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It's been an eventful "rookie season" for me here at Vida Health Communications. I came on board in early October to orchestrate the development of an interactive courseware platform and to oversee the integration of e-learning technologies with Vida's curricular materials. The primary focus of these efforts so far has been construction of the "Vida Course Player": a lightweight, scalable web application that delivers a variety of engaging, media-rich learning opportunities to our clients and [...]

Vida learned this week that NICHD has awarded continuing funding for the phase II portion of our All Babies Cry project. Working with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and five regional hospitals, Vida will test an educational intervention designed to help new parents cope with the stresses brought on by crying infants. The intervention [...]

I was able to catch the last 1.5 hours of streaming video yesterday from President Obama’s healthcare summit with the Republicans. I cannot speak about parts of the summit I missed but I was impressed by the President’s grasp of the issues. He clearly has been centrally engaged in the process and not just an [...]

It was a busy and productive January at Vida Health Communications with all projects moving forward at a brisk clip.

For our After School Gets Moving Project we hired a project manager and entered into a development agreement with Playworks to provide activity coodinators and child actors to model games appropriate for 8-10 year olds in [...]

The month of November is typically a very hectic time at Vida.  In addition to dealing with the holidays it’s also the run-up to the December 5th SBIR grant submission deadline. Grants have gradually become an important source of R&D capital for us and are fueling the development of our next generation information delivery systems, [...]

Vida’s President Lisa McElaney and I just returned from the first meeting of this year’s Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The NIH CAP, now in its sixth year, is designed to assist NIH SBIR Phase II awardees transition their SBIR-developed technologies into the marketplace. Vida is one of about [...]

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Vida is in the final stages of completing “Your Green Guide to Pregnancy,” a DVD video program that provides women with safe, practical strategies to reduce exposure to environmental toxins.

Topics include:

environmental tobacco smoke beauty treatments and [...]

The childbirth education industry is rapidly changing. Due to increased demand Vida will be re-purposing the leading Hello Family Series and updating information to create a new Online Childbirth Education Suite! Vida is currently hard at work adding modules to the Online Childbirth Education Suite. Topics include labor and delivery, having a healthy pregnancy, breastfeeding, [...]

Vida, in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Health, is currently filming for “All Babies Cry”! This DVD program will attempt to help reduce incidents of infant child abuse by showing new parents strategies they may use to soothe a crying infant as well as strategies to monitor their own stress levels and seek help [...]

For over 12 years I have been with Vida Health Communications. As Executive Producer I oversee the entire production process. I produce, film and edit all of Vida’s media projects. Usually I work with a draft of a script and look for subjects and locations. I pre-interview people who might fit the feel and tone [...]