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reportNov 1, 2010

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Consumers are often described as the greatest untapped information resource in medicine, but our research shows that patients and caregivers are already accessing that knowledge.
presentationOct 25, 2010

Online Health Seeking: How Social Networks Can Be Healing Communities

This keynote will explore the Pew Internet Project’s latest findings on health searches and sharing on the internet and smart phones, as well as how digital technologies allow patient-centered communities to emerge and give care to those who are s…
presentationOct 21, 2010

Lessons Learned: Online Patient Communities

Susannah Fox participated in a discussion of how the maturation of online social networks, patient communities, and patient blogs affects health and health care.
reportOct 19, 2010

Mobile Health 2010

The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults.
reportOct 11, 2010

Building a Research Agenda for Participatory Medicine

Spot the opportunity: Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Nearly half of American adults use online social network sites. Networks magnify whatever they are seeded with, for good or for ill.
presentationOct 7, 2010

Behavior Change, Health 2.0, and the Unmentionables

Susannah Fox will guide a discussion of a combination of tools, content, and community changes that factor into health improvement. But what actually drives behavior change? And are we even asking the right questions?
presentationOct 5, 2010

The E-patient is In: How Social Networking Can Make You A Better Surgeon

Social networking may represent an effective way for surgeons to better serve, i.e., to communicate, to educate, to care, for their patients, the public, medical students, residents and the general public.
presentationSep 28, 2010

Chronic Disease in the Internet Age

People living with chronic disease are among the least likely to have internet access, yet once online they often dive deeply into gathering, sharing, and creating health information.
reportSep 13, 2010

Mixed Views of GOP Proposals on Entitlements

Overview The public has sharply different reactions to major changes in Social Security and Medicare programs being proposed by some leading Republicans. While a majority favors a proposal to allow some private investments in Social Security, there is considerably less support for the idea of ending Medicare and replacing it with a system of vouchers […]
presentationSep 13, 2010

Transform Symposium

Susannah Fox will discuss the social life of health information and its potential for transforming health care.