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• Getting Patients to Meaningful Use: Using the HL7 Infobutton Standard for Information Prescriptions
  

  by Donald W. Kemper, MPH, Healthwise CEO; Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, Co-Chair, HL7 International, Clinical Decision Support Work Group; Leslie Kelly Hall, Healthwise Senior Vice President; Shawn Myers, RN, MBA, Healthwise Senior Product Manager; and Jim Gutierrez, Healthwise Professional Services Consultant

  It’s time to make health IT meaningful for the patient. HIT advancements will do nothing to improve health care without patients and their families. Read the new white paper from Healthwise.
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• Carrot or Stick? Should Patient Decision Aids Be Rewarded or Required?
  

  Donald W. Kemper, MPH

  At a time when the nation’s attention is focused on how to get the best medical care while avoiding waste—decision aids can help people choose the care that’s right for them. The era of the decision aid has begun. Also, read the companion paper about Healthwise^® decision aids, called Decision Points.
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• Outside Looking In: Seeing Health Information Through Our Users' Eyes
  

  Healthwise User Experience Team

  When you see health information through consumers’ eyes, you can help them make better health decisions. For health information to do any good, people have to find it, understand it, use it—and act on it.
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• The Virtual Health Home: The Dashboard for Health and Health Care
  

  Donald W. Kemper, MPH, and Leslie Kelly Hall

  Every patient needs a virtual health home in addition to his or her patient-centered medical home. The virtual health home serves as a dashboard that connects people to all the information, tools, and support they need to continually manage their health care and their wellness. Also, read the companion paper about a new standard for collaboration between hospitals, patients, and physicians: Emmi® + Healthwise® .
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• e-Coaching for Boomer Health: How Information Therapy Tools Can Give Boomers the Personalized and Efficient Health Care Experience They Want and Need
  

  Molly Mettler, MSW, and Donald W. Kemper, MPH

  Baby Boomers have always done it their way. They book their own travel, manage their investments, and buy their movie tickets—often online. Give Baby Boomers what they need to master their complex health issues: personalized, interactive multimedia tools, including virtual coaching. Read the “gray” paper from Healthwise (a play on words for the traditional white paper).
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• How the Baby Boomers Can Help Save Health Care
  

  Molly Mettler, MSW, and Donald W. Kemper, MPH

  Boomers will dramatically affect the health care crisis. For better or worse depends on whether they are equipped with the tools and information to master their complex health issues. Read the “gray” paper from Healthwise (a play on words for the traditional white paper).
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• The Healthwise^® Ix^® Solution
  

  Donald W. Kemper, MPH

  The cool factor has arrived in consumer health information. This next evolution of Information Therapy (Ix) engages people at an entirely new level to help them make better health decisions. Introducing: The Healthwise Ix Solution, featuring Ix HealthMastery Campaigns and the Ix Coach.
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• When Books Are Best: "Print-to-Web" Self-Care Books Provide New Value in an e-Health World
  

  Donald W. Kemper, MPH

  Without print, too many people are left without the information they need to make better health decisions. Read When Books are Best, by Donald W. Kemper, MPH, to learn how "Print-to-Web" self-care books can provide new value to your employees, health plan members, or patients in an e-health world.
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• 12 Essential Strategies of Highly Effective Hospitals: The Information Therapy (Ix^®) Plan
  

  Don Kemper

  Learn how informed patients can help improve care quality, increase satisfaction ratings, and bolster your bottom line. Ix Strategy #1: printed patient instructions that have Go to Web connections to additional information on your Web site.
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• It's a Jungle Out There: How Information Therapy Can Tame the Forces of Pay for Performance and Consumer-Directed Care
  

  Donald W. Kemper, MPH

  Read how the pay-for-performance and consumerism environment may seem like a jungle to hospitals. Learn how hospitals can respond with information therapy to improve the quality of care and increase satisfaction.
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• Predictive Modeling and Information Therapy: Prescribing the Information That Will Help Each Patient Improve Health and Reduce Costs
  

  Donald W. Kemper, MPH, and Steven Schneider, MD

  Extend the reach of disease management. Predictive models that deliver information prescriptions can help you reach more of your members. Learn how this low-cost, high-value intervention improves outcomes and reduces the cost of care.
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• Brightening the Dark Side of Consumer-Directed Care
  

  Donald W. Kemper, MPH, and Molly Mettler, MSW

  Consumer-directed health care: bright idea or dark force? Read how it might be possible to find common ground through restructuring of the system and providing information therapy.
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