Designing a Health Coach-Augmented mHealth System for the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease among Women
You're invited to join us for The W. Max Finley Chair in Business, Free Enterprise and Capitalism Seminar Series: Designing a Health Coach-Augmented mHealth System for the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease among Women. This seminar is presented by Dr. Kaushik Dutta, Muma College of Business, University of South Florida.
Enjoy lunch and a presentation by Dr. Dutta on Thursday, Feb. 21 in the first W. Max Finley Chair Seminar Series of the spring semester. This seminar and lunch are provided free of charge. Space is limited, so please RSVP below.
About the Event:
Coronary heart disease (CHD) afflicts 7 million American women annually and is one of the most prominent causes of death and disability. While the female population of patients requiring cardiac rehabilitation continues to expand, a lack of access and other barriers to center based cardiac rehabilitation presents a huge challenge. A mobile phone-based technological system can offer a home-based secondary prevention of CHD. It can help patients self-manage their chronic conditions through changing unhealthy behaviors. We designed a gender-specific digital health intervention system for use in a home-based cardiac rehabilitation program that incorporated multiple theory-based behavior change interventions. With the design and development of three unique artifacts, the proposed system combines human-expert intelligence with machine intelligence in a manner, which enhances the decision making capability of a health coach. We evaluated our high fidelity prototype of the system with six women participants with CHD through a field test over a time period spanning 12 weeks.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Kaushik Dutta is an Associate Professor, Associate Chair and Muma Fellow at the Information Systems Department, Muma College of Business, University of South Florida. He is also the Academic Director for the MS in Business Analytics and Information Systems and Weekend Executive MS in Business Analytics and Information Systems program. Kaushik Dutta has 22 years of professional and research experience in the field of enterprise IT infrastructure, data analytics and big data systems. Dutta’s current research interest is data analytics in the area of mobile advertisement and healthcare. Before joining USF, Dutta was a tenured associate professor at the National University of Singapore and Florida International University. Before starting his academic path, he pursued a career in engineering, most recently as the chief technology officer and vice president of engineering of Mobilewalla, an NUS-incubated and Madrona-funded company that developed big data based mobile advertisement platforms.