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White House

Blue Button’s North Star

August 23, 2018 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Red Stop sign with stickers, so it reads: DON'T STOP BELIEVING

Blue Button is a Trojan horse for culture change in the American health care system. It places power in the hands of patients and whets the data appetites of millions of Americans and the companies who would like to serve them. If you’ve never heard of Blue Button, here’s a quick overview: The federal government […]

Filed Under: health data, medical records, policy issues, positive patterns Tagged With: Blue Button, FHIR, Hhs, Mark Scrimshire, Markle Foundation, Medicare, VA, veterans, White House

The White House Conference on Aging

July 12, 2015 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

Lawn sign in front of the White House announcing the Conference on Aging July 13

The White House Conference on Aging only happens once every ten years — and it’s happening tomorrow. The program begins at 10 a.m. ET on Monday, July 13, and will be livestreamed: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live I’ll be on a panel in the late afternoon talking about technology and the future of aging, directly after Tim Brown and Barbara Beskind discuss […]

Filed Under: demographics, key people, medical records Tagged With: Blue Button, Hhs, home health care hacks, maker movement, Medicare, Rosalie Yerkes Figge, usability, White House, White House Conference on Aging

What if information spread more quickly than a virus?

March 24, 2011 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

On March 11, the White House hosted an event to mark National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The event was livestreamed from whitehouse.gov and is archived on YouTube: I have written before about the unique nature of conferences concerning sexually-transmitted infections, but I didn’t expect to hear the same frank talk at a White […]

Filed Under: policy issues, positive patterns Tagged With: HIV/AIDS, Pew Internet, STIs, White House

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