TECHNOLOGY:
The Road Ahead for Wellness |
It is now the year 2000, wellness has jumped into the new millennium.
or ......
Year 2000 and Beyond:
How do we deal with the massive information overload?
What about the people we serve?
Bill Hettler,MD
Thursday July 20th, 2000
National Wellness
Conference
Bill's Keynote Address
from Tuesday, July 18th, 2000
The
evolution of educational process and opportunity.
Wellness
promotion exists within an educational context |
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Yak-In-A-Box
Educator in the front, you take notes from what
they say and from what they write on the blackboard.
Order and sequence of the presentation is educator determined.
You had to be close enough to see the blackboard.
Class is time and space fixed.
Mostly
absorption learning.
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Outlines
& PowerPoint
Educator in the front, you take notes from
what they say and from their handouts, overheads, and slides.
Order
and sequence of the presentation is educator determined.
The room could be bigger, based on the image magnification of
the projectors.
Class
is time and space fixed.
Mostly absorption learning.
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WEB
BASED "Hyper-text
& Hyper-linked" Multimedia
Educator may be in a different continent.
You may return to any content at will, save it to disk, link
to original sources, videos, assessments, chat with world wide
participants.
You select the order and sequence of the learning.
Class is asynchronous, you determine time for participation.
Learning can be more active. You feel more in control.
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Bill Hettler, MD
Father of 6 unique people
Director University Health Service at the
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point since 1977
University Health Service Urgent Care Physician, 28 years
Software developer and technology consultant
Adjunct Professor, UW-Madison Family Practice Program; Physician's Assistant Program
Adjunct Professor, UW-Stevens Point School of Health Promotion and Human
Development
Biases acknowledged
I am a Co-Founder of the National Wellness Institute
I am an advocate for physician directed self-care (I assist patients, I do not own them)
I am future-focused
I consider the audience to be creators of the future
I believe that clients, customers, patients and their families will increasingly arrive at our offices better
prepared to be
partners in the management of their health and well being
I tend to be an eternal optimist. "Don't tell me what you can't do, tell me what you
can do!"
I try to follow the advice of true heros.
Goal for this session
List possible technology enhancements of use by wellness professionals.
Explore a few of the possible uses of technology available through the Internet
Review some of the innovative or most popular sites found to be helpful for wellness
professionals.
Lead Questions
Frequency of your current e-mail use?
None
Less than once a week
Weekly
2 to 3 times a week
Daily
Several times a day
I am in a twelve step e-mail recovery program
As you arrive at your office, a staff member tells you that the a client you are to see
at
3 o'clock called to let you know that she has Lodi-Abernathy syndrome.
What would you do to prepare for that visit?
Internet 101
We have entered the digital age. Are you thinking digital yet?
Banks, airline reservations, gas stations, and even occasional lab results
Who funds the Internet? How reliable is the information? Sources of revenue include:
taxes, dues, advertising
Client centered information is the appeal of the Internet
Netizens
e-mail etiquette
User Friendliness
Streaming Video
Translation to other languages
Handicap accessible web pages
Readability (greatest challenge is
writing for the reading ability of the intended audience)
Active Internet Resources (you guide the resource acquisition)
Digital References Online and CD-ROM based materials
Textbooks
Journals
Practice
Guidelines
Patient Education
Materials
See some of the awards KidsHealth.org has won
Search Engines
(substitute Programs or Utilities for the word Engines)
Finding Specific People
Finding Specific Places
This
Building from outer space.
Decision Support Systems
MD's ask the expert services, topic or specialty based
Patient/Provider partnership systems e.g., HealthWise
Knowledgebase TM
Passive Electronic Resource Acquisition
e-newsletters
Maternal and Child Health
AAP
Listserves
AAP Listserve
AAP Key Contact e-mail system
Health Policy HEALTHPOL@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Health Promotion (College Health) hlthprom@relay.doit.wisc.edu
TAGFAM (Gifted and Talented) TAGFAM@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Commercial clip services
San Jose Mercury News
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National Wellness Institute
Industry specific services
Physician Specific Services
MD Consult
Clip Service
What patients are reading
Research assistance
Practice Guidelines
Special Interest Groups
On-line
conferences
On-line CME courses
Topic specific chat rooms
The technology of the traditional classroom is 500 years old. The way most of us
have been schooled has been called:
Yak-in-a-Box education.
The knowledge purveyor is in the front expounding facts.
How will you take advantage of the resources on the Internet?
How will you learn what is available?
What is a Portal?
