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Public Q&A: How do (older, lower-income) patients learn?

May 2, 2013 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Rebecka Sexton of the Center For Innovation at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA, emailed a great question and I’d like to share it more widely: We are working on a project here at Carilion on chronic diseases related to Population Health Management related to COPD. I am specifically working on the education component from […]

Filed Under: demographics, net-friendly docs, public Q&A Tagged With: Ivor Horn, safety net

Public service researcher

May 1, 2013 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Vintage nurse recruitment poster: For your country's sake today. For your own sake tomorrow.

I think of myself as a public service researcher. The Pew Charitable Trusts and the California HealthCare Foundation provide the funds for the work I do and, in turn, I do everything I can to inject the findings into the public conversation: publish reports and data sets online, for free; talk to reporters and bloggers […]

Filed Under: participatory research, public Q&A, research issues, social media Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Pew Research Center, public service

Ribbons, ribbons, everywhere

April 28, 2013 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Ribbon shape on wall

Peggy Orenstein‘s article, “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer,” is worth one of your precious NYTimes.com chits (unless, of course, you’re a subscriber, in which case you have hopefully already devoured it). But don’t just take my word for it, read this post by Katherine O’Brien of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network — the bloggers […]

Filed Under: policy issues, research issues Tagged With: breast cancer, cancer, New York Times, Peggy Orenstein

A picture worth a thousand “What if health care..?” words

April 26, 2013 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

What if kids were given the support to participate in and understand their own health care? – @savingcase For more health care dreams, please see: What if health care…? (Storify) Or any of my other #whatifhc posts.  

Filed Under: pts as teachers Tagged With: #whatifhc

How I choose which conferences to attend

April 25, 2013 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Stanford Medicine X stage

I wrote this as a comment last year in response to a question about why Medicine X was so magical. I’m elevating it to a post thanks to encouragement from E-patient Dave and because I’d love to hear from other people about how they choose events to attend. 5 criteria I consider when I receive […]

Filed Under: general, public Q&A Tagged With: BJ Fogg, conferences, David Rosenman, Denise Silber, health 2.0, Health Foo, HealthCamp, Indu Subaiya, Larry Chu, Mark Scrimshire, Matthew Holt, Mayo Transform, patients included, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Stanford Medicine X, Stanford Mobile Health, Tedmed, Tim O'Reilly

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