Healthin30.com is the Intersection of health + science with trusted information for a spectacular well-being. If you’re health conscious, a go-getter, ambitious, crave work|life harmony, and willing to take action for better health—Health in 30® is for you. Award-winning Healthin30.com is an educational destination health website that delivers trusted & jargon-free information to help you live smarter, healthier and better. Healthin30.com offers practical advice for individuals to take charge of their health. From light-hearted stories and articles to thought-provoking pieces—Healthin30.com focuses on prevention and empowerment. Sometimes, we’ll dig deep into stories and provide in-depth articles. Other times, we’ll provide short and simple posts. Always jargon-free, always trusted health information. Our content is carefully written. Just because a topic is trending or popular—it doesn’t mean we’ll cover it. We like evidenced-based information, and we have you in mind when we’re digging deep or writing a short bulleted read. Our medical and health contributors are carefully selected. They are thought-leaders, clinicians, health care professionals and health experts. They have a passion for providing health education to the public. We believe our contributors are some of the best health professionals in health and medicine. Read about our mission here: https://healthin30.com/about/
Healthin30.com is an informational and educational website focusing on health & wellness, public health, mental health, nutrition, self-care, health care, health tech, patient engagement, human experience, health care and social media. In addition to the short and long articles written by Barbara Ficarra, you’ll find posts written by medical/health experts and journalists. Our medical contributors are carefully selected. They are experts in the health care industry who are knowledgeable in their field and are passionate about health and writing. [link to contributor page] https://healthin30.com/medical-contributors/
About Our Founder, Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
Our founder, Barbara Ficarra is registered nurse, award-winning health journalist, international speaker, academic author (VR, AR, MR)*, freelance writer, producer, and consultant. She’s a health educator, health communicator, health designer™, health advisor and multi-media host. She empowers individuals to live healthier lives. Barbara is recognized as a leader in the health care industry and she is on the front lines of health care as a registered nurse. She is a leading voice in health focusing on prevention, health, wellness, lifestyle, healthy living, and health tech, digital health— gamification, telehealth, telemedicine, VR, AR, MR, and mhealth. She addresses health care, patient engagement & empowerment, human experience, and health care social media. She offers practical advice for consumers to take charge of their health, and delivers her trademark brand of advice, which is simple, useful and trustworthy information to help empower people to design their healthiest life. At Healthin30, it’s the place to live smarter, healthier and better. You’ll learn new things, reexamine the basics and take action. As a freelancer, she’s a development coordinator — producer for Warner Media/Turner/CNN. Barbara’s a freelance health writer for magazines, websites and trade publications. Her specialties include health & wellness, technology, lifestyle, and health care. She’s published in Huffpost, Dr. Oz, KevinMD, TED blog, HIMSS, and in-print, she’s published in Latin Trends Magazine, Practice Fusion and trade publications. She’s quoted in popular magazines including Real Simple — as medical contributor to Real Simple Magazine she has offered her clinical and administrative expertise, Redbook and industry publications including PharmaVoice, TED blog, ZocDoc, Cayman Compass, and the Massachusetts Medical Society. Barbara explores the intersection between health, tech, science, wellness and design. As creator, executive producer and host of the former NY terrestrial live radio show (streamed on the web), Health in 30® began her media career. Health in 30® brought listeners the latest health news and information, and empowered listeners to take charge of their health. Barbara has appeared on-air as a health expert for NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, FIOS and WMCN. She’s a frequent guest to radio show which include—Greater Media Radio, Health, Wealth and Wisdom Radio, and Cayman Islands Radio News, to name a few. Barbara is a health advisor and health educator at Sharecare Inc. and she’s a member of their advisory board. Sharecare is founded by Jeff Arnold (founder WebMD). She’s on the advisory board for the University of San Francisco for the Master of Science Program for Health Information Technology. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Master’s degree in public administration with a specialty in health care. A recognized as a leader in the health care industry, Barbara is a leading voice in health and popular speaker. As an international speaker, she presents on the latest trends in health, wellness and health care focusing on health technology—digital health—mhealth, health apps, gamification, telemedicine, and telehealth. She also focuses on social media, patient and consumer engagement, empowerment, professional development and media training. From keynotes to panels, she has presented at the Cleveland Clinic, Scripps, HIMSS SoCal, HIMSS Arkansas, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Ivey Global Health Care conference, e-Patient Connections Conference, Novartis, and BlogHer. She’s presented at the global health care conference in the Cayman Islands, PIAA Amsterdam and Global Health Care Conference in Toronto and Women’s Health Conversation Conference in Pittsburg, PA. She’s also presented at many nursing conferences, and moderates webinars and panels. Barbara has offered expert advice to a variety of organizations and individuals in health care, from start-ups to New York Times Health, Time Warner and Novartis. She’s the former Senior Director of Clinical Affairs for Numera, a tech company. She was a board member for the former National Association of Medical Communicators and served on the Academy of Judges for the International Health and Medical Media Awards. She was invited by Microsoft to judge a series of innovative technology entries for the Imagine Cup 2012. She served as faculty for the American Medical Association’s Medical Communications Conferences, has taught classes in media broadcasting, and is a team member for one of TEDMED’s 20 Great Challenges, Improving Medical Communication. Barbara has received multiple awards for her health journalism, including the Journalism Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians. The winning program, “Ins and Outs of the ER” covered what patients should expect in the ER and the challenges created by crowding and waiting. Barbara is also experienced in video production as host and executive producer for Web/TV creating content surrounding the nursing and medical profession. She is president of Barbara Ficarra Productions, LLC. She’s a health designer™ and founder of BarbaraFicarra.com, a lifestyle destination site that helps people live a happier, bolder, healthier and more stylish life. She empowers people to design a healthy life. Barbara is on the front lines of health care. As a frontline hospital administrator (administrative supervisor) at a large university medical center, she covers multiple in-patient units. Including: general medical and surgical units, oncology, critical care, cardiology, orthopedics, transplantation unit, diabetes unit, step-down, psychiatric unit, women’s and children’s services, and emergency department. She’s multifaceted in her clinical experience, ranging from oncology to general medicine and surgery. She’s a hospital leader, clinical and administrative manager; she supervises various aspects of patient care. She’s an expert clinical and administrative advisor, problem solver and resource for staff, physicians, patients and families. She interacts and leads multiple clinical/non clinical disciplines. Barbara is a patient advocate who always encourages patients and their families to be proactive, empowered and take charge of their health. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, the Honor Society of Nursing, and a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. 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