Social Media

An Evaluation of an Interactive Social Media Web site for Parents who are Concerned about Immunizing their Children - Final Report

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Beyond traditional advertisements: leveraging Facebook’s social structures for research recruitment.

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Development of an interactive social media tool for parents with concerns about vaccines.

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Informing Consumer Health Information Technology Design: How Patients Use Social Networking Sites - Final Report

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Healthy Teens TXT ME: Information Technology to Change Teen Health Risk Behaviors - Final Report

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Using Social Knowledge Networking (SKN) Technology To Enable Meaningful Use of EHR Technology

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This pilot project will implement a Social Knowledge Networking system to support progress toward “meaningful use” of medication reconciliation technology in an electronic health record.

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September 30, 2016 to September 28, 2018

Informing Consumer Health Information Technology Design: How Patients Use Social Networking Sites

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This study showed that there is a range of how people communicate with their social network, how this information is communicated, the types of health information communicated, and the rationales for the communication.

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April 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015

A mixed methods study of parental vaccine decision making and parent-provider trust.

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An Evaluation of an Interactive Social Media Web site for Parents who are Concerned about Immunizing their Children

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This project built and evaluated an interactive social media Web site devoted to vaccines with a blog, discussion forum, chat room, and an anonymous portal through which parents were able to ask questions.

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September 30, 2010 to September 29, 2013

Healthy Teens TXT ME: Information Technology to Change Teen Health Risk Behaviors

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This project utilized information technology to develop an integrated screening, counseling, and post-visit support system to increase physical activity among adolescents.

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September 30, 2009 to March 31, 2012