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Access to data = access to power

October 19, 2017 By Susannah Fox 17 Comments

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Data about your health and that of your community can empower you to make — or demand — changes. When there are gaps in the record or the data don’t exist, participatory data collection empowers people to contribute to the public conversation. Access to data is access to power. On November 17-19, 2017, Data for […]

Filed Under: health data, policy issues, trends & principles Tagged With: Adverse Childhood Experience, asthma, Black Lives Matter, Blue Button, FHIR, flip teaching, Health Data, health disparities

NIH Summit on Health Disparities–Susannah Fox

December 17, 2008 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

NIH is sponsoring a summit this week, The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities. I heard about it from Mary Brophy Marcus’s article in USA Today and I found this press release online, but I haven’t seen other coverage of the event. If you spot stories about the summit in the news, on blogs, on Twitter, […]

Filed Under: demographics, hc's problem list Tagged With: digital divide, health disparities, NIH

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