Communication is the Medicine
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In this episode, Bill Hart-Davidson discusses how good communication practices produce better patient outcomes. Hear about a multi-site clinical trial with an improved feedback culture, shared-decision making, and m-health intervention—all changes in communication practices—reduces patient risk.
Airdate: November 24, 2021
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Dr. Bill Hart-Davidson is a Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Composition from Purdue University. Bill is also a Senior Researcher in the Writing in Digital Environments Research Center. He is a co-inventor of Eli Review, a software service that supports writing instruction and co-founder of Drawbridge, a learning technology company.
In this episode of Room 42 we discuss teaching and research that have orbited the intersection of technical and professional writing and user experience throughout Bill’s 20-year career. Major themes in his research include improving feedback cultures as a means to see better outcomes in learning in clinical and public health. Bill’s work explores the ways feedback, revision, and reuse can be trained and/or automated using machine-learning technologies. In his most recent book, RhetOps: Rhetoric and Information Warfare, he and Jim Ridolfo explore how state and non-state actors leverage digital rhetorical practices to weaponize and use it in campaigns of disinformation. Bill’s current work in health services shines a light on the bright side of communication and includes a multi-site clinical trial evaluating a combined patient activation, shared-decision making and m-health intervention and its ability to reduce risk in patients. In this trial, all the interventions, all of the new “medicine” are changes in communication practices. The results so far are fascinating.
Resources
Faculty page: https://wrac.msu.edu/faculty/william-...
LinkedIn: / bill-hart-davidson-3787761
Twitter: / billhd
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8147-1610
His book: RhetOps: Rhetoric and Information Warfare https://www.amazon.com/Rhet-Ops-Rheto...
And here’s some fun stuff about him too:
A record he made with his band (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/album/29cb1h...
A video of him juggling: • Just Another Day Working from Home
A gallery of pies he made with his partner, Leslie (Warning! Don’t click through if you’re hungry): https://www.flickr.com/photos/billhd/...