Imagine being a little kid and facing not only serious illness, but all the uncomfortable, scary treatments associated with hospitalization: blood draws, IV placements, and scans. Then you find out that you can earn prizes for every medical procedure you go through, thanks to an incentive program called Super Rewards for Super Kids. Kids love […]
Laurie Strongin
Books I read while writing Rebel Health
While writing my book, Rebel Health, I dove into the history of innovation and of the patient-led scientific revolution. I read the daring adventures of caregivers, survivors, and patients who pushed the edges of what is possible in medicine. I learned about clinicians’ and researchers’ perspectives on the changes happening in health care. And I […]
Designing Peer-to-peer Health
“How can peer to peer connection make a healthier society? Can Amazon reviews give us fresh insight into our health? Why do on-line patient communities represent an incredible untapped resource in healthcare? How can a co-designed death give us a fuller life?” Bon Ku and I explore these questions and more in Episode 59 of […]
A health & technology pioneer learns that joy, even in illness, doesn’t have an age limit
The following is a cross-post from the Atlas of Caregiving blog, which is featuring a new series of “caring conversations” with people who connect their professional experience to their caregiving experience. Susannah Fox advises companies and nonprofits on how to navigate the intersection of health and technology. She recently served as the Chief Technology Officer […]
Letter to shareholders
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 […]
Re-imagining care for hospitalized kids
On Nov. 1-2, 2017, Hope for Henry convened a diverse group of parents, kids, clinicians, designers, educators, and entrepreneurs to reimagine care for hospitalized kids. I’ll disclose that I am an advisor to Hope for Henry and helped organize the event, but I hope you’ll believe me when I say that it was, objectively, a […]
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