by Nancy Finn | May 10, 2017
The practice of medicine is shifting from episodic patient care to care focused on addressing many broad-based, unique, sometimes esoteric health conditions. Fueling this transition is a new focus on patient reported outcomes and health data registries that aggregate...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 15, 2013
A clinical trial in Kenya confirmed that human kindness is the secret ingredient to health and mobile phones are an ideal delivery system. Well, that’s my interpretation. Here’s the gist: Taking your meds is essential to maintaining your health when you...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 18, 2013
This is the big update to our preview post last November. There’s a stage in a movement where it starts to get serious media coverage, and ours is coming of age. We’ve documented the progress: 2009: Susannah Fox was on NPR’s Morning...
by Susannah Fox | May 25, 2011
Here’s my simple definition of peer-to-peer healthcare: Patients and caregivers know things — about themselves, about each other, about treatments — and they want to share what they know to help other people. Technology helps to surface and organize...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 25, 2011
Last fall, at the e-Patient Connections conference, I gave a sneak preview of some survey results which are set to be have been released on the Pew Internet site on Monday, Feb. 28. I hoped to spark new ideas for a savvy, plugged-in audience and I ended up surprising...
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