Now Reading: Does mobile technology support behavior change? Does it support weight loss?
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The quick answer is: don’t focus on the technology. This is not one, not two, but three papers published in the last six months, the last one last week, encompassing an impressive body of work around behavior change and weight loss, from the same research group led by Bonnie Spring, PhD, at Northwestern University. There’s [...]
Presentation: Meaningful mobile technology use … to achieve Total Health
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Attaching slides from webinar today hosted by FierceHealthIT (@fiercehealthIT) : mHealth’s Impact on the Future of Meaningful Use – FierceHealthcare , on which I appeared with Joe Kvedar, MD (@jkvedar), talking about Kaiser Permanente’s mobile health journey. Health information technology is in service to Total Health in my world, or as I sometimes say, prevention [...]
Shadowing in the paperless, mobile-accessible practice of Sharman Reed, MD, at Kaiser Permanente Colorado
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Sharman Reed, MD, OB/Gyn Physician, Colorado Permanente Medical group I realized while shadowing Sharman Reed, MD, an OB/Gyn in the Colorado Permanente Medical Group that physicians are going to have to change their scripting in the era of mobile. Instead of asking, “Would you like me to e-mail you or call you with your results?”, [...]
Digital differences | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
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Digital differences | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project – Latest report from Pew Internet shows – equal access to the Internet wirelessly across ethnicities, dramatic rise in overall access for ethnic minorities, and continued trend in increased access to the Internet via mobile much greater in ethnic minorities. and…22% of Americans still [...]
mHealth happiness: Usage data of Kaiser Permanente mobile tools to manage health, and patient stories
1commentIn my last blog post (“Is mHealth at a crossroads? A visit with the NIH Public-Private Partnership Program“), I wrote: I don’t have data on the Kaiser Permanente (mobile health) experience yet, but as soon as I do, I’ll post it here. My awesome colleagues in the Kaiser Permanente Internet Services Group saw this posting [...]
Is mHealth at a crossroads? A visit with the NIH Public-Private Partnership Program
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A little over two years ago, I wrote a cheerlead-y piece on mHealth entitled “6 Reasons why mHealth is different than eHealth” (most of the stuff I write on here is cheerlead-y, everything except keeping secrets from patients, I don’t cheearlead that). I just reviewed it again, and the 6 reasons weren’t all reasons why [...]
Siri, show me my lab test results
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View Siri, show me my lab test results on Flickr.com “Ted, I cannot find your lab test results. You can view them in Kaiser Permanente’s mobile optimized kp.org” It’s here. Similar Posts: Siri, email my doctor mHealth happiness: Usage data of Kaiser Permanente mobile tools to manage health, and patient stories Why Dont More Hospitals [...]