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Sneak preview: Tracking for Health

January 25, 2013 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

This interview was recorded at Stanford Medicine X where I gave a sneak preview talk about the report Pew Internet is releasing on Monday, “Tracking for Health.” Joyce Ho is a fabulous interviewer — as a med student, she definitely adds her own insights to the conversation about our findings.

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: Stanford Medicine X, tracking

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

Unpacking self-tracking

June 7, 2012 By Susannah Fox 20 Comments

One of the “top tweets” of this week’s Health Datapalooza was one I dashed off on my way to the event: 1 in 4 U.S. internet users track their own health data online – @pewinternet pewrsr.ch/khtiMB #healthdata — SusannahFox (@SusannahFox) June 5, 2012 It was great to see how this research tidbit was treated like […]

Filed Under: research issues Tagged With: Health Datapalooza, Quantified Self, self-tracking, tracking, Tracking for Health

What’s the future for self-tracking?

March 9, 2012 By Susannah Fox 38 Comments

Stephen Wolfram’s essay, The Personal Analytics of My Life, begins: “One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves.” A Pew Internet survey suggests we have a long way to go: a September 2010 survey found that 27% of internet users age 18+ track their own health data online. There […]

Filed Under: health data, research issues, trends & principles Tagged With: Analytics, Brigid Schulte, Health Data, Internet Survey, Matthew Cornell, Pew Internet, Quantified Self, Stephen Wolfram, tracking

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