Seeing the lights in research with our heads in the clouds
Some fields stagnate because they fail to take the bold steps into the unknown by taking chances and proposing new
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Information & communication technologies for health
Evaluating Health Promotion Social Media Strategies for Public Health Impact
I recently spoke at an interactive workshop presentation at the 2013 Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC) looking at social media
Read moreSocial Media and Health: Leaders(hip) and Followers(hip)
Systems thinking, design thinking, developmental evaluation, creativity, networks and innovation: these are the keywords for health in the coming years. They are as author Eric Topol calls the dawning of the creative destruction of medicine. The public is already using social media for health and now the time has come for health (care, promotion and protection) systems to get on board and make the changes necessary to join them.
Read moreComplexity, Interaction Design and Social Media
Social media, like all human activities, involves designed interactions in a complex environment. How we design for this space is as much about the social as it is the media.
Read moreThe Face-to-Face Complexity of eHealth & Knowledge Exchange
Using complexity science principles to guide the process and powered by social media and face-to-face engagement, the power to take what we know, contextualize it, and transform it into something we can act on seems to me the best way forward in dealing with problems of chronic disease that are so knotted and pervasive, yet demand rapid responses.
Read moreSocial Marketing, Marketers and Responsibility
Social marketing can be a problem when what we ‘sell’ has unintended consequences. These are discussed in light of certain health behaviour change concepts and theories.
Read moreSocial Marketing/ Social Media Blowback And eHealth Communication Etiquette
An increase in well-intentioned health and education groups are violating the etiquette of social media by sending unsolicited emails to people and the blowback that comes from that might be enough to derail the good health communication messages to come.
Read moreThe Lady Gaga – mHealth Connection
mHealth (mobile health) has a remarkable number of similarities to Lady Gaga. In this post, I point them out.
Read moreeHealth / mHealth And Privacy Will Never Coexist
A recent podcast from Twist Image unleashed a whole line of thinking in me about privacy and our electronic tools and has led me to conclude that eHealth and privacy cannot and will not ever coexist.
Read moreCreating the Future Through Systems-Design Thinking
A recent World Bank post on the future of governments in design thinking spurred some of my own thoughts on how it links with systems thinking.
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