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Stanford Medicine X

What health care can learn from Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel

February 13, 2015 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Google is upgrading health search…again. In 2010, I was inspired by Animal Farm to write that Google saw some health sites as more equal than others. This time I turned to Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton.

Filed Under: positive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: #bcsm, #whatifhc, Apple, cystic fibrosis, Erin Moore, Google, HealthKit, Hugo Campos, IBM Watson, Iodine, multiple sclerosis, patientslikeme, Quantified Self, Rare Disease, Smart Patients, Stanford Medicine X

Share the glow

September 10, 2014 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Stanford Medicine X: Sunday morning panel

Conference tweets are a little like brunch pics on social media. Sometimes I want to reach out and say, “Shhh, it’s OK. I’m so happy that you’re happy with your eggs, but you don’t need to show them to me.” Then again, sometimes you see a pic that makes your mouth water and you think, […]

Filed Under: patient networks, positive patterns, social media Tagged With: #medxsm, Colleen Young, Meredith Gould, Pamela Ressler, Stanford Medicine X

“One person’s TMI is another person’s need-to-know.”

August 25, 2014 By Susannah Fox 15 Comments

too much information by mkorsakov on Flickr

– Meredith Gould, aptly summarizing a key discussion point for our upcoming panel, “Communicating the experience of illness in the digital age.” (TMI stands for “too much information.”) We are flipping the panel, posting ideas and sparking conversations in advance so that when we arrive at Stanford Medicine X, the on-stage event will be one more […]

Filed Under: end of life, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: #medxsm, Colleen Young, flip teaching, Meredith Gould, Pamela Ressler, peer-to-peer healthcare, Stanford Medicine X

On celebrating “small wins” and lifting up women and girls

April 25, 2014 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

Two items stopped me in my tracks this week. Sharing them here on my outboard memory so I don’t forget (and hopefully they will inspire you, too).

Filed Under: key people, positive patterns Tagged With: Rare Disease, Stanford Medicine X

Put down the clipboard and listen

February 7, 2014 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Regina Holliday Data Mote

Here are the remarks I prepared for the Feb. 6, 2014, Engage & Empower Me class at Stanford Medical School. It’s a long post, so if you’d prefer to zone out, you can watch the video. In thinking about this class, I thought a good framing question for tonight is: How does change happen? How […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, net-friendly docs, participatory research, research issues, social media Tagged With: Pete Seeger, Regina Holliday, Stanford Medicine X, The Walking Gallery, Tom Ferguson

Stanford Medicine X: Participatory research

February 7, 2014 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Brett Alder and I spoke last night at Stanford Medical School’s Engage & Empower Me class: Today is a travel day for me, back to the East Coast, so any comments posted may wait in the queue — but please let me know what you think! I’ll post more about this event when I’m home, […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, net-friendly docs, participatory research, research issues, social media Tagged With: Stanford Medicine X

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