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, 2013Annals of Twitter: NCHCMM
By Kimber | August 10, 2012Just back from CDC’s 5th annual National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media, we’ve got a lot on our minds — and in our Twitter feeds. With Twitter appearing to reign supreme among the social media outlets, the conference hashtag (#hcmmconf) was trending all week with some of the most memorable sound bytes from [...]
Inspiration and Innovation at UPA Boston’s 11th Annual Usability & User Experience Conference
By Sarah | May 10, 2012How can organizations better involve clients in the design process? Are formal written reports the best way to communicate usability test findings? How can we engage new users in mobile and Web-based games for behavior change? These were a few of the questions that were explored at the 2012 UPA Boston Conference. UPA 2012 allowed [...]
Day Two of Innovation at DHCX
By Sarah | February 21, 2012Before we give our highlights from Day Two of the Digital Health Communication Extravaganza, let’s add our voice to the chorus of attendees who were provoked by Sekou Andrews’ performative speech that closed Day One! Deeply touching (and amusing!), it was a superb example of using storytelling to talk about complex problems and solutions — [...]
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