Upcoming speaking event for Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Barbara would love to hear from you. Please see “Your Turn” at the end of this post. As always, thank you for your valuable time. I’m thrilled to be invited to participate at the Ivey Global Health Care Conference Measuring What Matters: Cost vs. Value in Toronto, ON Canada. I will join an exciting panel to discuss “Needs, Wants and Values in Health Care: The Public…
Read More...Speaking Event: Cayman Islands National Healthcare 20/20 Conference
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I’m delighted to participate in the Cayman Islands National Healthcare 20/20 Conference, and the topic of my presentation is “The rise of digital technology for better patient engagement.” For further details you may read the Press Release (provided by the 20/20 Healthcare Conference) below. 20/20 Healthcare Conference to discuss how patients can be better informed The use of mobile devices and the internet to help provide a greater level…
Read More...Social Media and Health IT – List of HIT100 Winners
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Healthcare IT News recently published the winners of #HIT100. The #HIT100 is a crowd-sourced list of the most influential individuals or organizations who contribute to the advancement of health care technology through social media. Nominated by their peers, winners are Twitter users active in the health IT (#HealthIT) and social media (#HITsm) space. Michael Planchart, enterprise healthcare architect at Perficient, and blogger at The EHR Guy is the creator…
Read More...Speaking Events: Blogher and e-Patient Connections
Upcoming speaking events for Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA e-Patient Connections 2012 – September 24-25, 2012 Where: Philadelphia, PA When: September 24, 2012 Presentation Title: Let the Games Begin! Using Gamification as a Tool to Engage e-Patients Effectively – Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Founder, Healthin30, Media Broadcaster, Writer, The Huffington Post and John Pugh, Head of Online Communications, Boehringer Ingelheim Agenda Speakers BlogHer ’12 – August 2-4, 2012 Where: New York, New York When:…
Read More...Brilliant Tech Geniuses with Dreams to Change the World
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I’m super excited to write this post because it highlights amazing students who are passionate about changing the world for the better. Students from around the globe with passion, brainpower and love of technology are utilizing their talents to make the world a better place. They had the opportunity to compete in a world-wide technology competition, Imagine Cup 2012, made possible by Microsoft Corp. and Coca-Cola. These students represent…
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