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How would you like your data today?

December 6, 2013 By Susannah Fox 15 Comments

Do you like them here or there? A page from Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss

After a very full year of writing reports, giving speeches, and number-checking infographics, I’m left wondering: What’s the most effective way to deliver insights? How can I better serve you? To paraphrase Dr. Seuss: Do you like the data in a table? In a tweet? In a speech? Do you like the numbers in a […]

Filed Under: demographics, research issues, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

How do we know that social media is important to health care?

October 21, 2013 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Update: the videos are up — thanks, @EinsteinMed! On Friday, I spoke at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, along with Kevin Pho, MD. During a planning call, the symposium organizers had shared results from a faculty survey: Fully two-thirds do not use social tools on a regular basis. Asking them, therefore, to spend a half-day […]

Filed Under: demographics, net-friendly docs, patient networks, pt/doc co-care, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, KevinMD, medical education, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

Data collection and connection

October 7, 2013 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

A crowd of people reflected in a mirror

Health 2.0 featured a panel devoted to the “new environment for better health care decisions.” I shared some new findings and I’d love to hear what you think: [Update: the video of my talk is now online.] Where I work, at the Pew Research Center, we use data to hold up a mirror to society so you […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, health 2.0, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Tracking for Health

Chicken soup for decision-makers

September 13, 2013 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Ceramic casserole with a shino glaze by Marcia Halperin

Half of all health searches in the U.S. are done on behalf of someone else. That’s been a core finding of the Pew Research Center’s health portfolio since 2000. We have called information the new chicken soup of the digital age, brought to the bedside by people who want to help. Now, in the social […]

Filed Under: end of life, hc's problem list, shared decision making Tagged With: hospice, palliative care, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, rehab

Peer-to-peer health care is a slow idea that will change the world

August 3, 2013 By Susannah Fox 63 Comments

2018 update: Watch a 10-minute video that captures the essentials of peer health advice. Someone recently asked me to name the most exciting innovation in health care today. I think he was hoping for a sexy technology tip, like an app that’s catching fire in the expert patient communities I follow. Nope. I’ve said it […]

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, positive patterns Tagged With: Atul Gawande, C3N Project, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Smart Patients

Love made visible

June 23, 2013 By Susannah Fox 31 Comments

Terra cotta soldiers, photograph by O. Louis Mazzatenta

As an anthropology major in college, I was required to take at least one course in archaeology. We studied burial mounds and earthworks (from afar, no digging) and it reminded me of Geology 101, when I learned how scientists spot patterns in the physical landscape. Geologists look for clues to the Earth’s past, and possible […]

Filed Under: demographics, end of life Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, caregivers, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

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