--- title: The UbiBlog | Patient Engagement and Value-Based Care Analysis | Jackie Simon description: Simon is a marketing manager at UbiCare. She has more than a decade of experience working in marketing and graphic design and holds both a BS and MFA from Boston University. --- [![logo](https://blog.ubicare.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Ubicare_Image/logo.png?width=250&name=logo.png)](http://www.ubicare.com/) - [Home](https://ubicare.com/) - [About](https://ubicare.com/about-ubicare/) - [Blog](https://blog.ubicare.com/) - [Client Login](https://mobile.ubicare.com) - [Contact Us](https://ubicare.com/contact/) ## Jackie Simon ![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/Blog/Jackie_Simon.jpg) Simon is a marketing manager at UbiCare. She has more than a decade of experience working in marketing and graphic design and holds both a BS and MFA from Boston University. Find me on: ### Recent Posts ## [How Do New Parents Get Reliable Information?](https://blog.ubicare.com/how-do-new-parents-get-reliable-information) Posted by [Jackie Simon](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/jackie-simon) on Sep 27, 2018 2:05:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/GettyImages-816502212.jpg)](https://blog.ubicare.com/how-do-new-parents-get-reliable-information) As the mother of a toddler, recent news headlines about the dangers of baby walkers—and pediatricians’ repeated calls for a ban on them—caught me by surprise. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long recommended against—and unsuccessfully sought a ban on—these walkers. This month, a study in the AAP journal *Pediatrics* has renewed calls for that ban. Still, it was the first I’d heard of the academy’s warnings. And while I never used a walker with my child, I could not recall my doctors advising me not to. It made me wonder how many other new and expectant moms missed the warnings as well. Mostly, it highlighted the need for pediatricians to more effectively communicate with new parents about parenting and child development—and not just during well-child visits in the doctor’s office, when the information provided is too easily forgotten later on. [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/how-do-new-parents-get-reliable-information) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/how-do-new-parents-get-reliable-information#comments-listing) Topics: [Patient Engagement](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-engagement), [Patient Experience](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-experience), [Innovation](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/innovation), [Healthcare Technology](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/healthcare-technology) ## [The Emerging Role of Digital Health Tools in Postpartum Care](https://blog.ubicare.com/the-emerging-role-of-digital-health-tools-in-postpartum-care) Posted by [Jackie Simon](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/jackie-simon) on May 11, 2018 8:35:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/GettyImages-638906122.jpg)](https://blog.ubicare.com/the-emerging-role-of-digital-health-tools-in-postpartum-care)   The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has proposed a shift in the delivery of postpartum care to try to curb increasing maternal mortality rates. In a committee opinion issued this month, ACOG specifically names using technology such as email and text among effective strategies for increasing patient engagement and attendance at postpartum visits. [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/the-emerging-role-of-digital-health-tools-in-postpartum-care) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/the-emerging-role-of-digital-health-tools-in-postpartum-care#comments-listing) Topics: [Improving Patient Outcomes](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/improving-patient-outcomes), [Patient Engagement](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-engagement), [Healthcare Technology](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/healthcare-technology), [Episode of Care](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/episode-of-care) ## [5 Reasons to Rethink Building Your Own Patient Engagement Solution](https://blog.ubicare.com/5-reasons-rethink-building-your-own-patient-engagement-solution) Posted by [Jackie Simon](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/jackie-simon) on Aug 17, 2017 3:02:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/Blog/Ben_Franklin.jpg)](https://blog.ubicare.com/5-reasons-rethink-building-your-own-patient-engagement-solution) *"Why wouldn’t we build our own patient engagement solution in-house?”* It’s a question we hear often enough from hospital and health system marketers that we figured we should blog about it.   While you could, in theory, build a homegrown digital health tool for engaging patients, it makes more sense to choose a company that has been doing this successfully and proving its effectiveness and value for the past 15 years. Such as ... ahem ... [one company I know](http://www.ubicare.com). Here are 5 good reasons why: [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/5-reasons-rethink-building-your-own-patient-engagement-solution) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/5-reasons-rethink-building-your-own-patient-engagement-solution#comments-listing) Topics: [Patient Engagement](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-engagement), [Healthcare Technology](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/healthcare-technology) ## [How Can Hospitals Use Texting to Improve Patient Care?](https://blog.ubicare.com/how-can-hospitals-use-texting-to-improve-patient-care) Posted by [Jackie Simon](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/jackie-simon) on Jan 18, 2017 11:00:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/Blog/patient_in_doctor_office.jpg)](https://blog.ubicare.com/how-can-hospitals-use-texting-to-improve-patient-care) When was the last time you talked to your friend? Your mother? Your old college roommate? Now think—did you actually *talk* to them? In person or on the phone? If you’re like most Americans, you probably conversed with them via text, email or social media. In fact, a recent [Gallup poll](http://www.gallup.com/poll/179288/new-era-communication-americans.aspx) finds that texting and email are the most frequently used forms of non-personal communication for adult Americans. So is a cellphone, because even when we *do* use a phone, it’s typically not a landline, the survey reveals. For all Americans under age 50, the survey finds that texting is the most dominant form of communication. Given these changes in our own everyday interactions, why does the healthcare industry insist on sticking with old forms of communication? #### Healthcare needs to embrace email and text as the preferred and most efficient patient-provider communication methods, just as we have accepted—and really, expected—email and text communication in our daily lives. 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