Health advocacy technology and its applications

Health Technology Advocacy

The greatly expanded possibilities that are allowed by technology in today's world, has provided a tool for professionals in the health care industry to greatly expand their effectiveness and efficiency. The internet and all the sub-technologies that have spawned from this development are central in any application of modern day communication technology.

Specifically, the use of social media, via smartphone technology can be used to combat the greatest threat to collective health. The extraordinary lack of preventative health measures are at the root cause of the exploding costs and energies dedicated to health care in today's confusing and complex approaches to taking care of both our minds and bodies. While some attention is paid to diet, exercise and hygiene, mental hygiene is often ignored as a preventative measure to good behavior, good choices, which leads to good health.

The constant bombardment of information thorough social media through smart phone technology has presented new challenges to the mental and emotional states of those who use these devices. To use this technology efficiently, an advocacy campaign dedicated to the practice of good mental hygiene should be utilized and exploited. The importance of emotional well being cannot be undervalued in the process that dictate the bodily health of that same person. As the mind goes, so does the body.

Advocacy for strong emotional health may be delivered through the written word, art, music and other types of expression that allow the mind to heal and cleanse itself of unnecessary clutter. Messages and smart phone apps can be designed and implemented to support a campaign that promotes this approach to healing. Coupled with the great clinical and technological advances within the medical field, an emotional healing effort can really add a new level of effectiveness to the ideas behind health care.

Discussion 2

The job chosen for this discussion was found on the internet job site Indeed. The job itself was posted by the Law Firm Arnold & Porter LLP. The position within the public health policy field is titled Health Policy Advisor and is located in Washington D.C.. The opening is for the law firm's legal support services branch of their organization.

The career opportunity describes the position as executing activities that relate to the cases the firm is representing. This specifically includes people and organizations with pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare public policy needs in the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government. This is more a less a lobbying position.

The responsibilities of this job include communicating policy to the clients, preparing healthcare policy issues, attending Congressional hearings, preparing writings and developing ideas to persuade those who need to be persuaded.

In order to be successful in this position, the skill and art of relationship building seems very essential. A strong knowledge base about the specific issues the law firm may be dealing with can add the needed levels of confidence in order to be successful within those relationships and providing persuasive and convincing arguments to sway opinion to the desired direction.