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The Social Life of Health Information

by Susannah Fox | Jun 10, 2009

The Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation report, The Social Life of Health Information, is packed with new findings from a survey of 2,253 adults, including 502 cell-phone interviews, conducted in either English or Spanish. We spent a bundle of money on...

Mobile, social technology and the impact on health care

by Susannah Fox | Mar 30, 2009

Fard Johnmar interviewed me about internet adoption, the use of social technologies among minority groups, and my hope that e-patients’ “passion, knowledge, and ingenuity is brought forward no matter what else is planned for health care reform.”...

Women and Health Care Disparities: Who Dies and Who Profits?

by Christine Gray | Dec 27, 2008

Are women dying of cancer in the same way they die of heart disease, because physicians trivialize their complaints and they are powerless to get second opinions? How many decades has it taken for cardiologists, practitioners at the apex of medicine, to acknowledge...

NIH Summit on Health Disparities

by Susannah Fox | Dec 17, 2008

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 seen other coverage of the event. If you spot stories...

Crowdsourcing a Survey: Reassured? Overwhelmed? Eager? Confused?

by Susannah Fox | Nov 5, 2008

The Pew Internet Project is finalizing our fall health survey and we are now in the painful cut phase. Here’s a question I’m hoping to save in a shorter form: At any point in your last search for health information online did you feel any of the following...

41% of Adults are “Activated Patients”

by Susannah Fox | Oct 21, 2008

The Center for Studying Health System Change has released another information-packed report, How Engaged Are Consumers in Their Health and Health Care, and Why Does It Matter. The researchers created a “Patient Activation Measure” and apparently 41% of...