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Mobile Health

Is there hope for SMS health alerts?

December 17, 2012 By Susannah Fox 66 Comments

Pew Internet: Demographics of cell- and smartphone ownership, Sept 2012

Richard Fury, MD, of Kaiser Permanente emailed me recently, asking: “Is there any hope for SMS health alerts when patients are due for preventive care?  As you know, patients want this, we want to provide this, but without symptomatic incentives adoption is poor. Thoughts?” I think there is hope for SMS health alerts targeting people […]

Filed Under: public Q&A, trends & principles Tagged With: connected health, mobile, Mobile Health, SMS

Don’t immediately believe the mhealth hype – Dave Clifford

November 15, 2012 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

Don't believe the hype machine

Carrying on the tradition of taking an epic comment and publishing it as a stand-alone post, I’m very happy to feature Dave Clifford’s take on the new mobile health data: I care very deeply about numbers and measuring what people are doing in reality versus expectations. I believe that polling is a useful quantitative tool […]

Filed Under: featured commenters, trends & principles Tagged With: Dave Clifford, mobile, Mobile Health

Health, Technology, and Communities of Color

February 16, 2012 By Susannah Fox 20 Comments

Serendipity brought me two opportunities this week to present Pew Internet’s data on communities of color and young people, particularly as it relates to health. On Wednesday I was a guest of the Federal HIV/AIDS Web Council and on Thursday I spoke at a meeting convened by CommonHealth ACTION. I’ll share some insights I picked […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, HIV/AIDS, Mobile Health, Natalie Burke, Pew Internet

Map the frontier. Bring data. (More coming soon!)–Susannah Fox

May 11, 2011 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

The Pew Internet Project and California HealthCare Foundation will released our latest report on the internet’s impact on health and health care tonight at midnight (Eastern U.S. time). It is titled, “The Social Life of Health Information, 2011” (and for those following closely, that is a hint that we are updating trends we first measured […]

Filed Under: general, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, Mobile Health, Pew Internet

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