatal ICU during first year of life reduced by 63%. People with with poorly-controlled diabetes were able to achieve a 1.1-point reduction in their HbA1c. Each […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, positive patterns Tagged With: Centering Healthcare Institute, Centering Pregnancy, Chronic Conditions, diabetes, flip teaching, patientslikeme, peer-to-peer healthcare, Society of Behavioral Medicine

The New York Times: “Sometimes Patients Simply Need Other Patients”

July 9, 2018 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Screen Shot of the NYT Upshot column on July 9 2018

Aaron E. Carroll and Austin Frankt co-wrote an excellent article about peer-to-peer health care in The New York Times today. An excerpt: In an ideal world, when we are faced with a new health problem, a clinician is available to sit down and address all our questions and anxieties about the condition and its treatment. […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: breast cancer, diabetes, life-threatening illness, New York Times, Peer To Peer, peer-to-peer healthcare

What I’m reading, listening to, admiring…

January 10, 2015 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Susannah at the library

I hunkered down at the library this week, working on a couple of long-term projects. I kept one eye on Twitter, though, as I always do, and wanted to share what distracted — and inspired — me this week: Radiolab: Worth — what would you pay for another month of life? How about a year? […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, maternity, positive patterns, social media Tagged With: Amy Romano, Cluetrain Manifesto, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, diabetesmine, Facebook, Kerri Sparling, may I suggest, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Wendy Sue Swanson

Imagining better outcomes for T1D with #MakeHealth

December 18, 2014 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Glucose meter displaying the number 85

This post originally appeared on Diabetes Mine. Forty-five makers, thinkers, designers and doers gathered in Cincinnati for a two-day meeting to kick off “Phase Zero” of a new initiative to imagine a new system of care for people living with Type 1 diabetes (T1D). The best way I can describe the group is that everyone […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, net-friendly docs, pt/doc co-care, pts as teachers Tagged With: #makehealth, C3N Project, diabetes, diabetesmine, Joyce Lee, T1D Exchange, Type 1 Diabetes

Secret questions, naked truths

April 6, 2014 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

Google Poetics: I don't know how to...

My prepared remarks for the Quantified Self Public Health Symposium (here are some notes from the event): You know when you type the first few words of a query and Google suggests the rest based on what thousands of other people have typed next? There’s a Twitter account called Google Poetics that takes those suggested phrases […]

Filed Under: demographics, key people, pt/doc co-care, research issues Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, caregivers, chronic disease, Chronic Diseases, diabetes, Google Poetics, Kim Vlasic, Pew Research Center, QSPH, Quantified Self, tracking, Tracking for Health

A field guide to The Diagnosis Difference

November 26, 2013 By Susannah Fox 67 Comments

The Pew Research Center released a report today on people living with chronic conditions: The Diagnosis Difference. Policy makers, patient advocates, entrepreneurs, investors, clinicians — all health care stakeholders — can use the data to map the current landscape. There are still barren patches, where people remain offline and cut off from the resources and […]

Filed Under: demographics, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, Heart Conditions, High Blood Pressure, Lung Conditions, Pew Research Center, Rare Disease, rheumatoid arthritis

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