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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 33 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 120 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, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Webmd, Yahoo

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

February 12, 2008 By Susannah Fox 15 Comments

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

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

E-health Reality Check–Susannah Fox

January 14, 2008 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

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

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