Jones & Bartlett Learning Health Technology Literacy: A: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Consumer-Oriented Practice

Health Technology Literacy: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Consumer-Oriented Practice examines the wide range of resources used by health consumers to inform and support their decisions around their own health care. Today’s health consumer is self-monitoring, building supportive social networks online or via cell phone, and engaging in treatment using interactive programs online, on CD or related media. Using evidence-based practice and relevant theories, this unique text analyzes the trend for health care systems to be reactive, while consumers are proactively seeking the health care information they feel they deserve. About the Author Maryalice Jordan-Marsh, PhD, RN, MS Nursing, MS is a nurse psychologist currently leading the nurse social work practitioner program and case management option at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is co-investigator for Robert Wood Johnson funded game to increase physical activity for adults by monitoring and social networking. She is a games research and development collaborator in the Humana Emerging Technology Applications Innovation Center. She was a visiting professor in health technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during a recent sabbatical. She developed a course on Innovations in Health Technology for the Human Services Professions at the USC School of Social Work and collaborated with Marientina Gotsis from the USC School of Cinema Interactive Media Division for an interdisciplinary course--Design of Digital Health games. She is currently collaborating with colleagues in Cinema and Dance for an intergenerational health game that links physical activity, music, social networking and health care system interactions. She has examined intergenerational links specific to healthy lifestyle behaviors in multi-lingual populations. Dr. Jordan-Marsh is a co-investigator on the NIH funded grant: Personal Activity Patterns in Ethnically Diverse Elders which is designed to increase healthy occupations. She has served as the director of the USC Intergenerational Health Research Team―involving older adults and community collaboration for research and curriculum innovation. She was a consultant for Cybercafé based in a senior center with multilingual population. She coordinated the initiative for Geroengineering at USC which was a collaboration between Engineering, Gerontology, Computer Science, and Nursing. She was an invited participant in the multi-year Institute on the Psychology of Aging sponsored by the National Institute of Aging (National Institutes of Health) and the American Psychological Association. Dr. Jordan-Marsh has served as an Assistant Dean at the University of California Los Angeles and the Associate Chair of the University of Southern California Department of Nursing. She was formerly the director of the Nurse Practitioner program in Occupational Health at the University of California Los Angeles, and the chair of the Primary Care program at UCLA. She has served as the director of nursing research and quality assurance at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center where she was the Co-director of a million dollar program funded by Robert Wood Johnson to build an experience of community to improve patient care. She has served as a reviewer and expert for the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research. She was elected to the American Academy of Nursing as a fellow following her innovative work on the Pew/RWJ Strengthening Hospital Nursing Program. Dr. Jordan-Marsh earned her PhD in Psychological Studies in Education at the University of California. Los Angeles. She has a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned a master’s degree in nursing from the California State University Long Beach and a master’s degree in human development from the University of Oregon, Eugene.