Reaching Women Through Health IT: Introducing Gabby | HealthWorks Collective

This type of social media tool doesn’t replace physicians, nurses and other clinicians.  Instead it facilitates:

women having the opportunity to hear the information multiple times in order to aid with comprehensionculturally relevant, familiar and viable delivery of a health risk assessment and interventionsthe time of interaction and pace driven by participantevidence-based, closed-loop communicationswomen preparing for appointments with their providerreinforcement of  information discussed during a clinical encounterwomen preparing themselves for a pregnancy and knowing what actions they need to take to improve their health and reduce risks to their child