New health insurance applications are being promoted by the Obama administration as a major step in improving access to the new health exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). And while we’re happy to see refinements to the original application, we’re left wondering if the administration could do even more. We applaud efforts [...]
Health Literacy
Health Insurance Exchange Applications: We can do better
By Amy | May 17, 2013Reflections on TEDMED 2013 and Hopes for TEDMED 2014
By Ana Tellez | May 1, 2013The 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 [...]
Gearing up for IHA’s Health Literacy Conference
By Mary Ann Petti | April 22, 2013We’ve been getting a lot of miles out of our blazers this spring as we present at health education and usability conferences across the U.S. One of our favorite conferences is coming up, IHA’s Annual Health Literacy Conference in California on May 8 through 10. The conference brings together clinicians, educators, researchers, policymakers, and interested [...]
Protecting 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, [...]
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