By Susannah Fox | May 2, 2013
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... By Susannah Fox | April 26, 2013
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... By Susannah Fox | April 8, 2013
New analysis of the Pew Research Center’s 2010 health survey results show differences among three populations: veterans of the U.S. military who obtain their health care within the Veterans Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA);... By Susannah Fox | April 2, 2013
Four years ago this week, e-Patient Dave published, “Imagine someone had been managing your data, and then you looked,” and forever changed the national conversation about health data. I have described that post as an earthquake — a surprise to those... By Susannah Fox | February 28, 2013
A guest post by Wendy White, Founder & President of Siren Interactive Each year Rare Disease Day is celebrated worldwide on the last day of February. This year is even more special because it’s the 30th anniversary of the Orphan Drug Act, which provides incentives... By Susannah Fox | February 9, 2013
For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking friends to join them. All of a sudden we’d transformed a bare patch... By Susannah Fox | January 15, 2013
Survey data is a snapshot of a population, a moment captured in numbers, like vital signs: height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, etc. People build trend lines and watch for changes, shifting strategies as they make educated guesses about what’s going on.... By Susannah Fox | December 28, 2012
I was curious to see which were the top 5 posts, traffic-wise, and figured readers might be interested, too. Here’s the line-up: #1: Open knowledge saves lives. Oppose H.R. 3699! by Gilles Frydman The e-patients.net post with the highest number of views is a... By Susannah Fox | December 3, 2012
Warning: this doesn’t end well. Not for anyone in the story. Unless it changes you, as it did me. Jonathan Welch, MD, teaches at Harvard Medical School and practices in the ER at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. But, as is often the case in life, the... By Susannah Fox | December 1, 2012
Check out the documentary film, The Waiting Room, set in the emergency department of Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. I wrote a post about a screening and discussion in DC last night and I’m hoping to get a report from tonight’s Cambridge, MA, event. If...
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