The following is a guest post by Dr. Ivor Braden Horn, a board-certified pediatrician and leading thinker on how social media and mobile health technology can be used to improve health outcomes in underserved populations. She is an NIH-funded investigator whose research interests focus on health care communications and child health disparities. The power [...]
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Reflections on TEDMED 2013 and Hopes for TEDMED 2014
By Ana Tellez | May 1, 2013Protecting the Sexual Health of NYC Teens
By Blythe | April 11, 2013The Bloomberg administration in New York City has combined 3 of my very favorite things — sexual health, adolescent health, and digital health — with the launch of a new app that gives teens quick access to information about important sexual health services. Funded by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, [...]
DHCX — A True Extravaganza
By Mary Ann Petti | February 25, 2013We’re back from this year’s Digital Health Communication Extravaganza (DHCX) in sunny Florida and we’re feeling excited, inspired, and ready to use what we’ve learned! DHCX is a great place for CommunicateHealth to mix and mingle — in person and on Twitter — with the digital health cream of the crop. Jay Bernhardt, the conference [...]
Extravaganza Time!
By Mary Ann Petti | February 20, 2013Three days, 29 poster presentations, 32 verbal sessions, and hundreds of health communication experts flocking to Orlando, Florida — that’s right, the countdown to the Digital Health Communication Extravaganza (DHCX) is finally over. DHCX combines technology and health communication, with a focus on improving health behaviors using digital resources. Talk about right up the [...]
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