Texting4Health – a conference
February 8, 2008
Received this via a blog comment; Sounds like another first of its kind like the Health 2.0 Conference.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of eHealth Marketing is cosponsoring the Texting4Health Conference: Using SMS to Motivate Behavior Change with Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab. BJ Fogg, PhD, with Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab, is leading the conference agenda development.
Texting4Health Conference: Using SMS to Motivate Behavior Change
www.texting4health.org
February 28-March 1, 2008
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Friday, February 29, 2008 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
“Texting 4 Health” (the main event)
Over 20 experts in health, behavior change, and mobile technology will share their insights in 10-minute presentations and follow-up panels.
www.texting4health.org/ or contact BJ Fogg at bjfogg@stanford.edu
More Details…
The Texting4Health conference will showcase applications, ideas, insights on the use of mobile text messaging (SMS) in areas of public health such as: early warning systems for communicable disease, smoking cessation, diabetes management, reproductive health, locators for HIV testing, weight management, physical activity, teen health, privacy in
the domain of sexual health information, enhanced patient-doctor relationship via reminders, efficient delivery of laboratory diagnostics, etc.
