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False boundaries in health care

May 17, 2014 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

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

Clayton Christensen gave a talk at last week’s SMARTHealthIT board meeting on, as he put it, how people think. I was absorbed by his storytelling, so only wrote down a few concepts: We make assumptions based on false correlations (and we should guard against that tendency). Data and maps are verbs, not nouns, and they never tell the […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, pt/doc co-care Tagged With: Clayton Christensen, Condition H, Flip the Clinic, learning health system, SMARTHealthIT, SMS

Mobile, social, health, care

November 15, 2013 By Susannah Fox 33 Comments

Two people holding hands at the mouth of a tunnel. Uploaded by Adam Foster on flickr

A clinical trial in Kenya confirmed that human kindness is the secret ingredient to health and mobile phones are an ideal delivery system. Well, that’s my interpretation. Here’s the gist: Taking your meds is essential to maintaining your health when you live with a chronic condition. People know this, but they need help doing it. […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, positive patterns, trends & principles Tagged With: diabetes, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, Kenya, mhealth summit, mobile, patientslikeme, peer-to-peer healthcare, Project HealthDesign, QuitNet, smoking cessation, SMS

Public Q&A: Mobile peer support for behavior change

October 28, 2013 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

In the spirit of public Q&A, I’m posting my answers to a good question: Do you know of a research team currently studying mobile peer support in the context of behavior change?

Filed Under: public Q&A Tagged With: mobile, SMS

Public Q&A: How should a youth-focused sexual health clinic incorporate social media and SMS into their work?

May 6, 2013 By Susannah Fox 11 Comments

Continuing my series of public Q&A sessions, I’ll share the following: We are working on an innovation concept paper to a local foundation and would like to explore how to better use social media and SMS at youth-focused sexual health clinic. We need to be able clearly articulate the benefits of social media and SMS […]

Filed Under: demographics, public Q&A, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: HIV/AIDS, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, sexual health, SMS, teens

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

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