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Peer-to-peer healthcare acknowledges that patients and caregivers know things — about themselves, about each other, about treatments — and they want to share what they know to help other people. Technology helps to surface and organize that knowledge to make it useful for as many people as possible.

Susannah Fox delivered these remarks as part of the "Medicine: Mind the Gap" lecture series at the National Institutes of Health which "explores a wide range of issues at the intersection of research, evidence, and clinical practice—especially areas in which conventional wisdom may lead us astray."

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16%

of online adults sent email related to the 2010 campaign or the elections to friends, family members or others

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