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Curriculum centers on essential skills, aims to groom leaders in burgeoning field. (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 Healthcare policy and practice touches all Americans at some time in their lives. Yet levels of understanding of healthcare policy and healthcare choices—healthcare literacy, in other words—is low among the general population. Southern New Hampshire University seeks to address this challenge by adding a new health communication concentration to its Master of Arts in Communication...
Award ceremony will be held on May 10 in Irvine, Calif. La Habra, Calif. (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 The Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) will present four awards on Friday, May 10, for outstanding achievements in health literacy. The awards will be presented at its Twelfth Annual Health Literacy Conference, “Operational Solutions to Low Health Literacy,” May 8-10 at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, Calif. The conference will be attended by over 300 professionals working in healthcare,...
The 4th M2W®-HW™ – The Marketing Health & Wellness to Women Conference, April 18, 2013, will have Kelley Connors, MPH, Founder & President of KC Healthcare Communications, "a true pioneer on the topic of marketing health and wellness to women", as Guest Emcee. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 20, 2013 Kelley Connors, MPH, Founder & President of KC Healthcare Communications will serve as Guest Emcee at the 4th M2W®-HW™ – The Marketing Health & Wellness...
The Baylor College of Medicine Teen Health Clinic will host its fifth annual technology conference April 2-3 focusing on the use of social media and other forms of electronic communication to advance public health initiatives. "At the Teen Health Clinic, we have made it a priority to integrate the use of today’s technology into our patient care efforts," said Dr. Peggy Smith, director of the clinic and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at BCM. "Our goal through the conference is to...
Indian Country and Public Health communications specialist part of small business team qualified by NIH to deliver education, information or communication campaigns over next 5 years WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) named today a team of seven firms, including BlackBear Communications, qualified to develop and deliver education, information and/or communications campaigns as part of a $500 million NIH Public Information and...
LANDOVER, Md., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloudburst Group today announced that Dr. Vladimir Knezevic, an innovative leader with a history of success in providing support to clinical and public health research, has joined the firm as Director of its Center for Public Health. In this position, Dr. Knezevic will be responsible for managing and driving the firm's established business in health communications, evaluation research and performance measurement, program planning and...
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardiocom, the Experts in Telehealth, introduces four new communication solutions: LinkView(TM), Attentiv(TM), NetResponse(TM) and TeleResponse(TM) to its proven telehealth platform. LinkView((TM)) is a sophisticated home telehealth solution that offers interactive video communication, color touch screen and vital sign measurement for patients in a single integrated package. Attentiv((TM) )is an advanced health monitoring and personal...
ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MMG (www.mmgct.com), a global health communications company specializing in clinical trial patient recruitment and retention, has formed an exclusive partnership with Remedy Health Media (www.remedyhealthmedia.com) to deliver unique access to a larger pool of qualified potential clinical trial participants. Remedy Health Media (Remedy) is America's fastest growing health information and technology company, which produces a variety of...
ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MMG (www.mmgct.com), a full-service global health communications company specializing in clinical-trial patient recruitment and retention, announces the launch of Healthyist, a blog to share perspectives and encourage wide-ranging discussion about public and social health communications and clinical research. "Recognizing how people are increasingly looking to the web for health and wellness information, we are excited to offer a...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to the rapidly growing interest in undergraduate education in public health, an Association of Schools of Public Health expert-led panel provided a set of critical component elements for public health bachelor's degrees last week. These groundbreaking critical component elements identify and define the essential aspects of an undergraduate education in public health, aiming to define the "what" and leaving the "how" of...
