Health Policy

reportJun 3, 2010

Tensions Between Rights of Conscience and Civil Rights

Should doctors, pharmacists and other health care workers have the right to refuse to provide services that conflict with their religious beliefs? Until recently, the debate over “conscience protections” for health care workers centered largely on abortion and birth control. But in the past few years, new cases have emerged that have expanded the debate […]
reportJun 2, 2010

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.
reportMay 28, 2010

Lessons and Highlights from the Gov 2.0 Expo

The Gov 2.0 Expo was a smorgasbord of policy, technology, and citizen engagement. Aaron Smith and Susannah Fox share their notes.
presentationMay 23, 2010

The Power of the Web

Susannah Fox will provide a sneak preview of an upcoming report on how people living with cancer use the internet, in addition to an overview of already-released findings on the social life of health information.
reportMay 21, 2010

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…
presentationMay 20, 2010

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.
presentationMay 13, 2010

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.”
reportMay 13, 2010

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.
reportMay 11, 2010

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.
reportMay 5, 2010

The Power of Data and the Power of One

If someone is motivated enough to dig, interested enough to analyze, and knowledgeable enough about their chosen topic to see data with fresh eyes, they can start a revolution…

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Lessons and Highlights from the Gov 2.0 Expo

Frequently Asked (But Unanswered) Questions About E-Patients

The Power of Data and the Power of One