Susannah Fox - Medicine X Conversation from Larry Chu on Vimeo. The Internet has impacted the social aspects of our lives in immeasurable ways. In this video, Susannah Fox, the associate director of Digital Strategy at Pew Internet & American Life Project, discusses how U.S. adults are tracking their fitness, weight and health, and many are using various forms of technology to do so. Pew Internet’s study on health tracking found that 69 percent of adults track their...

For years, the International CES has drawn some of the top marketing minds from the world's biggest brands. In fact, at the 2012 CES, over 4,000 advertising and marketing executives came to the show to see the latest in technology and innovation. This year, CES launched Brand Matters, a new program designed to provide the marketing and advertising community with a customized CES experience. Ogilvy & Mather, one of the largest marketing communications companies in the world...

  Years ago, using the word “consumer” to describe a patient in the healthcare setting would have you labeled a healthcare heretic quite quickly. To refer to patients as consumers highlighted the commercial aspect of healthcare often avoided, until recently, in general discourse surrounding healthcare. After attending the Digital Health Summit at the 2013 International CES, it is clear that one of the big questions in healthcare is no longer “Are we...

President Ronald Reagan once called information “the oxygen of the modern age,” adding that “[i]t seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” And Reagan never lived in a world with Twitter. Today, social media can build up or take down politicians in under 140 characters, while citizen journalism has the power to topple oppressive regimes in weeks. “The proliferation of smartphones and digital cameras today...

Imagine coming from another country to the U.S. to receive a world-class education at a top American university. After falling in love with the country and embracing the American Dream, you start to plan your high-growth startup company. As everything seems to be falling in place and you are focusing on company growth, the government tells you that you can no longer stay in the U.S. because your visa is expiring. Now, you must decide to embark on the painstaking and uncertain process of...