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Tracking the trackers

May 13, 2020 By Susannah Fox 25 Comments

In Dark Times Shine Your Light Brighter

UPDATE: On August 12, I’ll moderate a discussion about prioritizing patient engagement and inclusion of patient-generated COVID-19 data in clinical registries. It is being offered free and open to the public. Read a preview post and register here for the webinar. Every day I see a new example of a survey or other tool to […]

Filed Under: health data, participatory research, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, research issues Tagged With: 23andme, Ancestry, Body Politic, COVID19, cystic fibrosis, Health Data, Open Humans Foundation, patient registries, patientslikeme, Webmd

Health Sites: Some Are More Equal Than Others

January 21, 2010 By Susannah Fox 91 Comments

Eric Schmidt wants to solve health care’s “platform database problem” and one critic has  countered that “computers cannot practice medicine.” One of Google’s initiatives is to guide consumers to safe, trusted health websites. Is that such a bad thing? Search result placement can make or break a site or a business model, which is where […]

Filed Under: trends & principles Tagged With: Bing, comScore, Eric Schmidt, Google, Harris Interactive, Healthwise, hitwise, HONcode, librarians, Manhattan Research, Mayo Clinic, national cancer institute, NIH, North Carolina, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Webmd, Yahoo

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