Poor and Elderly E-patients–Susannah Fox
The current issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved features an article based on a August 2006 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Unfortunately, the full...
View ArticleReducing Disparities, Spreading Improvement–Susannah Fox
Josh Seidman asks a very good question that goes toward our discussion of spreading improvement and the digital divide, “If [targeted] interventions… have been shown to have an enormous impact on the...
View ArticleNIH Summit on Health Disparities–Susannah Fox
NIH is sponsoring a summit this week, The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities. I heard about it from Mary Brophy Marcus’s article in USA Today and I found this press release online, but I haven’t...
View ArticleParticipation Matters–Susannah Fox
In politics and in health care, participation matters as much as access. The passion we saw in the political campaigns last year is matched by the passion we see when someone is trying to save a life,...
View ArticleThe Decision Tree: How Better Health Can Scale–Susannah Fox
“The internet was created to connect people and groups. The first step is to share stories. The next step is to share quantitative observations.” “Health care has been locked up in regulatory amber....
View ArticleWhat people living with disability can teach us–Susannah Fox
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...
View ArticleA Health Information Divide–Susannah Fox
This post is first and foremost a thank-you note. Thank you to everyone who posted a comment, emailed me, or tweeted a suggestion in response to my request for input last July: Crowdsourcing a Survey....
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Fact sheet: U.S. teens and adults at the intersection of health and technology
In an earlier post I shared the history of the “fact sheets” I maintain about health and technology. I thought I’d share a few highlights from the grandmother of them all — key data points on U.S....
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