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Disconnectedness kills, connectedness heals

March 23, 2015 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

If you crave inspiration, tune in to the Robert Wood Johnson’s Pioneering Ideas podcast by subscribing to the iTunes feed or listening on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rwjf-podcasts/final-cut-episode-8/s-q4foj

Filed Under: key people, research issues, trends & principles Tagged With: #RWJFpodcast, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Speak up: The network is our superpower

March 13, 2015 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

I have a new post up on Medium, illustrated with this gem from a 2012 post: An excerpt: We can’t let misinformation—or worse—go by without comment. I think it’s time for more people to speak up in health care. More pediatricians should express their measles outrage. More people should chronicle the reality of living with chronic conditions.

Filed Under: ethics, research issues, trends & principles, understanding statistics Tagged With: Pew Research Center, Stanford Medicine X

Rare Disease Day

February 28, 2015 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

NIH atrium by Jason Levine

Today is Rare Disease Day, when we honor the millions of people who teach us what it’s like to live at the edges of the known world of medicine.

Filed Under: positive patterns, pt/doc co-care Tagged With: Alpha Geek, Amy Marcus, Francis Collins, NIH, Rare Disease, rare diseases

What if?

February 20, 2015 By Susannah Fox 18 Comments

Times Square

Quick explanation: I tweeted “What if this Pew Research GIF was played on a loop in Times Square?” and my friend Mike Lee made it happen (in our Photoshopped dreams). What if every conference displayed it on a screen, so that every public conversation in every industry was framed by the context of the coming […]

Filed Under: demographics Tagged With: #whatifhc, AARP, aging, Ai-jen Poo, Caring Across Generations, demographics, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Pew Research Center

What health care can learn from Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel

February 13, 2015 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Google is upgrading health search…again. In 2010, I was inspired by Animal Farm to write that Google saw some health sites as more equal than others. This time I turned to Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton.

Filed Under: positive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles Tagged With: #bcsm, #whatifhc, Apple, cystic fibrosis, Erin Moore, Google, HealthKit, Hugo Campos, IBM Watson, Iodine, multiple sclerosis, patientslikeme, Quantified Self, Rare Disease, Smart Patients, Stanford Medicine X

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