• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Susannah Fox

I help people navigate health and technology.

  • Home
  • Writing
    • greatest hits
    • beauty and wonder
    • demographics
    • featured commenters
    • health data
    • key people
    • peer-to-peer health care
    • positive patterns
    • public Q&A
    • trends & principles
  • Research
    • How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Health
    • Digital Health Practices Among Teens and Young Adults: Key Findings
    • Fact sheet: teens and young adults, social media, online health resources
    • Fact sheet: differences between young women and young men in their use of social media, online health resources
    • Pew Research: Americans’ Data Worries
  • About me
    • Now
    • Curriculum vitae
  • Upcoming events

Diana Forsythe

Participatory research: it’s not everything, it’s the only thing

July 15, 2013 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

Campo Volantin footbridge in Bilbao

One of my favorite structures in Bilbao is the Campo Volantin footbridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava. I went out of my way to walk over it many times while I was visiting that beautiful city. Approaching it was a visual treat and there were always musicians playing on it, an aural treat. But once you […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, participatory research Tagged With: Bilbao, Diana Forsythe, E-Patient Dave

Patient Communities… at Walgreens?

June 17, 2010 By Susannah Fox 30 Comments

Aisle of a Walgreens drug store

UPDATE: On Feb. 18, 2015, PatientsLikeMe and Walgreens announced a partnership: “Now, anyone researching a medication or filling a prescription on Walgreens.com can access a simple snapshot that shows how their prescribed medication has impacted other patients on the therapy, including medication side effects, as reported by PatientsLikeMe members.” One more step away from “crazy” and toward “obvious” […]

Filed Under: e-pts resources, patient networks Tagged With: American Well, CureTogether, Diabetic Connect, Diana Forsythe, E-Patient Dave, Google Health, Inspire, MedHelp, Microsoft HealthVault, patientslikeme, Rite Aid, Ted Eytan, Walgreens

“HIPAA is SO 1996″

September 25, 2009 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

That’s a direct quote from Paul Tang, of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, at last week’s meeting of the Health IT Policy committee, of which he is vice chair. Dr. Tang was riffing on an e-Patient Dave quote, which I read during my testimony: I want innovation at a rate that resembles the rate of […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, medical records, policy issues Tagged With: Architectural Designs, Assumptions, Cell Phones, Debates, Decisions, Diana Forsythe, Hipaa, Infrastructure Design, innovation, Latanya Sweeney, Liquidity, National Infrastructure, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Panelists, Patient Privacy, Paul Tang, Point Of View, Policy Committee, Policy Discussions, Testimony, Vice Chair

Cyberchondria: Old Wine in New Bottles

December 2, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Just before Thanksgiving, Microsoft released a study entitled, “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search.” Ryen White and Eric Horvitz took advantage of a data set that few people have access to (log files from Microsoft’s Live Search engine and MSN Health and Fitness) as well as a survey of 515 […]

Filed Under: news & gossip, understanding statistics Tagged With: artificial intelligence, cyberchondria, Diana Forsythe, microsoft, New York Times, search

Before Footer

Don't miss a post

Enter your email address and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Recent Comments

  • Susannah Fox on Champions fast-track innovations: “Yes! Thank you for bringing out that point. Helping people to see themselves as Solvers, making space for people to…” Jun 20, 08:38
  • Kimberly Herrington on Champions fast-track innovations: “Psychological safety is everything. Champions can’t discover and unlock solvers potential nor locate a seeker in need if places and…” Jun 19, 20:35
  • Susannah Fox on Champions fast-track innovations: “Since this blog is my outboard memory I’m going to capture a few comments posted on Twitter. In response to…” Jun 15, 14:06

Footer

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Topics

  • Beauty and Wonder
  • Demographics
  • Key People
  • Participatory Research
  • Peer-to-Peer Health Care
  • Positive Patterns
  • Public Q&A
  • Trends and Principles

popular posts

  • Hack needed: Tiny pills, trembling hands
  • A taxonomy of health data
  • Mystery solved. Again.
  • Networkers pool resources

Explore

Copyright Susannah Fox © 2022 · WordPress · Log in