Making Health Data Sing (Even If It’s A Familiar Song)
The innovators being showcased today at the Community Health Data Initiative event are examples of people who want to talk about health disparities AND do something about it.
A New Conversation About Health Privacy
Mobile, social technologies are tapping in to a human need to connect with each other, to share, to lend a helping hand, and to laugh. I'd like to start a conversation about health privacy that includes an open dialogue about the risks and benefit...
Leveraging Social Media and the Mobile Internet in Health Messaging
A synthesis of the Pew Internet Project's most recent research related to health and the participatory news consumer.
Participant-Entrepreneurs: Innovating Toward Better Health
Not content to stand by and let other people innovate for them, participant-entrepreneurs are creating the services, devices, and communities they need.
Participatory Medicine – Chronic Disease in the Internet Age
The internet does not replace health professionals, but rather provides a way for people to gather and share information in a rapid-learning system that can best be described as "participatory medicine."
Frequently Asked (But Unanswered) Questions About E-Patients
As I've written before, I love questions. It's an honor to be handed someone's nascent idea and to help them shape it (which is what I think a question really is). But this time I'm asking for YOUR input.
Preventing Stroke and Heart Disease: Connecting Traditional and Emerging Communication Approaches to Change Behavior
Highlights from some of the key presentations made at a National Institutes of Health workshop held in November 2009.
A conversation with Thomas Goetz and Susannah Fox
A conversation with Susannah Fox and Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired Magazine, at the Pew Research Center in Washington DC.
Patients and Online Communities
What does the internationalization of information mean for patients and health professionals? What are the strengths - and weaknesses - of online patient communities?
Chronic Disease in Data and Narrative
The back-story on the report, "Chronic Disease and the Internet," including answers to questions about probability vs. causality and why we included quotes from patients throughout the analysis.
