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Well/Connected

January 11, 2019 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Peer to peer health advice: your community may really be your superpower

Dr. Joe Kvedar interviewed me for his podcast, Well/Connected, and I thought I’d share footnotes for all the resources I mentioned. Key findings from the national survey of 14- to 22-year-olds focused on digital health and social media use, sponsored by Hopelab and Well Being Trust, which took a special look at people living with […]

Filed Under: demographics, key people, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Alexandra Drane, Hhs, HopeLab Foundation, Joe Kvedar, peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, podcasts, Reframe Health, Tom Ferguson, Vicky Rideout, Well Being Trust

Get Social Health

October 9, 2018 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

A group of adults sitting around a campfire in the woods

Janet Kennedy recently hosted me on the Get Social Health podcast, which focuses on how social media is being used to help hospitals, clinicians, caregivers, and patients connect and engage. We discuss how Twitter hashtags can be like camp fires, where people gather to tell stories, and why I have empathy for people who don’t […]

Filed Under: social media, trends & principles Tagged With: Hhs, HopeLab Foundation, Mayo Clinic, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Well Being Trust

The business case for paying attention to teens

September 14, 2018 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Young woman holding smartphone with a person standing in the background

Three blockbuster reports focused on teens and technology have come out recently: Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018, by Monica Anderson and Jingjing Jiang (Pew Research Center) Digital Health Practices, Social Media Use, and Mental Well-Being Among Teens and Young Adults in the U.S., by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox (Hopelab and Well Being Trust) […]

Filed Under: demographics, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: Common Sense Media, HopeLab Foundation, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, social media, teens, Vicky Rideout, Well Being Trust

Clinical trials jump on the Cluetrain

June 22, 2018 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Man rushes toward a modern train

When the organizers of a National Cancer Institute workshop on social media and clinical trials invited me to speak, they said: We have an ethical obligation to understand social media. Social media is not just trendy. It’s a tool, an opportunity to act in an ethical way, not only to increase recruitment but to help […]

Filed Under: research issues, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: Cluetrain Manifesto, national cancer institute, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, social media

Refreshed

August 24, 2017 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

Light bulbs in the night sky - a photo by Ted Eytan

Inspired by a suggestion from Michael Seid of the C3N Project, people began tweeting their health care dreams, tagged with #whatifhc. Note: in August 2014 I flipped the order so that new ideas are on top.

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: #InventHealth, #whatifhc, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Storify, Ted Eytan

The online health revolution (it’s not too late to jump in)

April 11, 2017 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

Thanks to Joyce Lee, MD, for resurfacing this talk on Twitter today! In watching it again, I’m struck by how the data needs to be updated, but the insights don’t. Clinicians have not yet missed their chance to contribute to the online health revolution (nearly 4 years later)! The tools are going to change, but what […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: Clinicians, Pew Internet

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