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 […]
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Open Access to Publicly-Funded Research: Let Them Eat Cake?
Update on 12/3/14: Nature re-ignited the access debate when they announced that they will make all their articles “free to view” (but if you read the fine print: it makes the “dark social” practice of #icanhazpdf and other access work-arounds illegal). To catch up, see my Storify: Five-alarm fire in Open Access Land. Marketplace aired […]
Stress: the New Normal for Cancer Patients?–Susannah Fox
Deborah Bell is actively involved in cancer advocacy and manages several online communities for cancer patients, their families, and their friends, having been an ACOR listowner for 11 years, and a listmember for 13. She contributed the following essay: I know a 15-year breast cancer survivor who was just diagnosed with a recurrence in the […]
Mobile could be a game-changer – but only for those who get in the game.–Susannah Fox
Original title: Health 2.0 meets Ix: Susannah Fox’s presentation Here are my prepared remarks for the “Navigating the New Health Care Delivery System” segment at the Health 2.0 meets Ix conference (with the lines I added to respond to other themes brought out during the conference in bold) “Is Health IT the answer? Only if […]
Participatory Democracy, Participatory Medicine–Susannah Fox
A sneak preview of my remarks at the “Health 2.0 meets Information Therapy” conference appears on the IxCenterBlog: Participatory Democracy, Participatory Medicine. A good discussion of the issues has already begun there and on The Health Care Blog.
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