by e-Patient Dave | Oct 31, 2019 |
In 2009, the Society for Participatory Medicine was created to continue the work of “Doc Tom” Ferguson (1943-2006), the founder of the e-patient movement and a true visionary who foresaw decades ago that “e-patients” (empowered, engaged, equipped, enabled)...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 17, 2016 |
Next in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. This is a blessing – the first post here in two years by Susannah Fox. More about this at the end of the post – for now, let’s get to the good stuff. She originally posted this as a comment on...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 18, 2016 |
Longtime readers of this blog know that for years Susannah Fox was its heart and soul. She was a devoted friend of “Doc Tom” Ferguson, creator of the e-patient concept in the 1990s, and for years at Pew Research she was the dependable guru of Pew’s...
by e-Patient Dave | May 28, 2015 |
A quick first post, copied from Facebook: “Hugest news EVER! Susannah Fox is the new Chief Technology Officer at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. How amazing is that??” My comment on Susannah’s short post: “This wins my prize as...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 18, 2014 |
I know many of our readers already saw this, but, from her personal blog: In one way, I’m sad to see that her work at Pew is over. In her 14 years there, time after time her work made clear what was actually happening as people use the internet in pursuing...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 26, 2013 |
Susannah Fox of Pew Research had an important new study published today about the highest cost part of the healthcare budget: patients with one or more chronic conditions. If you care about the suffering of patients with never-ending conditions or the suffering of the...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2012 |
Nancy has quite a publicist for her book “e-Patients Live Longer,” which is spreading the e-patient message… here’s an interview with FoxNews.com....
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2011 |
This is an unusual contribution in our series Why I Joined. As we’ve observed (August 2008, February 2009, February 2011) that language can be important in social movements, because as words change their meaning, messages can get crossed, and what a speaker...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 19, 2010 |
Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life project was on BBC Radio’s “Americana,” with Megan McCarthy, editor of TechMeme. (You know she’s wicked cool because her Twitter ID is just @Megan.) Topic: mobile internet usage in America. The...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Dec 16, 2008 |
Our savvy e-patients over at NeuroTalk noticed the launch of a new service by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, one of the leading Parkinson’s disease advocacy and research organizations. The new service, called PD Online Research, is billed as a “new web...
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