HxRefactored is focused on improving health experiences through technology and design. This year in Boston, Health 2.0 is hosting a pre-conference Code-A-Thon to encourage the development of new technology tools to improve the healthcare space and lower health care costs.
Developers, designers, health care professionals, biz dev and entrepreneurs will join forces for 2 days of rapid prototyping and creative health-hacking. Participants come for data, direction, diverse collaborators, delicious food, and prizes, and potentially, the beginning of a product or even their next big venture.
Don’t miss out on this great way to meet other innovators and hone your skills for a chance to win cash prizes. Winners from previous Health 2.0 Code-A-Thons have gone on to raise funding, start businesses, receive grants, pilot their technologies and even acquire customers.
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SPONSORED BY: ALLSCRIPTS, VALIDIC, POKITDOK
HxRefactored is focused on improving health experiences through technology and design. This year in Boston, Health 2.0 is hosting a pre-conference Code-A-Thon to encourage the development of new technology tools to improve the healthcare space and lower health care costs.
Developers, designers, health care professionals, biz dev and entrepreneurs will join forces for 2 days of rapid prototyping and creative health-hacking. Participants come for data, direction, diverse collaborators, delicious food, and prizes, and potentially, the beginning of a product or even their next big venture.
Don’t miss out on this great way to meet other innovators and hone your skills for a chance to win cash prizes. Winners from previous Health 2.0 Code-A-Thons have gone on to raise funding, start businesses, receive grants, pilot their technologies and even acquire customers.
Register now!
It’s very easy for User Experience researchers to get stuck in the rut of using your favorite research methods for gathering information and getting user feedback. But, are you really gathering the best information that you can? Or are there other methods that are better suited for your project’s specific needs?
Or, if you’re just starting out – how do you know whether you should conduct interviews, run a survey or a card sort, or something different all together?
Don’t stress – we’ll walk you through the process of clarifying your research goals to make sure that you focus on the right problems. Then we’ll discuss several methods for initial information gathering – ethnography, interviews, surveys, diary studies, collaging, card-sorting, and focus groups, along with their strengths and weaknesses and what situations they are best suited for. You’ll work with other participants on several exercises along the way. We’ll wrap up the day with a structured method to help you select the best methods and a final, overarching exercise.
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Before you can build any new service, you must clearly envision the user experience and be able to clearly translate the meaning and intent behind every interaction. But that experience will always fall short if you don’t have a clear understanding of your system capabilities and infrastructure limitations. In this workshop, we’ll learn how journey maps and service blueprints can help us collaborate to define a vision, diagram the story of the solution and evaluate the impact of change.
Register now!Playing games is the prototypical example for an intrinsically motivating activity, and motivation in health care is a pivotal issue. Each year, billions of dollars are spent to move our behaviors in a healthier direction to avert crises such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other costly and painful afflictions. Leveraging motivational dynamics in gameplay to energize and sustain people through behavior change is a challenging yet, profound, solution.
Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn the mechanics of clinically tested behavior change interventions as well as the techniques game designers use to motivate, engage, and reward players through a game’s life cycle. A practical, step-by-step methodology will be introduced and built upon throughout the session, resulting in a scalable framework and process for designing playful and practical behavior change games.
Upon completion of the workshop, participant teams will have designed (and pitched) structured behavior change games, collaboratively learning how to craft game objectives that facilitate change, proper goal-setting, optimal challenge and reward patterns, feedback loops and skill cycles, leveraging social influence and community dynamics, applying metaphor and theme, breakthrough brainstorming, game balancing and play-testing techniques.
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Dr. Mehta received his BA in Biology from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MD from University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at University of Illinois-Chicago Hospital. He completed a clinical research fellowship in complementary and integrative medicine at the Harvard Medical School Osher Research Center (now based at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Division of General Medicine), during which he received a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.
He is presently the Medical Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Director of Education for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His educational and research interests include curricular development in complementary and integrative medical therapies, mind/body educational interventions in health professions training, and promotion of professionalism in medical trainees. He directs medical student and resident rotational experiences in integrative medicine for BHI-MGH and the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Mehta sees patients in a consultative role for use of complementary and integrative medical therapies, as well as mind/body interventions for stress management and stress reduction.
Dr. Mehta is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also active in the Massachusetts Medical Society, and is a member of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Mehta is a diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, and has completed professional training in mindfulness-based stress reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
HxRefactored wouldn't be a health conference if we didn't practice what we preach. We are bringing movement and dance to the HxRefactored stage! Robin Zander (Design for Dance, Stanford) and Amy Li (Dance4Healing) will be incorporating opportunities to move throughout the event, from stretch breaks between Keynote presentations, to a Dance Workshop during the Kick-Off Reception on April 1st (all levels, low impact). Make sure to bring your fitness tracker!
Grab a drink and join Amy Gleason, COO of CareSync, during the Wednesday night reception as we dive into how user friendly today’s leading digital health products really are. Compete against fellow attendees in the HxRefactored Tech Bake Off, where you will race to finish a task and receive prizes and giveaways from HxRefactored’s generous sponsors! Think you know your way around web design? Step up and play! We will be exploring products from Pokitdok, Walgreens, SmartStones, MediSafe and more in this interactive (and competitive) Tech Bake Off.
This event is open to the public.
The Walking Gallery movement hopes to diversify the source content that is used to create the foundation for patient centered care policy, by infusing art imagery depicting a unique patient history or personal story.
This walking wall of individuals who wear personal patient narrative paintings on their backs is changing minds and opening hearts. They are providing a patient voice, and by doing so, are changing the conversation.
Join us by wearing your Regina Holliday Jacket at HxRefactored and share your story.
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), co-Chair of the national HIT Standards Committee, a member of the Massachusetts State HIT Council, and a practicing Emergency Physician.
As Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3000 doctors, 14000 employees and two million patients.
As Chairman of NEHEN he oversees administrative data exchange in Eastern Massachusetts. As co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee he facilitates the process of electronic standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide.
Julian Treasure is a sought-after and top-rated international speaker. Collectively his five TED talks on various aspects of sound and communication have been viewed an estimated 14 million times.
Julian’s book Sound Business is the seminal work on creating intentional, effective business sound, now in its second edition and also published in Japanese. He has been widely featured as a sound and communication expert in the world’s media, including TIME Magazine; The Economist; The Times; TV and radio in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Netherlands, as well as many international trade and business magazines and websites.
Julian is founder and chairman of The Sound Agency, a UK-based consultancy that asks and answers the question: “How does your brand sound?”. TSA helps clients such as Harrods, Nokia, BP, Marks & Spencer, Helm Bank (Colombia), Waldorf Astoria and many major shopping malls across Europe to grow their business by optimising the sounds they make. The agency specialises in creating effective and appropriate organic soundscapes for branded spaces.
Julian now draws on his 10 years of experience in optimising sound for brands to deliver memorable and transformative keynotes and workshops on personal communication and sound branding. His topics include: the hidden effects of sound and noise on us all; how to improve your conscious listening; how to master powerful speaking (including public speaking); how to optimise sound for a brand or business; and how to design sound environments for health, productivity and better relationships. His talks can transform business communication effectiveness, yet they also profoundly engage audiences at a personal level. The innovative use of sound in his talks makes them visceral and potent experiences that are always very highly rated by delegates.
Julian’s vision is to make the world sound beautiful, by helping individuals to make and receive sound consciously, and companies to discover that good sound is good business – which is fortunately true, as The Sound Agency has shown. TSA has installed innovative generative soundscapes in Harrods’ new Toy Kingdom (winning the Gold Audio Branding Award in 2012 for this work), made the front page of the Wall Street Journal with a crime-reducing urban soundscape in Lancaster, California, and has proved that sound can increase retail sales, customer satisfaction and brand value. The agency is now the undisputed world leader in assessing and transforming sound in shopping malls.
Before The Sound Agency, Julian founded (in 1988), grew and sold (in 2003) leading UK customer magazine publisher TPD Group, during which time he was chairman of the UK’s Association of Publishing Agencies, a director of the Periodical Publishers Association, chairman of PPAinteractive and chairman of the UK government’s Digital Content Forum. In 2002 he received the PPA Chairman’s Award for services to the UK magazine publishing industry.
Julian is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Marketors and a member of the Marketing Society. He is a long-time musician, and remembers with affection his two BBC John Peel sessions (the bands were Transmitters and Missing Presumed Dead) – and playing live to 18 million people on the final of the UK’s X Factor precursor, New Faces. Julian was educated at St Paul’s School, London and at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. His interests include music, sound, golf, technology, and Italy.