Posts Tagged ‘incentives’

Motivating Behavior Change: Where the rubber hits the road in health care and sustainability

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

The panel at this morning’s conference entitled Sustainability: Don’t Market to Key Audiences- Motivate Them! was amazing. Panelists, whose work focuses on sustainability, shared lots of interesting details about what works and why.

Sustainability and health care on parallel tracks

For me, the biggest takeaway was that sustainability professionals face the same challenge that is starting to top the list at health care institutions.  That is, motivating lots of individuals to change their behavior.

In health care, the focus is on motivating patients to comply with their treatment plans.  In sustainability, it means motivating employees to make lots of small changes such as re-using and recycling both at work, and at home.

Health information technology: successes, challenges, next steps

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

By Barbara Bix

Massachusetts Governor Patrick’s conference on health information technology, entitled “Improving Health Care and the Economy“, began yesterday in Worcester, MA.  Dr. Blumenthal kicked off the conference citing achievements at the federal level and congratulating Massachusetts for being the first state to attain provider targets.

A down payment on health care reform

Quoting President Obama, Dr. Blumenthal told an audience of several hundred that health information technology, while important, is just the down payment on health care reform.  More important, he said are the aspirations of change we plan to achieve as a country.