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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

The Social Life of Health Information–Susannah Fox

June 10, 2009 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

The Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation report, The Social Life of Health Information, is packed with new findings from a survey of 2,253 adults, including 502 cell-phone interviews, conducted in either English or Spanish. We spent a bundle of money on making this a random sample of the U.S. population, but guess who got a call […]

Filed Under: demographics, trends & principles Tagged With: California Healthcare, california healthcare foundation, Cheat Sheet, Comfort Food, E-Patient Dave, Foundation Report, Hat Tip, Health Info, health information, Healthcare Report, Information Gathering, information therapy, Interview In The Mix, Interviewer, John Seely Brown, Medical Issues, Mobile Internet, Paul Duguid, Pew Internet, Phone Interviews, Random Sample, Survey Questions, Tom Ferguson

Visiting hours

January 3, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal traces the history of visiting patients in hospitals in England, from the 18th century to the present. Sadia Ismail and Graham Mulley paint quite a picture in their opening lines: From 2 pm they gather at the entrance to the ward, occasionally drifting through […]

Filed Under: pt/doc co-care Tagged With: care, caregivers, clinic, hospitals, patients, Tom Ferguson

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