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

Data-driven support for vulnerable populations

April 8, 2021 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

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How might we reduce the stigma associated mental health, which underpins global health and trauma recovery? How might we use technology to personalize services to support people, whether they are veterans, foster-care kids, returning citizens, or an elder living alone? These are two of the questions that I recently discussed with Paul Dommel, IBM’s Global […]

Filed Under: health data Tagged With: IBM, mental health, safety net, veterans

The Data Puzzle of Our Time

February 16, 2021 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

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When the pandemic hit, we needed both grassroots and industrial-strength data platforms to effectively respond to the crisis. I have written about scrappy, patient-led data innovation. Today I want to share a broader view, thanks to a conversation I recently had with Tim Paydos, Vice President & General Manager of IBM Government. (I’m proud to disclose […]

Filed Under: health data, key people Tagged With: COVID19, IBM

Learning to type (and not to typecast)

September 13, 2012 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

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“…even the most money-hungry, wannabe apolitical technologist needs to understand the role that social power plays in technology adoption.” – Alexis Madrigal writing about Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On (Hint: Sexism). Secretaries (women) knew how to use a keyboard, not executives (men), so the adoption of laptops was very […]

Filed Under: demographics Tagged With: family, IBM

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