Susannah Fox

An FCC survey finds that 78% of adults are internet users and 65% of adults have home broadband connections.

Susannah Fox will participate in a transatlantic dialogue on how technology enables innovation and transformation in health care.

Susannah Fox delivered a guest lecture for a history of medicine course regarding the role of the internet in health care over the last 15 years.

I believe that, although very few people engage with their health on a daily or even weekly basis, it is important to understand what they do when their attention is focused on a health question.

Search is central to health information gathering. Now search sites are guiding consumers to safe, trusted health websites. Is that such a bad thing?

Susannah Fox will provide data on the current internet population, with a particular focus on health communication, wireless adoption, social media, and implications for public health planning.

38% of adults age 65 and older go online, a significantly lower rate of adoption than the general population (74%).

Social media is simply the current expression of patient activation and engagement. But this time e-patients are part of a larger cultural change that assumes access to information, enables communication among disparate groups, and expects progress.

From 2006 to 2008, internet use among Latino adults rose by 10 percentage points, from 54% to 64%, compared with a four percentage point rise among whites and a two percentage point rise among blacks.

64% of Latino adults ages 18 and older used the internet in 2008, compared with 54% of Latinos in 2006.