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Staying Engaged: How To Use Streaks and Weekly Goals
Establishing new behaviors that eventually become habits that can lead to a new identity or sense of self can be hard. Two techniques that have worked to help me stay engaged as I work towards creating new habits are streaks and weekly … Continue reading
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A Small But Significant Patient-Centered Example
Digital health solutions that facilitate patient engagement must put the patient in charge, not the physician. Outside of the clinic, where health happens, in the day-in, day-out lives of people, we have to let the patient take ownership of and … Continue reading
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Big Data or Tiny Habits?
To repeat the oft-quoted words of Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” I believe that wearable activity tracking devices can be powerful habit transformation tools and I’m frustrated to see … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare lifestyle, Healthcare technology
Tagged behavior change, big data, fitness band, habit design, wearable technology
Get Smart With the New Misfit Shine
“Don’t tell me there’s another wearable fitness tracker on the shelf” Guess what, there’s another wearable fitness tracker on the shelf at Apple. “I asked you not to tell me that.”
Posted in Healthcare, Healthcare lifestyle, Healthcare technology, Uncategorized
Tagged behavior change, fitness band, wearable technology
Step Up and Flex Those Behavior Change Muscles
Fitbit, Jawbone, Basis, Misfit, Withings, Lark, Nike.. the list of activity tracking devices continues to grow. Which to choose? There are plenty of opinions – but most of the discussion comparing them tends to focus on hardware specific features such … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare lifestyle, Healthcare technology
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To Keep Me Engaged, Make It Meaningful
I believe that consumer tracking devices such as the Jawbone Up and Fitbit can have a long-term positive impact by helping people to establish healthy behaviors and habits. However, at the handful of consumer health oriented conferences I’ve been to, … Continue reading
Behavior Change Is (maybe not so) Hard.
I learned something recently that I wish I had learned 10 years ago: Self-motivation is not the way to create new daily behaviors that stick. The trick is to construct a new simple habit and just let it happen. Motivation … Continue reading
Imagine if your health plan was …
Suspend your understanding of your relationship with your health insurance company as it stands today and imagine something different with me… Imagine your health plan is a wellness “club”. In addition to providing insurance to help cover the cost of … Continue reading
HxD 2013 Pass Giveaway Extravaganza!
Here are some creative healthcare ideas and thoughts of mine in response to questions posted in preparation for the Healthcare Experience Design Conference (#HxDConf) in Boston on March 25 and a possible chance to win a free pass. (I’m currently … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Healthcare lifestyle, Healthcare technology, Lifestyle
Big Pharma Cashing in on Fee-For-Service
This article in today’s New York Times: Genentech Offers Secret Rebates for Eye Drug caught my eye… err… attention. It highlights one way that drug companies take advantage of our current fee-for-service system to drive their profit. The current fee-for-service … Continue reading
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