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HIPAA's Broken Promises

By SUSANNAH FOX If you hate HIPAA, it’s your lucky day. Paul Ohm is handing you ammunition in his article, “Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization.” His argument: our current information privacy structure is a...
September 27, 2009 in HIPPA, HIT, Privacy, Susannah Fox | Permalink | Comments (19)

Decoding “The Social Life of Health Information”

By SUSANNAH FOX The Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation report, The Social Life of Health Information, is packed with new findings from a survey of 2,253 adults, including 502 cell-phone interviews, conducted in either English or Spanish. We spent a bundle...
June 16, 2009 in Online Communities, Susannah Fox, Technology | Permalink | Comments (7)

Adding layers to Health 2.0

By Susannah Fox Jen McCabe Gorman drew a picture at HealthCampDC last that I really liked. Luckily, I found this image of her Medicine 2.0 presentation, so nobody has to decipher my sketch. The one difference is that, on Friday,...
September 16, 2008 in Health 2.0, Susannah Fox, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (4)

Keep tabs on your digital footprint

By Susannah Fox Is it "disordered" behavior to Google your doctor? An article in JAMA suggests that doctors should be on their guard. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published an article about how doctors should be aware...
September 1, 2008 in Consumers, e-patients, Physicians, Susannah Fox, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

Three-quarters of Internet users seek health info

By Susannah Fox The Pew Internet Project released the latest estimate for the e-patient population: 75 percent of internet users. Here are some details from the survey. My colleagues recently updated our top three trend charts: Who's Online, Internet Activities,...
August 7, 2008 in e-patients, Susannah Fox, Technology, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (9)

How patients get the best care

By Susannah Fox What are the social and psychological factors that affect how people are treated -- or even their health outcomes? This question has popped up in my reading and in my work quite a bit this week, and...
July 11, 2008 in e-patients, Susannah Fox, Technology | Permalink | Comments (3)