myHIN Blog

October 22, 2012

INFORMS 2012 - A Scholar’s Prospective

On Tuesday, October 16th, the myHIN research team set forth to Phoenix, AZ for the INFORMS 2012 Annual Meeting. The research scholars discussed “Lessons Learned: Designing an IT Artifact While Creating a Health Experience”. We covered the myHIN social media integration, tracking the social mushroom, and branding the user experience. It was important for us to communicate to the audience what our strategy is for driving this project using social media.

As a Research Scholar, I was extremely excited to be able to share with attendees the hard work our team has put in for the past year to bring this project to life. I have to admit, I was very nervous since this was my first research conference and I’m just an undergraduate student; however, this experience showed me that through this project, our efforts will be able to impact people all over the world. INFORMS is an international conference, which brings an audience from all over the world. To be able to share with attendees the issues going on in America and to show them how we are trying to combat these issues makes me realize how important this project is.

I believe in the power of networking whether it’s through social media or word of mouth and my hope is that through this conference, someone will become more knowledgeable of the impact that HIV/AIDS has had on black females, spread the word about it, and join us in promoting awareness. Follow us on Twitter @myhealthimpact. Share your tweets and blog comments.

-KMB