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 […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...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 […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...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, […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...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 […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...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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