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Blue Button’s North Star

August 23, 2018 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Red Stop sign with stickers, so it reads: DON'T STOP BELIEVING

Blue Button is a Trojan horse for culture change in the American health care system. It places power in the hands of patients and whets the data appetites of millions of Americans and the companies who would like to serve them. If you’ve never heard of Blue Button, here’s a quick overview: The federal government […]

Filed Under: health data, medical records, policy issues, positive patterns Tagged With: Blue Button, FHIR, Hhs, Mark Scrimshire, Markle Foundation, Medicare, VA, veterans, White House

How I choose which conferences to attend

April 25, 2013 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Stanford Medicine X stage

I wrote this as a comment last year in response to a question about why Medicine X was so magical. I’m elevating it to a post thanks to encouragement from E-patient Dave and because I’d love to hear from other people about how they choose events to attend. 5 criteria I consider when I receive […]

Filed Under: general, public Q&A Tagged With: BJ Fogg, conferences, David Rosenman, Denise Silber, health 2.0, Health Foo, HealthCamp, Indu Subaiya, Larry Chu, Mark Scrimshire, Matthew Holt, Mayo Transform, patients included, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Stanford Medicine X, Stanford Mobile Health, Tedmed, Tim O'Reilly

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