Let's Talk eHealth

Building Smarter Systems with Behavioural Psychology

Let's Talk eHealth

Show Notes

In this week's episode, we explore how eHealth NSW uses behavioral psychology in digital health to build systems that are aligned to people's behaviour, needs, goals and motivations. In this episode, we are joined by Jarrah Watkinson and Loletta Cheng, both User Insights Specialists at eHealth NSW, and psychologists with a background in organisational psychology.

About eHealth NSW: eHealth NSW uses information technology to connect people, data and systems to improve patient-centred care in NSW. We partner with health agencies and industry to provide a digitally enabled and integrated health system for patients, clinicians and the NSW community. For more information visit our website: www.ehealth.nsw.gov.au

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