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President’s Cancer Panel: Input, Please–Susannah Fox

November 30, 2010 By Susannah Fox 36 Comments

What evidence would you bring to convince cancer researchers and policy makers to pay attention to how the internet is changing health and health care? That’s my challenge for the Dec. 14 meeting of the President’s Cancer Panel, “The Future of Cancer Research: Accelerating Scientific Innovation” (PDF of the agenda).

Filed Under: policy issues, pts as teachers, research issues Tagged With: ACOR, Andrew Schorr, Bill Claxton, cancer, Center For Studying Health System Change, Chordoma, Erin McCartney, hints, Institute Of Medicine, national cancer institute, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, patientslikeme, Pew Internet

All Together Now: The Internet Does Not Replace Health Professionals–Susannah Fox

March 4, 2010 By Susannah Fox 40 Comments

The March 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine includes a letter from Brad Hesse, Richard Moser, and Lila Rutten, three National Cancer Institute researchers whose work is a continual inspiration to me. Their analysis of data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) shows that the vast majority of Americans, “despite […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: hints, national cancer institute, Nejm, Pew Internet

E-health Reality Check–Susannah Fox

January 14, 2008 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Press coverage of the Pew Internet Project’s recent report, “Information Searches That Solve Problems,” focused on how “libraries still matter” especially among young people. One aspect that I think merits further attention is how people interact with various information sources when they are dealing with a serious illness or health concern.

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: cancer, doctors, e-patient, hints, librarians, survey

My Idea of Great: Health Data Geeks Convention–Susannah Fox

May 22, 2007 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

I was lucky enough to be invited to a “Data Users Conference” sponsored by the Health Information National Trends Survey/National Cancer Institute, which really should have been called Health Data Geeks Unite! If you have a moment, I highly recommend browsing through some of the presentations, particularly the following: David Stinchcomb showed how isopleth maps […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: data, hints, national cancer institute, survey

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