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How peer-to-peer health advice can help people take their meds on time (and so much more)

July 15, 2020 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Two sets of hands sort pills into a pillbox

(Yes, it’s the third post in 5 days from me, but when you’ve got cool stuff to share, why wait?) Matthew Zachary‘s podcast, Out of Patients, is one of my favorites because he brings his whole self to health care discussions, as you’ll hear in our conversation. It was a pleasure to unpack my latest […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: #health2con, Amy Tenderich, Atul Gawande, Brene Brown, InquisitHealth, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Invent Health, Matthew Zachary, patientslikeme, PillPack, podcasts, Tom Ferguson

Let’s fix the culture of stress

October 13, 2014 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

The Unmentionables panel at Health 2.0 addressed issues we don’t talk about in public but which deeply affect our health and well-being. I posted the first set of videos last week — here is the second batch. Michael Painter, of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talked about his personal perspective on stress and building a culture […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, key people Tagged With: #health2con, Alexandra Drane, health 2.0, Kent Bradley, Michael Painter, On Purpose, Unmentionables, Vic Strecher

Five years on: The Unmentionables of Health 2.0

September 20, 2014 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Three generations of hands

Five years ago, Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya bravely turned over their main stage to Alexandra Drane and a posse of thinkers, doers, and builders working on removing the real barriers to good health — all the stuff that nobody wants to talk about but which we know is at the center of people’s lives. Alex called […]

Filed Under: key people, positive patterns Tagged With: #health2con, Alexandra Drane, Esther Perel, health 2.0, Jonathan Bush, Kent Bradley, Maureen O'Connor, Michael Painter, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Unmentionables, Vic Strecher

The presence of patients changes public conversations about health care

October 4, 2010 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

I’m attending a LOT of conferences this fall and over & over I am seeing the power of having patients in the room. e-Patient Connections was a wonderful and well-documented example (in blogs, on Twitter, plus the large in-person audience) as will be Health 2.0 San Francisco. But the one that turned my head around […]

Filed Under: pts as teachers Tagged With: #epatcon, #health2con, Connected, health 2.0, Legacy, Nicholas Christakis, patients included, Schroeder Institute, smoking cessation

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