Jen McCabe

Current

• Kisaut Fellow at Health Innovation Cell
• CEO, Founder at Contagion Health (HMRx)

Past

• Volunteer n00b at tedmed
• Volunteer n00b at tedmed
• Social Media Consulting: Chief Patient Advocate at Organized Wisdom

• Innovator, Cofounder, and Analyst at Nexthealth
• Initiator at The NextHealth Conference
• Ranger, Speaker Liaison at Health 2.0
• Intern at Health 2.0
• Organizer at Health 2.0 Unconference NL
• Associate Administrator at Christ House Inc.
• Director of Development at The Hanover Research Council
• Senior Researcher - Analysis and Content at The Hanover Research Council
• Analyst at The Hanover Research Council
• Assistant Editor at American Composite Manufacturers Association

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Education

• St. Mary's College of Maryland

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Hospital & Health Care

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• Twitter

Jen McCabe’s Summary

Jen McCabe is CEO/Founder of Contagion Health, a custom design+build consumer-centric health strategy and technology firm born in 2009 to advance participatory medicine.

Contagion designs social media, mHealth (mobile health) and eHealth campaigns and experiential applications (such as health games for patient education) to harness personal 'microrelevance' created when consumers use technology for health, including recording Observations of Daily Living (#ODLs) and personal biometrics, or 'Me-trics.'

In August 2009, McCabe designed concepts for 2 award-winning mHealth applications (for iPhone and Google Android) which were coded and demoed by volunteer teams at Silicon Valley hackathons (iPhoneDevCamp 3 and Google's GTUG Campout).

A Kisaut Fellow at the Health Strategy Innovation Cell, Massey College, University of Toronto McCabe's projects include work on low-tech, high-impact service-oriented design from the patient perspective, including the #getupandmove campaign. Her academic research will focus on the role (theoretical and applied) of microchoice and microrelevance in individual health/wellness decision-making.

In late 2008, Ms. McCabe joined OrganizedWisdom Health to serve part-time as Chief Patient Advocate. In January 2009, Jen designed and managed the launch of @polarwisdom, the first condition-specific advocacy Twitter feed designed for those dedicated to living well with depression. @polarwisdom was part of a larger, comprehensive Twitter campaign called "TwitterWisdom," for which Ms. McCabe also designed quant/qual metrics for using and analyzing Twitter interactions, including the DPSR method of content redistribution and the AMP method of measuring social media time management.

@jensmccabe is an extremely prolific blogger, "tweet," speaker, participant and advocate in numerous health, medical, and technology communities, online and offline, particularly in the mobile, tech and HIT startup spaces.

Jen McCabe’s Specialties:

Catalyst. Experiential analyst. Serial connector of healthcare innovators. Semantic web/HIT researcher, whiteboarding evolution of eHealth, mHealth.

Star analyst, using quant/qual methodologies to extrapolate goal definition & assessment.

Internal & external evangelist passionate about illuminating new initiatives, especially within hospital/healthcare & nonprofit strata.

"Finger on the pulse" managing of soft assets and targeted plans for program design, expansion, & implementation.

Jen McCabe’s Experience

• Kisaut Fellow

  Health Innovation Cell

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

  A Kisaut Fellow at the Health Strategy Innovation Cell, Massey College, University of Toronto (August 2009-January 2010), McCabe's projects include work on low-tech, high-impact service-oriented design from the patient perspective, including the #getupandmove campaign. Her academic research will focus on the role (theoretical and applied) of microchoice and microrelevance in individual health/wellness decision-making.

• CEO, Founder

  Contagion Health (HMRx)

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Startup Contagion Health/Health Management Rx is working globally (US, NL, CA) to accelerate innovative, consumer-facing personal health platform and application assembly via in-house business plan development with client teams and external research, advocacy, consulting and connecting HIT with unique distribution channels and technologies.
  
  Areas of focus include social media strategy planning, program design, analytic composition, implementation/rollout, and AAR for further improvement, based on global (international) systems analyses and synthesis.
  
  Research areas of interest include integrating undervalued subjective, experiential personal health narrative into healthcare delivery continuum. Hot spots: NLP/semantic web, DTC genomics and the development of the 'me-ome' or 'self-ome' concept, linguistics in healthcare, biomimicry and data modeling, and the #quantifiedself/personal biometrics.
  
  Gaming for health, mHealth development and global applications, and mental health advocacy in the online space additional holy grails.

• Volunteer n00b

  tedmed

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

• Volunteer n00b

  tedmed

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

• Social Media Consulting: Chief Patient Advocate

  Organized Wisdom

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  December 2008 — August 2009 (9 months)

  As contractor (consultant), created first position of its kind (Chief Patient Advocate) in healthcare IT/social web space, managing OW's efforts to engage consumers with healthcare content using various communication vectors including social media outlets like Twitter.
  
  Designed, managed, and implemented new media campaigns to improve and enhance credibility/brand/awareness via
  ongoing, repeatable, cost-effective processes which increase traffic and engagement. Designed metric sets to analyze, report, and revise campaigns.
  
  Designed custom, replicable methodologies (DPSR, AMP Method) for using Twitter as personal+organizational channel for health advocacy.
  
  Created first condition-specific patient advocacy Twitter feed for those living with depression and bipolar disorder (@polarwisdom) - secured 300 followers in 3 weeks.
  
  Presented new/social media strategies and tech integration for health innovation at HealthCampDC, IgniteBoulder, HealthCampPhilly, HealthCampBoston/SocialPharmer, BIO2009.
  
  Business/strategic development chops: Sourced syndicated, cross-collaborative content partnerships and performed primary web-based community outreach.
  
  Manage continuing analysis/renovation of communication/media (TwitterWisdom) campaigns including metric design, internal training, and external consulting for hospital/Health 2.0 colleagues.

• Innovator, Cofounder, and Analyst

  Nexthealth

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  April 2008 — January 2009 (10 months)

  Nexthealth is a P2P collaborative non-profit initiative founded in The Netherlands to connect people, online and offline, who innovate and improve healthcare.
  
  Nexthealth initiatives include the website http://www.nexthealth.nl, OpenHospital sessions, and the forthcoming NextHealth 2009 conference.
  
  Connect with us through http://www.nexthealth.nl for more information or other requests!
  
  Reach out to nexthealth via Twitter.com - help us move healthcare to "what's next."

• Initiator

  The NextHealth Conference

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  April 2008 — January 2009 (10 months)

  TheNextHealth Conference connects and inspires people committed to improving the future of healthcare by sharing in the present - sparking change in "what's next" both online and offline.
  
  NextHealth takes its cues from innovation/idea exchanges that advance the global conversation, including Health 2.0, founded by Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya, TED, DefragCon.com, OpenCoffee, Mobile Monday, BarCamp, the Unconference movement, pushthefuture.org, Picnic 2008, and many more.
  
  NextHealth is the first European conference that connects the dots between offline and online (Health2.0) innovators, interrogators and implementers.
  
  The first conference will be organized in Spring 2009 in The Netherlands.
  
  Visit nexthealth.nl to get involved.

• Ranger, Speaker Liaison

  Health 2.0

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)

  Complete management (scheduling, execution, recommendations, revisions) of demo/rehearsal process with +80 C-level speakers for breakout panels, Health 2.0, San Francisco, CA.
  
  Attendance at various industry events with blog/Twitter coverage and analysis - blog entries published at Health Management Rx, HealthCentral.com, Nexthealth.NL, and The Health Care Blog.
  
  Performed quant/qual analysis of Health 2.0 startup companies using custom 'report card.'
  
  Recommended new startups to Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya for conference involvement.

• Intern

  Health 2.0

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  November 2007 — May 2008 (7 months)

  Created custom metrics methodology (quantitative and qualitative) to analyze Health Information Technology (HIT) and social media/networking startups; used this tool to 'grade' firms and identify star players in consumer-centric health movement.
  
  Analyzed over 50 startups in 2 months, benchmarked firms against competitors, recommended next steps to Health 2.0 organizers (firm appropriate for interviews? speaker/presentation?).

• Organizer

  Health 2.0 Unconference NL

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)

  Along with Martijn Hulst and Maarten den Braber, with assistance from Jeroen Kuipers, Jacqueline Fackeldey, and Niels Schuddeboom, organized the first European Health 2.0 event from scratch in 3 weeks.
  
  Event goal: To bring innovative spirit which grew out of Health 2.0 USA movement founded by Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya to Holland.
  Event connected concept creators, translators and implementers.
  
  In true Web 2.0 fashion, organizers utilized Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media- got 45 people to attend. See http://www.health20.nl for more information.

• Associate Administrator

  Christ House Inc.

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  July 2007 — December 2007 (6 months)

  Jill-of-all trades for medically-oriented nonprofit providing services to homeless men and women in Washington DC.
  
  Led tight, diverse administrative ops team and managed growth/maintenance of Kairos Work Program (KWP), composed of formerly homeless men gainfully engaged in part time employment within Christ House & Kairos House.
  
  Desk jock duties include ops support, vendor sourcing/relationship maintenance, safety, full scope of HR & benefits administration management.
  
  Internal innovation champion sourcing cross-vertical relationships including The One Percent, a service partnering nonprofits with architecture firms committed to pro-bono work. “Sold” concept up chain of command, resulting in project request (redesign of patient rooms for 33 inpatients) within 24 hours of idea sourcing.

• Director of Development

  The Hanover Research Council

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  July 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Managed targeted plans for growth in dynamic, startup atmosphere as traveling director (50%) including expansion into varied geographic markets and additional industry verticals (Business Services-East Coast, Hospitals/Healthcare – West Coast).
  
  Personally sourced, scheduled, and closed multi-year membership (3 years) with first prospect meeting attended as Director.
  
  Expanded Hospital/Healthcare practice, securing members including renowned well-aging community with ties to Board of large, multi-site medical system, the firm’s first LTC/SNF/AL facility member.
  
  Recruited former Vice President, Patient Care Services, from University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore, MD), a nationally-renowned Trauma Center.
  
  Acted as ‘face’ and ‘voice’ of The Council at vital hospital/healthcare (H/HC) industry events including The Joint Commission’s Hospital of the Future Symposium (Lake Buena Vista, FL) April 2007.

• Senior Researcher - Analysis and Content

  The Hanover Research Council

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  April 2006 — July 2006 (4 months)

  Utilized primary and secondary research methodologies to author conspectuses covering custom topics, ensuring high-utility for SME clients and prospective members of The Council.
  
  Composed responses to custom research requests submitted by executive teams from a variety of industry verticals, including university IR departments and defense contractors.
  
  Performed analysis of highly sensitive, valuable, internal benchmarking data ranges and statistics as requested by clients and prospective members. Authored one of HRCs premiere healthcare briefs, an in-depth quantitative analysis of internal data for a 4 year nursing school, and provided methodologies for increasing NCLEX pass rates.
  
  Composed in-depth Analyst Training Manual for use in orientation of new ARCs, including first singular description of HRC research methodologies.

• Analyst

  The Hanover Research Council

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

  February 2006 — April 2006 (3 months)

  Go-getter researcher utilizing primary & secondary research methodologies to author dense conspectuses covering custom topics, ensuring high-utility for SME clients and prospective members of The Council.
  
  Quantiative & qualitative aptitudes resulted to fastest promotion in company history. Output includes 33 page competitive evaluation of Board of Trustee structures (including BOD interviews) for a Midwestern regional university - completed in one business day. While on vacation. In a camper on my way to Florida.
  
  Synthesis involved highly sensitive, valuable, internal data ranges and statistics (including multipartite examination of NCLEX preparatory resources and program participant demographic correlations to pass/fail rates, benchmarking curriculum offerings, and modeling pass rate improvement with vendor sourcing and new resource utilization for a public college Nursing program).

• Assistant Editor

  American Composite Manufacturers Association

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  August 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 4 months)

  Magazine Guru: Soup to nuts magazine production, including planning and editing (right down to bluelines) for for bimonthly International Cast Polymer Alliance (ICPA) magazine, Cast Polymer Connection (CPC) - circ. 2,200. Penned approximately 75% of content.
  
  Grew publication value w/out increasing cost, upping regular features from 4 to 6, retaining 48 pages/issue.
  
  Managed comprehensive annual, quarterly, and per-issue budget for CPC including travel, editorial/photo/design/print expenses. Recruited/managed stable of freelancers (writers/photographers).
  
  ACMA/ICPA rep at chapter meetings, trade shows, conferences, etc. Leveraged opportunities into additional brand expansion/reputation building; secured placement of ICPAs annual tradeshow, POLYCON 2005, in luxury publication FK+B: Florida Kitchens & Baths.

Jen McCabe’s Education

• St. Mary's College of Maryland

  Bachelor of Arts , English , 2002 — 2004

Additional Information

Jen McCabe’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• Twitter

Jen McCabe’s Interests:

Recruiting, startup life, health/healthcare reform, tech evangelism, cycling/hiking/running, genomics, reading for business and pleasure, ancient Egyptian history.

Jen McCabe’s Groups:

Health 2.0 USA, Health 2.0 Unconference NL, American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), National Capital Healthcare Executives (NCHE - ACHE DC-based chapter), Dress for Success, Innovation Challenge Judge 2007, Ruckus Nation Judge 2007, MEDBANK of Maryland, Health Management Rx; Healthcare Bloggers,Medicine 2.0 Congress, SWWS 2008, 2009.

•    Women 2.0
•    Innovation Challenge Judging Alumni
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Open HealthCare
•    MobileMonday
•    Healthcare-IT/ EHR/ HIS
•    ThoseinMedia
•    St. Mary's College of Maryland Alumni
•    Twitter
•    Mobile Content
•    Cloud Computing
•    Healthcare Bloggers
•    Health 2.0
•    Twitterazzi
•    Lijit
•    Nexthealth
•    Zorg-Professionals
•    Mobile Monday Amsterdam
•    Global Health Council
•    Dealmaker Media
•    The Crumple It Up Innovation Network
•    LifeSciences▫Pharma▫Healthcare▫ Innovation & Integration: Professional Network
•    Continua
•    Health Care New Media Marketing Conference
•    Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB)
•    Cloud Hosting & Service Providers Forum
•    nextHospital - for visionary hospital leaders
•    SF New Media Club
•    HealthCamp SFBay
•    Health Management Technology

Jen McCabe’s Honors:

Business Track Director, Medicine 2.0 Congress, 2009. http://www.medicine20congress.com/

Nexthealth research (coauthor Maarten den Braber) selected for WORLDCOMP08. Nexthealth research selected (and presented) at first Medicine 2.0 Congress (organized by Gunther Eysenbach), Toronto, CA, September 4-5, 2008. http://www.medicine20congress.com/

Co-founded Medical Education Evolution, international online community for those passionate about innovation within medical curriculum. Goal: Move from talk to active collaboration with real-world implementation (university course redesign, medical librarian/student educational interaction, etc). Cofounders: Dr. Ted Eytan, Berci Mesko, 2008. http://medschoolevolution.ning.com/

Co-chair, first translational HoIP (Healthcare over Internet) track at WORLDCOMP 2009, largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing (co-chair/organizer Andy Marsh). http://hoip.hostinguk.com/worldcomp09/

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