What does health literacy have to do with apps specifically for chronic disease? Quite a lot, it turns out. In this episode you’ll learn about issues of engagement, accessibility, and relevance when it comes to apps for chronic disease management. You’ll also learn three things you can do to bring into focus the health literacy […]

What does health literacy have to do with apps specifically for chronic disease? Quite a lot, it turns out. In this episode you’ll learn about issues of engagement, accessibility, and relevance when it comes to apps for chronic disease management. You’ll also learn three things you can do to bring into focus the health literacy [...]

It’s easy to think about technology and machines as objective, neutral, value-free. But just this month, three recent major organizations–TIME magazine, NPR, and the AMA–have published work about bias in technology. In this episode, my brother Joe (who’s a health IT pro) and I take a look at a TIME magazine article about research into bias […]

It s easy to think about technology and machines as objective, neutral, value-free. But just this month, three recent major organizations–TIME magazine, NPR, and the AMA–have published work about bias in technology. In this episode, my brother Joe (who’s a health IT pro) and I take a look at a TIME magazine article about research into bias [...]

Whether you are a mentor, have a mentor, or want a mentor, this episode’s for you. I break down four domains–four ways of thinking–about mentoring and mentoring programs that may be helpful to you in the health professions. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT A couple years ago, I had a set of conversations with a physician in Academic Medicine who […]

Whether you are a mentor, have a mentor, or want a mentor, this episode’s for you. I break down four domains–four ways of thinking–about mentoring and mentoring programs that may be helpful to you in the health professions. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT A couple years ago, I had a set of conversations with a physician in Academic Medicine who [...]

I’ll invite you, for a moment, not to worry about health literacy, but to see it as something you can work with. In this episode, you’ll learn 4 helpful reminders when it comes to health literacy and your patients. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT In the last several years, health literacy has become the patient safety and quality […]

I ll invite you, for a moment, not to worry about health literacy, but to see it as something you can work with. In this episode, you’ll learn 4 helpful reminders when it comes to health literacy and your patients. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT In the last several years, health literacy has become the patient safety and quality [...]

Clear communication in digital health tools can be more complicated than it seems. In this episode, you’ll learn about: a surprising communication roadblock in digital health how it can derail a digital health tool two things you can do about it. And for this episode…for the very first time….I have a co-host! (NB We’re talking via […]

Clear communication in digital health tools can be more complicated than it seems. In this episode, you’ll learn about: a surprising communication roadblock in digital health how it can derail a digital health tool two things you can do about it. And for this episode…for the very first time….I have a co-host! (NB We’re talking via [...]