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Just in time someone like me

July 8, 2014 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

Teens want just in time someone like me

In 2005, I took a call from someone who worked at Planned Parenthood. He wanted the conversation to be off the record, so I didn’t even write down his name, which is a shame because that conversation changed the direction of my career. The caller had seen media coverage of Pew Internet’s health research, probably […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Internet, sexual health, Tom Ferguson

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

Never assume that what you are seeing or experiencing is everyone else’s reality.

April 15, 2013 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

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

Atul Gawande can shine a bright spotlight, even with just a few tweets. On Saturday he linked to an article about new social media guidelines for physicians which states: Aside from not “friending” patients [on Facebook], the guidelines also recommend the following to physicians: • Don’t use text messaging for medical interactions, even with established […]

Filed Under: key people, net-friendly docs Tagged With: American Medical Association, Atul Gawande, e-patients, Rosalie Yerkes Figge, Tom Ferguson

The e is for engagement

October 29, 2012 By Susannah Fox 13 Comments

Painting: "Skinny Genes" by Regina Holliday for Stanford Medicine X

What if we redefined the Quantified Self movement to include everyone who keeps a pair of “skinny jeans” in their closet? What if the 85% of U.S. adults who own a cell phone understood that it’s potentially a tool for health tracking? What if everyone designing health care tools first talked with patients and caregivers […]

Filed Under: pts as teachers, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, connected health, Katie McCurdy, Pew Internet, Quantified Self, Stanford Medicine X, Tom Ferguson, tracking, Tracking for Health

Healthcare Out Loud

February 25, 2011 By Susannah Fox 44 Comments

Last fall, at the e-Patient Connections conference, I gave a sneak preview of some survey results which are set to be have been released on the Pew Internet site on Monday, Feb. 28. I hoped to spark new ideas for a savvy, plugged-in audience and I ended up surprising even myself with some of what […]

Filed Under: patient networks Tagged With: #epatcon, ACOR, braintalk, E-Patient Dave, Healthcentral, patientslikeme, Patti Brennan, Pew Internet, Regina Holliday, Tom Ferguson

Participatory medicine and health data rights on NPR

November 16, 2009 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

NPR’s Morning Edition story, “Patients Turn to Online Buddies for Help Healing,” combined research and real-life examples, participatory medicine and health data rights. Much of what I said during my interview with Joseph Shapiro is based on what I’ve written and read here on e-patients.net, so, first, thank you. I’ve already started answering questions on […]

Filed Under: general, health data Tagged With: Answering Questions, Assertions, Buddies, Case Mix, Collective Decisions, Health Care Decisions, Health Care Revolution, Health Data, health information, Health Professionals, Health Searches, Health Systems, John Horrigan, Joseph Shapiro, Medicine, Medicine And Health, Mediums, npr, Offline Sources, Pareto Principle, Partnership, Person Accounts, Pew Research Center, Real Health, Tom Ferguson, Twitter, Walks Of Life

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