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The goal posts of life

March 22, 2014 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

Earlier this week, John Sharp tweeted a link to a New York Times column by Abigail Zuger, MD, about the “Unworried Unwell” — people who have been told that they are very ill, but do not seem to want to do anything about it. The comments are wonderful, particularly the Reader’s Picks, including helpful tips about […]

Filed Under: ethics, hc's problem list Tagged With: #whatifhc, Abbe Don, california healthcare foundation, Health Foo, On Purpose, stroke

Hacking home health care

February 10, 2014 By Susannah Fox 57 Comments

King Arthur large baker's peel

We need to fix the “solved problems” crisis in home health care. Let me explain. At the start of Health Foo* in December, everyone introduced themselves in 6 words or less. Row by row, person by person, 100+ people talked in turn. In the back row, nearly the last to speak, Laura Baldwin stood and […]

Filed Under: end of life, key people, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: #InventHealth, Alzheimers, caregivers, Health Foo, home health care hacks, Invent Health, Moebius Syndrome

A genomic literacy spiral?

December 16, 2013 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Like many people, I’m intrigued by the 23andme drama. Here’s a quote I scribbled down at Health Foo: The data and genomics revolution is akin to the print revolution. Hundreds of years ago, peasants looked at this converted wine press and asked why we need more Bibles when nobody can read. The printing press triggered a […]

Filed Under: key people, policy issues Tagged With: 23andme, genomics, Health Foo

How I choose which conferences to attend

April 25, 2013 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Stanford Medicine X stage

I wrote this as a comment last year in response to a question about why Medicine X was so magical. I’m elevating it to a post thanks to encouragement from E-patient Dave and because I’d love to hear from other people about how they choose events to attend. 5 criteria I consider when I receive […]

Filed Under: general, public Q&A Tagged With: BJ Fogg, conferences, David Rosenman, Denise Silber, health 2.0, Health Foo, HealthCamp, Indu Subaiya, Larry Chu, Mark Scrimshire, Matthew Holt, Mayo Transform, patients included, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Stanford Medicine X, Stanford Mobile Health, Tedmed, Tim O'Reilly

What if health care…?

February 8, 2013 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Sunflowers by Stuck in Customs on Flickr

For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking friends to join them. All of a sudden we’d transformed a bare patch into something beautiful. I thought for sure […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, positive patterns, reforming hc Tagged With: #whatifhc, Health Foo

What I learned at Health Foo

July 19, 2011 By Susannah Fox 18 Comments

A crowd of men and women look at a device made of Lego

Update on Feb. 7, 2019: There are so many broken links, I’m de-linking and crossing them out but not deleting them, for posterity. They once worked! Just in case anyone is curious: my notes from Health Foo, a meeting held last weekend in Cambridge, MA. It’s long, so skim for the 9 lessons if you […]

Filed Under: general, key people, medical records, positive patterns Tagged With: Health Foo

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