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MABLE B. KINZIE
- Monitor progress for dietary and exercise goals, and
- Recognize the patterns between these factors.
� Health Heritage
Cohn, W. F., Ropka, M., Kinzie, M., Barrett, J., Pelletier, S., Guterbock, T., &
Knaus, W. A. (1999-2001). Health Heritage.
http://healthheritage.ddig.com/trial/index.cfm
A detailed family health history is thought to be one of the most potentially
useful tools in diagnosis and risk assessment. Primary providers recognize the
value of this information, but routinely struggle to collect and document it, and
are sometimes ill-equipped to interpret what a patient’s family health history
suggests, for behavior change recommendations and for additional screening.
Health Heritage is a web-based tool that guides individuals in collection of their
own family health history collection and management. Research-based
algorithms evaluate this history for the patient's risk for 89 diseases and
conditions, and related recommendations (care, behavior change, screening,
etc) can be sent to their provider and on to the patient. Through a randomized
trial with 109 volunteers, we found that Health Heritage identified 60% of the
elevated risk conditions at greater levels of sensitivity, significantly
outperforming Usual Care at 24%.
I was responsible for the needs assessment, design, and development of the
Health Heritage website. Two publications and nine conference presentations
resulted, as has continued grant-funded research with this intervention
(including automated health history collection through interface with medical
records systems).
� The Healthy Touch
Schorling, J., Kinzie, M.B., & Siegel, M. (1989-1991). The Healthy Touch.
Prenatal alcohol use has been a major cause of birth defects and other adverse
outcomes of pregnancy. Educating expectant mothers concerning the need to
limit alcohol consumption has been advocated as a method to decrease alcoholrelated
birth problems, however providing this service for low-income women
has proven difficult. In response, I directed the needs assessment, user
interface design, and instructional strategies specification for this computerbased
educational program, intended to address user knowledge, beliefs, and
attitudes, in order to limit alcohol consumption during pregnancy. When
implemented in public health clinics, the program was well-accepted by
patients, found to provide new information, and to significantly influence
behavioral intention.
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