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Patient-led research is a key element of pandemic response

August 14, 2020 By Susannah Fox 11 Comments

Puzzle with missing pieces

On August 12, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies hosted the fifth webinar in their series focused on COVID-19 and clinical registries. If you missed it — or want to watch it again — here’s the video: Here, also, are the panelists’ slides and a collection of tweets posted in advance of and during the […]

Filed Under: health data, participatory research, patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, research issues Tagged With: Body Politic, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, COVID19, Emily Sirotich, Gary Wolf, Gina Assaf, Hannah Davis, Helen Burstin, LongCovid, patient registries, Quantified Self, rheumatoid arthritis

Zooming into each other’s homes

August 3, 2020 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

A student looks at a laptop screen while sitting up in bed with a cat and dog nearby

My friend and community colleague Margie Morris wrote a wonderful article for a clinical neuroscience journal that, with her permission, I am excerpting for a series of posts (if you missed it, here’s the first one). She writes: To meaningfully connect, we will need to do more than show up online. Now, more than ever, […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: COVID19, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Margaret Morris, Pew Research Center

Advancing clinical registries to support pandemic treatment and response

July 27, 2020 By Susannah Fox 23 Comments

Close up of fuzzy dandelion seeds

The biomedical research model has a blind spot. People living with a condition or disease are traditionally seen as passive sources of data, not active participants in the research. We as a society miss out on promising avenues of inquiry. It’s time to widen our lens. On August 12, I’ll moderate a discussion about how […]

Filed Under: health data, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Body Politic, British Medical Journal, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, COVID19, Emily Sirotich, flip teaching, Gary Wolf, Gina Assaf, Hannah Davis, Helen Burstin, LongCovid, patient registries, Quantified Self, rheumatoid arthritis

How peer-to-peer health advice can help people take their meds on time (and so much more)

July 15, 2020 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Two sets of hands sort pills into a pillbox

(Yes, it’s the third post in 5 days from me, but when you’ve got cool stuff to share, why wait?) Matthew Zachary‘s podcast, Out of Patients, is one of my favorites because he brings his whole self to health care discussions, as you’ll hear in our conversation. It was a pleasure to unpack my latest […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: #health2con, Amy Tenderich, Atul Gawande, Brene Brown, InquisitHealth, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Invent Health, Matthew Zachary, patientslikeme, PillPack, podcasts, Tom Ferguson

Accelerating real-time electronic data capture for COVID-19 tracking and response

July 13, 2020 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

UC Health line graph showing COVID19 cases across their hospital system in July 2020

The Council of Medical Specialty Societies and the Association of Academic Medical Colleges, with support from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, are hosting a webinar series focused on COVID-19 patient registries. They are being offered free and open to the public. The second in the series took place on July 8 and addressed the […]

Filed Under: health data Tagged With: Andrew Ip, Atul Butte, Body Politic, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, COVID19, Jessie Tenenbaum, North Carolina, patient registries, Subha Madhavan, Tellen Bennett

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