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Health Promotion Informatics

The recent advances in computer technology and global communication infrastructrure offer health professionals with an opportunity to revolutionize the field of health promotion. When combined with sound priciples of psychology, sociology, communications, and social marketing individuals and health professionals have an enormously important tool to significantly impact on the health, well-being, and quality of life of people throughout the world. It is vitally important for newly trained health professionals to understand the state-of-the-art and emerging concepts, technologies, and applications, or know where to keep abreast of them so that they can be at the forefront of their field. Below I have collected a dynamic field of links in several areas that relate to technology and health promotion. The tools for the future are there and being developed. Highly successful health professionals and businesses will use them in effective and culturally appropriate ways.

I am calling this broadly defined field Health Promotion Informatics.

The revolutions

• Technology - It will contain information about the intersection of health promotion, computerization, and the national/international information infrastructure (NII).
• Computerization -
• Social Marketing - Alan Andreason
• Health care -
• Market forces and pressures - see independent study paper (a pdf file) Added: March 20, 2001

Experts

• Robert Gold - Macro International
• Tak Utsumi - GLOSIS
• Ron LaPorte - GNN
• C. Everett Koop - Koop Foundation

Software

• Karch International
• IVI/Mayo Clinic

Health Club tracking

• Transcape

Health education

• CHESS - University of Wisconsin Madison - Dr. Dave Gustafson
• Healthy Village
• Go Ask Alice - Columbia University
• World Wellness on The Web - University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
• Bill Hettler Medical Group Management Association Meeting - Increasing Revenues By Integrating Wellness And Health Promotion Services Into The Practice Of Medicine. Fall,1996 Meeting (October 14, 1996)
• Multi-media in Health and Health Promotion - Bill Hettler.
  

Professional Organizations - there are several, but these are good places to start

• American Medical Informatics Association - Medical Informatics
• HIMSS - Healthcare Information and Management Systems Soceity

Journals

• Healthcare Informatics - general IS/IT in healthcare
• JAMIA - Journal of the Medical Informatics Assocaition
• MDComputing - greared to physicians

Internships

• Koop Foundation
• Multimedia
• Macro International
• NBC - Channel 4

Research

Trends/Players

• Netscape
• IBM
• Healthy Village
• CHIN
• WHIN

Listserves/Sites

Other Health Fitness Links

Health Commuinication, Cognitive Psychology, Social Marketing

Tuffs-Emerson Program in Health Communication - from a public health perspective

My papers

Health Promotion Informatics

To date the most interesting concept I have found is something called the Guardian Angel. by Peter Szolovitz at MIT

Please monitor this page, tell me your thoughts and reactions, and grow with me.

This page is a fun and quasi-intellectual and scholarly adventure by John Studach. You can send me e-mail.

Last updated December 17, 1996.