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Data as an engine of disruption in health care

October 22, 2018 By Susannah Fox 32 Comments

Medical records closes at 5pm on Friday by Regina Holliday

Continuing my practice of “flipping” an event — posting what I hope to get across in advance in order to jump start the conversation — here is a preview for a panel set to take place on Oct. 23. My co-panelists (Iya Khalil, Deborah Kilpatrick, and Don Rucker) and I will talk about data as an engine […]

Filed Under: health data, medical records, policy issues Tagged With: Anil Sethi, Blue Button, Deborah Kilpatrick, Deven McGraw, Don Rucker, EHR, electronic medical record, FasterCures, flip teaching, Harlan Krumholz, Hugo Campos, Iya Khalil, Lisa Bari, Lucia Savage, Milken Institute, Open Notes

Why people participate in clinical trials: altruism and access

October 30, 2017 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Painting of a red landscape with people climbing a dark arrow toward the sky

I’m honoring the contributions of my community colleagues over the years by pulling out some of their best comments and quotes.  Rahlyn Gossen, in response to Peer-to-peer healthcare: Crazy, crazy, crazy, obvious (2011):  By far the biggest hurdle to clinical trials recruitment is awareness. The public is generally not aware and doctors are not informing […]

Filed Under: featured commenters Tagged With: altruism, Clinical Trial Data, Clinical Trials, EHR, Regina Holliday

Health Geek Radio: Adam Bosworth’s Straight Talk Express

May 4, 2010 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Adam Bosworth of Keas delivered quite a lecture yesterday at the Alliance for Healthcare Foundation. He talks about how Americans don’t really like data (but they need it), why “frugal innovation” is the best path for start-ups, how e-Patient Dave shook up the EHR world, why health privacy legislation would kill patient-driven research, and why […]

Filed Under: health data, medical records, policy issues Tagged With: Adam Bosworth, E-Patient Dave, EHR, Google Health, Health Data, Health Privacy, Keas

Technology as a means, not an end–Susannah Fox

February 14, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

I was part of a brainstorming session yesterday about the role of technology in health and health care, in preparation for a June 2008 Ix conference here in DC. Here is one of the quotes I captured from another participant: Technology is always framed as an end and it is not. It is a means. […]

Filed Under: policy issues Tagged With: EHR, EMR, technology

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