Sofia Dupi, Author at Healthy Communities Online

Healthy Tomorrows

July 31, 2012 Sofia Dupi

For the past five years, CHC has run a program called “Healthy Tomorrows” for adolescent girls enrolled in New Britain High School. This program has sought to promote healthy eating and physical activity in individual teen girls through nutritional counseling and YWCA memberships while providing leadership training to make teens powerful advocates for a healthier community for themselves and their families. The program has exceeded its original goals. Last month, a final report was issued on the success of the…

The CHC Mobile Check-in App

July 26, 2012 Sofia Dupi

Staff at CHC take an active role in finding ways to improve patient experiences, including something as seemingly simple as just checking in. Last year, our technology team introduced Patient Kiosks. We are using kiosks at more and more of our sites to make it quicker and simpler to check-in when a patient arrives for an appointment. Some of the underlying technology from our patient kiosks can be securely used to build a mobile check-in App, a first for a community health…

Dr. BJ Fogg, Director of the Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University

July 25, 2012 Sofia Dupi

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. BJ Fogg, Director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, and author of Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do. Dr. Fogg discusses how computers can change and motivate people and the potential for mobile health technologies to greatly impact health outcomes.

Taking Leadership in Promoting Interagency Cooperation

July 24, 2012 Sofia Dupi

Part of the mission statement of Community Health Center, Inc. is “The Community Health Center, Inc. takes leadership in promoting interagency cooperation” and this week has started off with a sterling example. Several leaders from the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic in Washington State visited CHC this week to share ideas about best practices in community health. They visited our facilities in Middletown, Meriden and New Britain. They joined in discussions about quality improvement, innovations, technology, residency programs and being…

Dr. Clement Bezold, Chairman of The Institute for Alternative Futures

July 18, 2012 Sofia Dupi

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with futurist Dr. Clement Bezold, co-founder and Chairman of the Institute for Alternative Futures. Dr. Bezold outlines his report on the future of health care in America, based on long term analysis of the impact of technology, genomics and health care reform.

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber

July 11, 2012 Sofia Dupi

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with physician and Governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber, who discusses the state’s recent two billion dollar federal grant to deploy a program to reduce Medicaid costs using patient centered homes, community health workers, telemedicine and electronic health records.