Mobile

medical records, policy issues

What people living with disability can teach us

Susannah Fox | January 26, 2011

The Pew Internet Project recently issued a short report noting that people living with disability are less likely than other adults in the U.S. to use the internet: 54%, compared with 81%. The first question many people ask when they hear that is, Why? The second is, What can be done? The third is, or [...]

key people

Who are those guys? (Matt Wiggins and Remedy Systems)

Susannah Fox | November 16, 2010

How many times have you been at a conference, listening to some panel, when all of a sudden someone says something that snaps you out of your stupor and you think, “Who *is* that guy?” (And if you’re lucky enough to remember Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, please enjoy the following rendition of that [...]

found on the net

The Power of Mobile (Video)

Susannah Fox | September 15, 2010

The video of my Mayo Transform 2010 speech, The Power of Mobile, is now up on the conference site as well as on YouTube. It was an honor to be part of this event. Many thanks to David Rosenman and his team for inviting me!

demographics, trends & principles

The Power of Mobile

Susannah Fox | September 13, 2010

Prepared for Mayo Transform 2010: Thinking Differently About Health Care (video now available). Ten years ago, I wrote the Pew Internet Project’s first report on the impact of the internet on health care, calling it “The Online Health Care Revolution.” Back then, the idea that people were searching online for health information was revolutionary. All [...]

demographics, trends & principles

Mobile, Social Health at the National Library of Medicine

Susannah Fox | July 13, 2010

Update: The NLM released new widgets on July 14, along with a redesigned MedlinePlus site. (Read @eagledawg‘s take on these new tools, as well as her response to this post.) Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Picture it: [...]

trends & principles

Mobile could be a game-changer – but only for those who get in the game.

Susannah Fox | April 23, 2009

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 [...]