Healthwise in the News
Learn more about Healthwise and how health care organizations around the world are using our products and solutions to help people live healthier lives. Articles, interviews, podcasts, and more keep you up to date on our award-winning patient education solutions.
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2011 News
An HIT Moment with…Don Kemper, CEO, Healthwise
June 24, 2011 - HIStalk
Don talks with HIStalk about Healthwise offerings, information therapy, meaningful use, and how new technologies support better health decisions.
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Healthwise Reaches One Billion Mission Points
June 8, 2011 - KTRV Fox 12
Healthwise celebrates one billion mission points at their Boise, ID headquarters.
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Don Kemper Interviewed at World Health Care Congress
April 6, 2011 - World Health Care Congress
Don Kemper, Healthwise CEO, discusses why information therapy is as important as any other available therapy.
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2010 News
Interactive Multimedia in Health Education
September 1, 2010 -
Health Literacy Out Loud, with Helen Osborne
Karen Baker, Healthwise senior vice president of consumer experience, talks about the process Healthwise uses to develop, test, and implement award-winning Healthwise
® Ix
® Conversations.
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Taking Medical Jargon Out of Doctor Visits
July 6, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal, by Laura Landro
Nearly nine out of 10 adults have difficulty following routine medical advice, largely because it's often incomprehensible to average people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
The Center for Plain Language Goes Viral
May 7, 2010 - Plain Language Matters, by Deborah S. Bosley
The Center for Plain Language has now hit the big time. Bosley writes about the success of the first annual ClearMark and WonderMark awards.
Language awards salute the good and the gobbledygook in government, business
April 30, 2010 - The Washington Post, by Ed O'Keefe
The Center for Plain Language distributed ClearMark awards for examples of good language and WonderMark awards for examples of the worst. Healthwise won the Grand ClearMark Award for its virtual coaching program on dealing with low back pain.
It's Time: The Era of Patient Accountability
January 14, 2010 -
Health Affairs Blog, posted by Don Kemper
Health care reform, by any name, can only achieve affordable, quality care for all by tapping the potential of the one health care resource which is both abundant and far underutilized—the patient.
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2009 News
Adding Health Advice to Online Medical Records
October 6, 2009 -
The New York Times, by Steve Lohr
The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions—80 percent or more, experts say—are really made by individuals …
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Carrot or Stick? Should Patient Decision Aids Be Rewarded or Required, by Don Kemper
October 1, 2009 - The Health Care Blog, posted by Don Kemper
1. Should we incent or require providers to prescribe patient decision aids?
2. Should we incent or require consumers to use patient decision aids?
Interview: Healthwise Founder, Don Kemper
September 29, 2009 - Stepping Stone Partners e-newsletter, by Sherri Dorfman
Healthwise CEO, Don Kemper, talks about Healthwise’s innovative Decision Points and Ix Conversations.
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Interview: Healthwise Founder, Don Kemper
August 25, 2009 -
The Patient Will See You Now, by Kevin Kruse
For most health consumers, Healthwise is the biggest brand they’ve never heard of. Even though Healthwise content is accessed over 110 million times a year, it is accessed most often through online health publishers, health plans, hospitals, and disease management companies.
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Patient Heal Thyself
July 23, 2009 -
The Health Care Blog, post by Donald W. Kemper
If you want a better system, support a smarter patient. For weeks now Congress has been stymied by how to pay for extending coverage to the uninsured. While it may seem stupid to look to the patient for the answer, pumping more money into the current system would be the stupidest idea of all.
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Expanding the Universe
July 23, 2009 -
Modern Healthcare, by Rebecca Vesely
As Congress mulls policy changes to expand access, healthcare Opinion Leaders offer their take.
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Health 2.0 Meets Ix
May 4, 2009 -
Icyou, by Donald W. Kemper
The Chairman and CEO of Healthwise, Don Kemper, talks about differences and similarities between the Health 2.0 and Information Therapy (Ix
®) movements.
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Shelley Baldiga's Voice Reaches People Through Information Therapy
April 22, 2009 -
Vox Daily, by Stephanie Ciccarelli
Many health care related sites are now providing useful, reliable health information directly to patients to help them manage their conditions and make treatment choices through interactive presentations involving voice over.
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The Virtual Health Home
April 21, 2009 -
H&HN Weekly, contributed by Donald W. Kemper and Leslie Kelly Hall
We propose a concept that would greatly assist patients in managing their own health care: the virtual health home. The virtual health home is a web-based center of integrated applications selected by the consumer to better manage all aspects of his or her health and health care.
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Online Records Can Help Get Patients More Involved in Care
March 18, 2009 -
iHealthBeat
Large managed care groups and health plans increasingly are turning to online tools to provide reliable, targeted and timely health information directly to patients to help them manage their conditions and make medical …
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Online Records Get Patients Involved in Care
March 18, 2009 -
The Wall Street Journal, by Laura Landro
If all the talk in Washington about using electronic medical records to cut health-care costs makes your eyes glaze over, it might help to consider the experience of Holly Jacobson, the 41-year-old employee of an educational nonprofit in Sacramento, California …
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Is 60 the New 40?
March 12, 2009 -
Boise City Club, presentation by Molly Mettler
Hear about vital aging, hula hoops, and the power of boomers in health care.
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