HXRefactored Conference

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APRIL 8, 2016 | BOSTON, MA

Featuring a closing keynote this year by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, the HXRefactored conference focuses on improving health experiences through technology and design. Gathering more than 600 cross-disciplinary thinkers and practitioners and through an inspired mix of thought-provoking talks, workshops, and discussions, HxRefactored applies design, science, evidence, and theory to re-imagine the entire health journey, and find new ways to deliver that vision.
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Medical Avatar CEO Virgil Wong presented in Behavior Change Design, moderated by Dustin DiTommaso, Senior Vice President at Mad*Pow. Wong discussed time travel visualization technologies in transforming health behaviors through applications of the self-reference effect, the Proteus effect, and futuristic episodic thinking from the health psychology literature. He also shared Medical Avatar’s community health and corporate wellness programs alongside their impressive performance in the four “RRRRs”: Reach, Retention, Results, and ROI.
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Medical Avatar “Leading a New Era of Discovery” at Mount Sinai’s SINAInnovations Conference

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Medical Avatar at SINAInnovations 2014

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The SINAInnovations 2014 Live Webcast

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(New York, NY – November 18, 2014) The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is hosting its third annual SINAInnovations conference. This year’s theme “Engineering and Medicine” includes keynote addresses, short talks, lunchtime breakout sessions and demos in areas focusing on breakthroughs in material science, nanotechnologies and imaging; advances in genomics technologies; mobile application development and wearable technologies; cultivating how medicine and engineering interface and how advances in engineering are transforming medicine, biology and global health.[/vc_column]

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Medical Avatar LLC is a proud exhibitor of the 2014 SINAInnovations conference. Based in New York City, Medical Avatar offers best-in-class mobile health solutions to help payers and providers improve outcomes and reduce the costs of care. Its evidence-based interventions have been demonstrated in published studies to change and significantly improve health behaviors in chronic disease patients.

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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
1468 Madison Avenue, Stern Auditorium
New York, NY 10029
http://icahn.mssm.edu/sinainnovations
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Telehealth & Telecare Aware Highlights Medical Avatar

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New York (November 16, 2013)

Donna Cusano, Editor In Chief of Telehealth & Telecare Aware, wrote about Medical Avatar in her analysis and overview of the 2013 New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) Digital Health Conference.

Her description of CEO Virgil Wong’s main stage presentation, Time Travel Simulations for Transformative Health, reads as follows:

Medical Avatar can best be described as a mashup of art, patient engagement, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Portrait of Dorian Grey. By visualizing the road you shouldn’t travel health-wise, it uses the avatar and an anatomically correct body/parts to project outcomes based on your behavior in order to change it. For smokers, showing osteoporosis, amputations and aging skin can be a convincing revelation. On the positive side, a patient can use it to depict their condition and their symptoms, which are converted into a pictorial representation on the whole body that can aid a doctor in diagnosis. CEO Virgil Wong took us on a short journey through its evolution and also a related study on using visualization in a smoking cessation research study at Columbia University.

The full article can be read online at:
NYeC Digital Health Conference 2013: The Trends

Telehealth & Telecare Aware provides specialized, free news and information service since 2005 to people interested in telecare and telehealth. Its purpose is to help suppliers and service providers around the world keep up to date with what each other are doing.

Thank you, Donna!

Medical Avatar Talks Time Travel and Design at Leading NY Digital Health Conference

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New York (November 15, 2013)

Medical Avatar presented Time Travel Simulations for Transformative Health on Friday, November 15th at the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) Conference, New York’s leading event showcasing practical, innovative, and inspiring advancements in health information technology.

Virgil Wong, CEO of Medical Avatar, demonstrated how 3-D time travel simulations of a patient’s own body can improve health content comprehension, inspire behavior changes, and visually communicate complex symptoms and medical histories. Time travel simulations are helping patients better understand their past medical data and empowering them to make changes in the present to strengthen their chances for a healthier future.

The personalized mental models of patients shape daily health behaviors. These behaviors can reduce the threat of chronic diseases, which account for 70% of deaths annually in the U.S. and more than 75% of the $2.7 trillion cost of healthcare. Good choices patients make day-to-day regarding nutrition, fitness, and stress management can reverse conditions like diabetes and heart disease and support decades of optimal health and well-being.

Also, Katie McCurdy, Medical Avatar’s Chief Patient Experience Officer, will be moderating a panel on Better Healthcare by Design: How Data Visualization, Behavior Change Techniques, and User-Centered Design Can Create Successful Products.

Both presentations generated over a hundred tweets among the health care providers, IT innovators, health leadership, start-ups, hospital officials, group practice managers, investors, and entrepreneurs in attendance.

 

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Showcasing innovation and inspiring change at the New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference

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Virgil Wong, CEO of Medical Avatar, and Katie McCurdy, Chief Patient Experience Officer, will be speaking at the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) Digital Health Conference on November 14-15, 2013 at the Hilton in New York City.

This annual event showcases practical, innovative, and inspiring advancements in health information technology. Medical Avatar will present to 1,200 fellow healthcare professionals as they come together to hear insights, ideas, and analysis from industry thought leaders and to connect with peers in the health IT community.

For more information, please visit:
http://digitalhealthconference.com