I was part of a brainstorming session yesterday about the role of technology in health and health care, in preparation for a June 2008 Ix conference here in DC. Here is one of the quotes I captured from another participant: Technology is always framed as an end and it is not. It is a means. […]
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Go online. Not too much. Mostly…?–Susannah Fox
Michael Pollan’s answer to diet angst is to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Is there an equivalent maxim for information angst? If not, does someone out there want to make one up? Because a new study published in Cancer argues that e-patients can take a common-sense approach to online health research and do […]
Harnessing Openness–Susannah Fox
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is an independent, non-partisan research organization with a trustee list dominated by corporations (not that there’s anything wrong with that — my own funders, the Pew Charitable Trusts, are also listed on the CED site). CED recently released an engaging report entitled, “Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care” […]
Consumer Resources–Susannah Fox
As we continue our discussion of the definitions of 2.0 and user-generated content (UGC), I thought I’d highlight some other buzzwords and link to a few consumer-oriented resources. I still trust librarians to help me judge information sources, so my first set of links are to articles that first appeared in The Journal of the […]
Medscape Editorial–Susannah Fox
Check out this video editorial by Dr. Danny Sands entitled “ePatients: Engaging Patients in Their Own Care.” (Note: sign-up is free for site access.)
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