HEALTH DATA AND INNOVATION WEEK RETURNS TO CENTER FOR TOTAL HEALTH IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
Over the next week, we will be on site at all of the Health Data…
IREHAB’s Keith Krugh on Physical Therapy and Mobile Health
One of the many terrific interviews we conducted at the Health 2.0 Spring Fling was…
A National Conversation: Improving Access to Healthy Foods
On Tuesday, May 8, 2012, as many of the country’s leading health experts gathered at…
A Chat with Fooducate’s Hemi Weingarten at Health 2.0 Spring Fling
The Center for Total Health Blog was in Boston this week for Health 2.0’s Spring…
Weight of the Nation: Premieres Tonight (Plus a Few Minutes with Preston Maring, MD)
It’s finally here: Tonight, The Weight of the Nation premieres on HBO. Parts one and…
A Few Minutes with IOM’s Harvey Fineberg at DC Screening of Weight of the Nation
Last week, 600 people attended the Washington, D.C., screening of The Weight of the Nation,…
Community Commons Seeks to Advance the Movement Toward Building Healthy, Sustainable Communities
There’s a movement afoot to build more sustainable, livable, healthy communities. It is a movement…
Obesity Prevention and Treatment in Focus at Oakland Screening of HBO Doc Weight of the Nation
Last night, a Northern California screening of HBO's documentary, The Weight of the Nation, was…
HBO Documentary Weight of the Nation Previews in Colorado
Launching one of the nation’s largest public health campaigns on obesity to date, HBO has…
Healthier Hospitals Initiative Seeks to Boost Health Care Sustainability
Hospitals take care of sick people, but they can also work to heal the environment.…
In DC this Week: It’s All About Health
This week, Washington, D.C. is hosting two meetings focused on health: TEDMED, of course, is…
Using Theater to Improve Childhood Literacy and Lifelong Health
Gerry Farrell Children’s early acquisition of language is a strong predictor of overall development, including …
The Link Between Early Childhood Literacy and Health
More than 500 grantmakers gathered March 7 - 9 at the annual Grantmakers in Health…
Transforming Care Delivery through Video Ethnography: A Conversation with Estee Neuwirth, PhD
We at the Center for Total Health blog are fascinated by the work made possible…
Using Video Ethnography to Improve Quality of Care
Are you familiar with the practice of video ethnography? It is the use of interviews…
The Impact of the Health Care Sector on our Environment
It is understood that health care activities as a whole contribute 8 percent of the…
The Health Care Blog’s Matthew Holt Talks About the Future of Health IT — and a Favorite App
While at HIMSS, the CTH blog had the great opportunity to talk with Matthew Holt,…
Terhilda Garrido on Health IT Transforming Care Delivery: HIMSS 2012
Terhilda Garrido, vice president of HIT Transformation/Analytics with Kaiser Permanente, spent time at the HIMSS12…
More from HIMSS12: A Few Minutes with Dick Daniels
Dick Daniels, senior vice president of shared services for Kaiser Permanente, stopped by the Kaiser…
HIMSS12: A Chat with Brian Gardner from Kaiser Permanente’s Mobility Center of Excellence
Brian Gardner, principal program manager with the Mobility Center of Excellence at Kaiser Permanente, sat…
Follow Our Tweets at HIMSS
There continues to be a lot of great activity at HIMSS and the KP booth.…
Michael Cross Talks Mobile Health at HIMSS12
At the first full day of HIMSS12, the Center for Total Health blog spoke briefly…
Every Body Walks! Especially at HIMSS12
Excited to report that in the first 90 minutes of the exhibit hall opening, 500…
First Live Post from HIMSS12
The exhibit hall doors opened 45 minutes ago, and the crush of people has been…
Care Connectivity Consortium: Learn More at HIMSS This Week
Today, we finish our preview of the Care Connectivity Consortium. These final two videos provide…
Destination HIMSS: More on Care Connectivity Consortium
We continue our exploration of the Care Connectivity Consortium -- a collaboration of five health…
Coming Soon to HIMSS 2012: Care Connectivity Consortium
In April 2011, Geisinger Health System, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare and Group Health…
From the Childhood Obesity Summit, One-on-One Interviews with Loel Solomon and Leon Andrews
Today, we have more video from the Childhood Obesity Summit held by Partnership for a…
Partnership for a Healthier America — Highlights from First-Ever Childhood Obesity Summit
In November, the inaugural Partnership for a Healthier America Childhood Obesity Summit was held in…
A Clinic for Women with HIV
Adding to our videos from the launch of the HIV Challenge last week, we have…
More from the HIV Challenge
Another great video from the folks behind the HIV Challenge. For more, visit the official…
Disparities in HIV Care
Another video about the HIV Challenge, this one on addressing disparities in HIV care. For…
Take the HIV Challenge
With 56,000 people infected each year and more than 1.1 million Americans living with the…
Mobile Technology and Health
From a very young age we’re taught that “small” can make a big impact—“The Lion…
Making our Health Care Environments Healthier
We talk a lot about healthy environments on this blog, and one important aspect of…
Kaiser Permanente’s John Edmiston on Community Service and Health
Eight years ago, Kaiser Permanente established an annual day of service on Martin Luther King,…
Service and Health: A Q&A with Christine Carter, Ph.D.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What…
Health Care Reform and Access to Care
The year 2012 will be an important step for health care reform, as it moves…
To a Healthy New Year
As so many of us begin 2012 with resolutions for improving our health, let’s not…
2011 in Review: More on Transitions in Care
Our look back at 2011 continues with today's post featuring a video interview from October's…
2011 in Review: Raymond Baxter from the Kids & Walking Forum
In today's flashback on our coverage of 2011 programs, we have a video interview with…
2011 in Review: One-on-One Interviews on Hypertension & Heart Health
Continuing our "year in review" highlights of programs and content since this blog's launch earlier…
2011 in Review: Murray Ross on Non-Communicable Diseases
As 2011 comes to a close, we are revisiting some of the events, programs and…
A Conversation with Nikki Henderson of People’s Grocery, Part 2
Our conversation with Nikki Henderson, executive director of People's Grocery, continues. In this excerpt,…
A Conversation with Nikki Henderson of People’s Grocery
In today's post, we are getting to know People's Grocery -- a nonprofit…
Talking with e-Patient Dave, Part 2
In part two of our conversation with Dave deBronkart, we talk about listening to patients…
A Conversation with e-Patient Dave deBronkart
From our last post, you know Dave deBronkart – who he is, what he’s been…
The Power of Doctor-Patient Collaboration
Today, we introduce you to Dave deBronkart -- also known as e-Patient Dave. Diagnosed with…
More from IHI: Safety Net Physicians Speak
Continuing our posts from the annual IHI meeting taking place this week in Orlando, Fla.,…
From IHI’s Annual Meeting: Maureen Bisognano and Winston Wong on the U.S. Safety Net System
Nearly 6,000 health care professionals from around the world and thousands more via satellite broadcast…
On the 30th World AIDS Day: Caregivers Reflect
In honor of the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day, six Kaiser Permanente clinicians and…
Breastfeeding: A Commitment of Support
Today in Washington, D.C., Kaiser Permanente signed on to join Partnership for a Healthier America…
Transforming a Food Desert into an Oasis
Another aspect of food insecurity, which we continue to examine this week, is the existence…
Thanksgiving Week Q&A on Food Access and Security
Continuing our focus on food security and access, we have a Q&A with Arnell Hinkle,…
For Thanksgiving: A Conversation About Food Security
This week, as many people prepare to celebrate abundance on the Thanksgiving holiday, we felt…
Leading Health Organizations and Patient Groups Share Best Practices for Osteoporosis and Fracture Prevention
More than 100 people attended a first-ever best practices sharing event Monday at the Center…
More on Technology as a Tool to Enable Better Health and Health Care
Today, we continue the conversation between Philip Fasano, executive vice president and chief information officer…
Technology as a Tool to Enable Better Health and Health Care
Today's post is part of our series of conversations recorded with the help of the…
Well-Being Explored at the Center for Total Health
How will a person’s sense of well-being change in the future? And how can playing…
Fast Food Nation Author Eric Schlosser Talks About Connections Between Food and Health
Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, believes physicians and others in health care can…
Organic Peach Farmer/Author David Mas Masumoto on Food’s Links to Community, Sustainability, Tradition
California organic peach farmer David Mas Masumoto was one of many leaders in sustainable food…
More on HealthCamp
In these final two segments of a four-part series, Mark Scrimshire and Danielle Cass talk…
What’s HealthCamp?
Today’s post is all about empowered engagement in health – which is the precisely the…
Raising Breast Cancer Awareness, One Stamp at a Time
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we want to introduce you to Ernie Bodai,…
More on Transitions in Care: Video Interview with Scott Young, MD
This, our second blog post about the “Putting the IT in Care Transitions” meeting held…
Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief for Health Affairs, Talks about Transitions in Care
Health care providers, innovators, policy and health IT experts, government agencies and technology companies gathered…
Domestic Violence Awareness: Be Informed
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the statistics are sobering: In the United…
Study: Most Seniors Unfamiliar with Medicare Star Quality Ratings
Yesterday, Kaiser Permanente released findings from a study it commissioned that showed surprisingly low awareness…
Healthy Communities: Making an Impact
Today, we have the final podcast in a three-part conversation between Kaiser Permanente's Raymond J.…
George Halvorson on Walking
This week, schools across the United States celebrated International Walk to School Day. It’s an…
Challenges to Building a Healthy Community
In this second podcast in a series of three, Kaiser Permanente's Raymond J. Baxter, PhD,…
What Makes a Community Healthy?
Today's post is the first in a series of three podcasts on the topic of…
Kids and Walking: Video Highlights
Closing out our coverage of Every Body Walk! Week and its events, several panel-driven summits,…
Walking and the Community: Even More from the Walking Summit
We close out our video highlights of last week’s Walking Summit with this video featuring…
Walking and Chronic Conditions: More from the Walking Summit
For more highlights from the September 20 Walking Summit that was held at the Center…
Mall Walking: Healthy, Social and Safe
This week, the Every Body Walk! campaign spent time with folks who have found their…
Transcription Available: 09/23 Kids and Walking Forum
It was a fantastic event today -- one panel focused on economics and walking, and…
Friday, September 23 Live Coverage: Kids and Walking Forum
Every Body Walk! Week comes to a close Friday with a forum on Kids and…
Walking, Health and “Smokadiabesity”
We have more highlights from the September 20 Walking Summit held at the Center for…
Highlights: Every Body Walk! Week Walking Summit
This week, the Every Body Walk! campaign is hosting a series of activities and events…