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Paging fans of Dr. Google

April 10, 2019 By Susannah Fox 60 Comments

Google medical degree mugs

Every few weeks someone posts some version of “Don’t confuse your Google search with my medical degree.” It appears on Facebook, on Twitter, on coffee mugs, and on signs in doctor’s offices. Today I found out that there’s a doctor who sings about it in English and in Swedish. Here’s one fabulous reply, written by Trisha […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: Google

What health care can learn from Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel

February 13, 2015 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Google is upgrading health search…again. In 2010, I was inspired by Animal Farm to write that Google saw some health sites as more equal than others. This time I turned to Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton.

Filed Under: positive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: #bcsm, #whatifhc, Apple, cystic fibrosis, Erin Moore, Google, HealthKit, Hugo Campos, IBM Watson, Iodine, multiple sclerosis, patientslikeme, Quantified Self, Rare Disease, Smart Patients, Stanford Medicine X

Keeping it real

October 20, 2012 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Two high-tech health events were held last week — an East Coast-West Coast data-driven smackdown. I chose East, but my eyes kept straying West, and I am very thankful that the organizers for both are archiving the videos online. Here are a couple of stand-outs, first from Living By Numbers in New York City: Jennifer […]

Filed Under: key people, positive patterns Tagged With: Alexandra Drane, connected health, Eliza Corp, Google, Living By Numbers, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Stanford Medicine X, Strata Rx, Wired magazine

Pandas, Lobsters, and Health Care

July 15, 2010 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

Joe Kvedar asks an excellent question in his post, The Next Phase of Connected Health: Connected Personalized Health: What are the best variables to consider when taking connected health programs from pilot to scale? He imagines a matrix with three axes: severity of chronic illness, patient readiness, and technology readiness. That makes sense to me, […]

Filed Under: general, trends & principles Tagged With: Adam Rifkin, Alexandra Carmichael, BJ Fogg, Center For Studying Health System Change, Facebook, Google, Innovator's Prescription, Joe Kvedar

Health Sites: Some Are More Equal Than Others

January 21, 2010 By Susannah Fox 91 Comments

Eric Schmidt wants to solve health care’s “platform database problem” and one critic has  countered that “computers cannot practice medicine.” One of Google’s initiatives is to guide consumers to safe, trusted health websites. Is that such a bad thing? Search result placement can make or break a site or a business model, which is where […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: Bing, comScore, Eric Schmidt, Google, Harris Interactive, Healthwise, hitwise, HONcode, librarians, Manhattan Research, Mayo Clinic, national cancer institute, NIH, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Webmd, Yahoo

The Pew Internet/Health FAQ

November 20, 2009 By Susannah Fox 11 Comments

A big part of my job, and one I love, is answering questions, mostly from reporters. Sometimes I have just the data or insight someone needs, often I recommend someone else. Here is a sample of frequently-asked questions and my current answers. Please add your questions and answers in the comments: What are you curious […]

Filed Under: public Q&A, trends & principles Tagged With: Anonymity, Baloney Detection Kit, British Medical Journal, Carl Sagan, Cdt, Center For Studying Health System Change, Daniel Solove, Diagnostic Aid, Family Caregivers, Google, Health Privacy Project, Jules Polonetsky, Medical Library Association, Pew Internet, Taxonomy

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