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Wow! How? Public Access to Research

November 10, 2023 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Handwritten memo authorizing the name Grateful Med for the U.S. National Library of Medicine's online searchable database of biomedical citations and abstracts

This is a cross-post from my LinkedIn newsletter. Feel free to join the conversation there or post your thoughts in the comments below. The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed indexes over 36 million biomedical research abstracts – a searchable trove of evidence that has been available to the public since 1996. It is both a national […]

Filed Under: Champions, key people, policy issues Tagged With: Champions, librarians, National Library of Medicine, pubmed, Rebel Health, Wow! How? Health

An unexpected gift

October 25, 2013 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

I was 3 when my maternal grandfather died, 40 years ago today. My only memory of Frank H.J. Figge is of him making me laugh. Thanks to M.J. Tooey, my community colleague at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, I learned that his “happy chuckle” was a hallmark, along with his “true research brain.” My mother, […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, key people Tagged With: Barbara Figge Fox, family, librarians, MJ Tooey, University of Maryland

Alpha Geeks in Health Care

July 6, 2011 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Here’s how tech guru Tim O’Reilly describes his work: So often, signs of the future are all around us, but it isn’t until much later that most of the world realizes their significance. Meanwhile, the innovators who are busy inventing that future live in a world of their own. They see and act on premises […]

Filed Under: patient networks, trends & principles Tagged With: Alpha Geek, Clinician, health care, Health Information Exchange, Innovators, librarians, Market Opportunities, Public Health, Public Health Workers, Rare Disease, rare diseases, Technology Gaps

Health Sites: Some Are More Equal Than Others

January 21, 2010 By Susannah Fox 91 Comments

Eric Schmidt wants to solve health care’s “platform database problem” and one critic has  countered that “computers cannot practice medicine.” One of Google’s initiatives is to guide consumers to safe, trusted health websites. Is that such a bad thing? Search result placement can make or break a site or a business model, which is where […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: Bing, comScore, Eric Schmidt, Google, Harris Interactive, Healthwise, hitwise, HONcode, librarians, Manhattan Research, Mayo Clinic, national cancer institute, NIH, North Carolina, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Webmd, Yahoo

Go online. Not too much. Mostly…?–Susannah Fox

February 12, 2008 By Susannah Fox 15 Comments

Michael Pollan’s answer to diet angst is to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Is there an equivalent maxim for information angst? If not, does someone out there want to make one up? Because a new study published in Cancer argues that e-patients can take a common-sense approach to online health research and do […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: ama, cancer, e-patients, epatients, jama, journal, librarians, patients, quality

Consumer Resources–Susannah Fox

February 6, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

As we continue our discussion of the definitions of 2.0 and user-generated content (UGC), I thought I’d highlight some other buzzwords and link to a few consumer-oriented resources. I still trust librarians to help me judge information sources, so my first set of links are to articles that first appeared in The Journal of the […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: e-patients, healia, health, librarians, medstory, pubmed, search

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