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Peer-to-peer Healthcare: Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious.

May 25, 2011 By Susannah Fox 103 Comments

Here’s my simple definition of peer-to-peer healthcare: Patients and caregivers know things — about themselves, about each other, about treatments — and they want to share what they know to help other people. Technology helps to surface and organize that knowledge to make it useful for as many people as possible. An idea whose time […]

Filed Under: participatory research, peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: altruism, Children's Hospital Boston, Ian Eslick, Kevin Kelly, MIT Media Lab, patientslikeme, peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Internet, Quantified Self, TuDiabetes

The Decision Tree: What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Long Life–Susannah Fox

February 14, 2010 By Susannah Fox 13 Comments

Warning: Do not read The Decision Tree unless you’re ready to make some kind of change in your life. Thomas Goetz catalogs the recent advances (and setbacks) in medicine & personal health, but also maps out the possibilities for how things could get better. He does this so convincingly that you can’t believe it’s not already taking […]

Filed Under: general Tagged With: Decision Tree, health 2.0, participatory medicine, Quantified Self

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