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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

The Rise of the New Bio-citizen

March 11, 2018 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

Over the next two days, I’ll be part of a group convened by Eleonore Pauwels and Todd Kuiken to discuss barriers to citizen-driven biomedical research. If you are intrigued, read the report, “The Rise of the New Bio-citizen,” which lays out how people “are pursuing a range of activities from analyses of genomic data for […]

Filed Under: participatory research, peer-to-peer health care, policy issues, research issues Tagged With: Anna McCollister-Slipp, Eleonore Pauwels, Invent Health, Matt Might, patient activation, peer-to-peer healthcare, Rare Disease, Todd Kuiken, Tracking for Health

Mobile, Social Health at the National Library of Medicine–Susannah Fox

July 13, 2010 By Susannah Fox 18 Comments

Update: The NLM released new widgets on July 14, along with a redesigned MedlinePlus site. (Read @eagledawg‘s take on these new tools, as well as her response to this post.) Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Picture it: […]

Filed Under: demographics, trends & principles Tagged With: demographics, Forrester Research, mobile, National Library of Medicine, patient activation, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

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