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Inventing the future

June 2, 2021 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

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If you want to meet the future faster, go out to the edges of your field of vision. Find out what pioneers and rebels are doing and learn from them. Sometimes that means taking a virtual helicopter ride up to the zenith of tech development, as I did recently, watching Dario Gil, SVP and Director […]

Filed Under: health data, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, policy issues Tagged With: #wearenotwaiting, Amy Tenderich, Ben Eloff, Dario Gil, diabetes, diabetesmine, Hhs, IBM, Invent Health, KidneyX, Maja Vukovich

Building an intake valve for new ideas

May 7, 2020 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

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Imagine this: You and your colleagues know there are problems to be solved. You have resources to offer, such as funding, access to experts, and publicity. You are pretty sure there are people with great ideas out there, asking questions, defining the scope of the problems you care about, seeing things that you can’t see. […]

Filed Under: hc's problem list, key people, positive patterns Tagged With: George Hacks, Hhs, innovation, prize competitions, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Public Q&A: Acronyms, protocol, and other lessons learned from switching fields

July 29, 2019 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

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If you have switched career tracks, what lessons did you learn? What advice would you have for someone entering a new company, organization, or even a new culture? Here’s an excerpt from my 2016 interview with The Public Manager about working for the U.S. government: Most of your career was outside of the federal government. What have […]

Filed Under: public Q&A Tagged With: career advice, Hhs, innovation

Celebrating invention and innovation

July 15, 2019 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

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We are going to need all the ingenuity and help we can get to untangle and improve health and health care. Everyone should have access to the data, information, and tools they need to solve problems. That includes access to each other – peer to peer. My hope is for people to look at a […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: #InventHealth, Fda, George Hacks, Hhs, Invent Health, Lemelson Center, maker movement, prize competitions, veterans

Trust gap: Health apps and data sharing

April 29, 2019 By Susannah Fox 21 Comments

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There has been a steady drip-drip-drip of articles documenting how health apps are sharing data with third parties: Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis, by Grundy et al. (British Medical Journal, Feb. 25, 2019) You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook. Wall […]

Filed Under: demographics, health data, policy issues, trends & principles Tagged With: Fda, Health Data, Health Privacy, Hhs, Hipaa, NHS, Trustworthiness

Celebrating innovation as a problem-solving tool in government

February 25, 2019 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Empowering Internal Innovators

On January 6, 2017, I published my final post as the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. My intended audience included people I’d never met: the incoming agency leadership. I’d written a memo for the transition team, which greets and orients the new leaders, but I wanted to publish a […]

Filed Under: policy issues Tagged With: Hhs, innovation, open data

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