Supporting Behavior Change and Enabling Patient Self-Management Through Technology

DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINARTitle: "Supporting Behavior Change and Enabling Patient Self-Management Through Technology"Speaker: Neal Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DPS Health, Los Angeles, CaliforniaABSTRACT: This seminar will give an overview of how Information Technology can help clinicians provide cost-effective approaches to enable patients to adopt and sustain health promoting behaviors. Neal Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., UCLA Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, will describe the key components and functionalities needed for clinically-linked Technology Enabled Behavior Change Interventions to be successful. He will describe how these approaches, based on how master clinicians support patients, fit into healthcare and public health approaches. Dr. Kaufman will describe a state-of-art internet-based platform he and his team created that when coupled with research proven behavior change protocols creates effective and scalable interventions….all designed to mimic the best approaches used by master clinicians/communicators. The approach allows web-based management and support for the patient, the coach (clinician), the administrator/quality assurance person and individuals supporting the patient (e.g. friends, family, co-workers). It also allows a complete and time based behavioral intervention to be customized based on the individual's personal characteristics, performance over time and time on the intervention.He will demonstrate an innovative approach to weight management based on the NIH's Diabetes Prevention Program, which his company created in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh.WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008, ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY ROOM 309, 12:00-1:30 PM****************************************BIO: Dr. Kaufman is Co-Founder of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, and Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, after a 27 year career in academic medicine and public health, Dr. Kaufman left Pediatrics and founded DPS Health to create technology solutions that enable clinicians to help their patients adopt and sustain health promoting behaviors.

Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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