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		<title>Dividing the Diabetic population into Personas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote a BLOG entry about personas and their usefulness in User Centric Design. [LINK] Personas are fictitious characters that represent segments of the target population. A persona has the following characteristics: (per usability.gov [LINK])

a name and picture 
demographics (age, education, ethnicity, family status) 
job title and major responsibilities 
goals and tasks in relation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehitblog.com/2010/01/dividing-the-diabetic-population-into-personas/</link>
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		<title>How to manage chronic diseases by changing human behavior.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our country, patients are the most under-utilized resource, and they have the most at stake. They want to be involved and they can be involved. Their participation will lead to better medical outcomes at lower costs with dramatically higher patient/customer satisfaction.
Charles Safran, M.D., Former President, American Medical Informatics Association, speaking to Congress in 2004

Behavioral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehitblog.com/2009/12/how-to-manage-chronic-diseases-by-changing-human-behavior/</link>
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		<title>Reduce Healthcare Spend: Focus: Chronic Diseases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behavior aligns with incentives. If a salesman’s pay is tied to new sales, they will seek new sales. If car mechanics are paid by the hour, they will work slowly, not rushing to get their job done quickly – pay them by the job and they will rush, perhaps too much. This rule holds in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehitblog.com/2009/11/healthcare-spend-chronic-diseases/</link>
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		<title>Modern Medicine is in a state of technical antiquity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past week I’ve interacted with our healthcare system in 2 ways:

Drug test for a new employer at Quest Diagnostics 
Internal Medicine Appointment (Nashville, TN) 

I’ve begun to realize just how far we HITmen have to go.
Question Diagnostics:
 
Though much work has been done by Quest to modernize their offering – integrating with Google [...]]]></description>
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