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Katie McCurdy

Health data’s adolescence

March 5, 2014 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

I wrote a guest post for the Health Data Consortium — here’s the start of it: This year marks the 25th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal to create what we now call the Web, the visual, hypertext organizing system which overlays the internet. The pace of internet adoption gathered speed once people could more intuitively […]

Filed Under: internet geology, positive patterns Tagged With: Blue Button, Health Datapalooza, Katie McCurdy, Pew Research Center, ProPublica, Quantified Self, RunKeeper, Tracking for Health

The e is for engagement

October 29, 2012 By Susannah Fox 13 Comments

Painting: "Skinny Genes" by Regina Holliday for Stanford Medicine X

What if we redefined the Quantified Self movement to include everyone who keeps a pair of “skinny jeans” in their closet? What if the 85% of U.S. adults who own a cell phone understood that it’s potentially a tool for health tracking? What if everyone designing health care tools first talked with patients and caregivers […]

Filed Under: pts as teachers, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, connected health, Katie McCurdy, Pew Internet, Quantified Self, Stanford Medicine X, Tom Ferguson, tracking, Tracking for Health

Visualize This: An e-Patient’s Medical Life History

March 18, 2012 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

The following was originally Katie McCurdy’s response to the excellent, ongoing discussion about the future for self-tracking. It’s too good not to elevate to a post of its own — Susannah. ____________________________________________________________________________  Katie’s self-crafted medical timeline (Click to enlarge; see story below) There is some recent thought that self-tracking or data gathering is “a manifestation of […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, e-pts resources, featured commenters Tagged With: Katie McCurdy

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