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Flashback: Announcing the Invent Health Initiative

March 8, 2018 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Make Things, above a drawing of a woman holding tools

I recently signed on as an advisor to a group of George Washington University students who are organizing a medical and assistive device hackathon on March 24-25, 2018, in downtown DC. Check it out if you live nearby! In pulling together resources for them, I found the memo I sent to senior leaders across the Department […]

Filed Under: key people, policy issues Tagged With: assistive devices, Hhs, home health care hacks, Invent Health, NIH

Letter to shareholders

January 29, 2018 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Susannah Fox in the audience at a public event at the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services

For tax purposes, I recently added up all the various sources of income I’d received in 2017. It was a real hodge-podge of a year since I left my appointment at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and started working on my own projects again. This exercise brought home the lesson that […]

Filed Under: key people, positive patterns Tagged With: Cambia Health Solutions, caregivers, family, Hhs, Hope for Henry, HopeLab Foundation, Laurie Strongin, Margaret Laws, Mark Ganz, peer-to-peer healthcare, Warren Buffett

Thread by thread

November 13, 2017 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Marcel Breuer's tapestry, Floating. The tapestry’s abstract forms are carefully structured: Breuer arranged squares in varying sizes and colors in an overall square field, resulting in a well-balanced composition.

I’m honoring the contributions of my community colleagues over the years by pulling out some of their best comments and quotes. Julia M. Brennan, in response to Textiles are technology (2015): The intersection of woven dyed hand made textiles and fast evolving technologies (high tech fabric production as well as IT communications) today is a […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, featured commenters Tagged With: GSA, Hhs, maker movement, textiles

Invent Health

November 27, 2016 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

As winter sets in here in DC, I’m warming up with memories of September’s Stanford Medicine X conference. I loved putting together a keynote that highlighted how the maker movement intersects with the e-patient movement — and how private sector and government leaders can benefit. This intersection, and the lessons we are learning from it, are the latest examples […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, policy issues Tagged With: Hhs, home health care hacks, Invent Health, Stanford Medicine X

Textiles are technology

July 18, 2015 By Susannah Fox 21 Comments

Detail of a quilt square - a multicolor circle

I hung a quilt in my office yesterday. It was not sewn by any of my ancestors, but a great-great-aunt did have the good taste (and fortune) to buy it. The quilt not only brightens the room, but also brings a feminine touch to what is, yes, the office of the first woman to be Chief Technology […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder Tagged With: Hhs, home health care hacks, inspiration, maker movement, textiles

The White House Conference on Aging

July 12, 2015 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

Lawn sign in front of the White House announcing the Conference on Aging July 13

The White House Conference on Aging only happens once every ten years — and it’s happening tomorrow. The program begins at 10 a.m. ET on Monday, July 13, and will be livestreamed: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live I’ll be on a panel in the late afternoon talking about technology and the future of aging, directly after Tim Brown and Barbara Beskind discuss […]

Filed Under: demographics, key people, medical records Tagged With: Blue Button, Hhs, home health care hacks, maker movement, Medicare, Rosalie Yerkes Figge, usability, White House, White House Conference on Aging

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