Category Archives: health technology

• Health communication and health IT

  Posted on September 13, 2011 by courtneyhughes in health communication, health literacy, health technology

  Healthy People 2020, a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan, states as one of its goals, to “Use health communication strategies and health information technology (IT) to improve population health outcomes and health care quality, and to achieve health equity.” Zeroing in in the communication aspect of this goal, let’s examine two different user […]

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• The Role of Incentives

  Posted on August 17, 2011 by courtneyhughes in health behaviors, health technology

  There’s a stage in the health technology life cycle when we’ve finished beta testing and set up client contracts, but still need to get employees/members to actually use the product/service. Increasingly, companies use incentives to drive participation, engagement and adherence. For example, employers are embracing incentives—some smaller incentives like tchotchkes or $10 cash and some […]

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• mHealth Networking Conference in Chicago March 30-31, 2011

  Posted on March 26, 2011 by courtneyhughes in health communication, health technology

  The mHealth Networking Conference is coming to Chicago this week (March 30-31, Crowne Plaza O’Hare). This is a two-day annual conference focused on the latest in opportunities, apps and strategies for supporting health using mobile devices. Attendees comprise clinicians, payers, researchers, vendors and others. First, a little background on mHealth…mHealth is a sub-segment of eHealth, […]

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• Consumer segmentation tool for public health insights

  Posted on January 30, 2011 by courtneyhughes in health behaviors, health technology

  A recent article in BMC Public Health reports insights about smoker demographics using an Experian consumer segmentation tool. I peer-reviewed an article for the journal BMC Public Health that showed traditional measures of socioeconomic status (SES) may underplay social disparities in smoking prevalence. Not surprisingly, the authors found that increasing smoking prevalence was correlated with […]

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• Health and financial impact of implementing clinical decision support systems

  Posted on February 20, 2009 by courtneyhughes in health costs, health technology, medication adherence

  Today, a Healthcare IT News article was published on the financial impact of clinical decision support (CDS) systems. The article reported results from research I did as a consultant to Anvita Health, a health care analytics company. The primary finding is that the potential cost savings attributable to decreased medical costs from using advanced CDS […]

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