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Wow! How? Home inventors

October 20, 2023 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Tile floor of a bathhouse

Hot springs have always been therapeutic destinations, but it was a father, desperate to relieve his child’s pain, who invented the home spa. Candido Jacuzzi, a mechanical engineer, and his wife, Inez, tried everything to help their son, who was suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Hydrotherapy helped immensely, so Candido set to work, eventually building […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, pts as teachers, Solvers Tagged With: arthritis, disability, home health care hacks, Invent Health, maker movement, Rebel Health, Solvers, Wow! How? Health

Solvers attack problems

May 31, 2022 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Axes, pliers, hammers hung on a wooden wall

Solvers identify challenges, then test and develop new concepts, code, and inventions to meet their needs. They work on a problem with a singular focus because their life – or the life of a loved one – often depends on their ability to find or invent a solution. Some Solvers openly share their designs online for […]

Filed Under: key people, peer-to-peer health care, Solvers Tagged With: Invent Health, maker movement, MIT Press, peer-to-peer healthcare, Rebel Health, Solvers

Pandemic problem-solving

April 29, 2020 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Hands feed fabric into a sewing machine

The COVID19 pandemic is forcing everyone to learn new skills on the fly.  Clinicians are teaching each other how to hotwire a ventilator to serve more than one patient.  People are 3D printing spare parts for medical equipment and learning how to sew protective masks. Parents are sharing strategies for convincing their teenagers to stay home – and […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: COVID19, maker movement, peer-to-peer healthcare

Celebrating invention and innovation

July 15, 2019 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Tools by Dorli Photography on Flickr

We are going to need all the ingenuity and help we can get to untangle and improve health and health care. Everyone should have access to the data, information, and tools they need to solve problems. That includes access to each other – peer to peer. My hope is for people to look at a […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: #InventHealth, Fda, George Hacks, Hhs, Invent Health, Lemelson Center, maker movement, prize competitions, veterans

Public Q&A: Empowering people in their relationships with clinicians

January 21, 2019 By Susannah Fox 32 Comments

Painting shows three people reaching out as they climb a giant Rolodex

In the spirit of public Q&A, I’m sharing an intriguing question I received recently from a community colleague. Check out my answer and then add your ideas and suggestions in the comments below. Do you know of any particularly good or interesting services to empower patients in their relationships with doctors, especially ones which involve […]

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, public Q&A Tagged With: #InventHealth, Clinicians, Facebook, Inspire, Invent Health, maker movement, patient activation, patientslikeme, peer-to-peer healthcare, Smart Patients, Streetwyze, Voro

If we give people access to the tools they need to solve problems, they will

March 28, 2018 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

A woman building an device by hand

One of my core beliefs is that if we give people access to the data, information, and tools they need to solve their own problems, they will. The Maker movement is an example of a group of people who embody this idea. They modify and improve the world around them. They look at a problem and not only say, […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, trends & principles Tagged With: #InventHealth, George Hacks, Invent Health, maker movement, Stanford Medicine X

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