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 Sherri Dorfman, CEO, Stepping Stone Partners

My Consumer eHealth Engagement blog is designed to inform professionals from Health Information Technology companies, Health Plans and Healthcare Delivery organizations about new approaches and solutions to engage and empower consumers/members/employees/patients to make more informed decisions, self- manage and collaborate with their care team, families and others like them. The ultimate goal is better health and outcomes.

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    Sherri Dorfman's Healthcare Technology Bio

    Sherri Dorfman has led the development of consumer- centric products for companies including Philips Medical Systems, Lifeline Systems, GE Healthcare, Partners’ Center for Connected Health,  World Clinic Telemedicine Services, BodyMedia, iGetBetter.com, Wellcoaches.com, Aetna and UnitedHealth Group.

    She is passionate about patient empowerment and engagement to motivate healthy behavior change. With strong expertise in e-Health, e-Wellness and elder care technologies, she guides the development of technologies with needed decision support, mobile and Social Community elements for communication and collaboration, enabling better health and outcomes.

    Sherri has participated on the Healthcare & Social Media Advisory Boards for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Over the past five years, Sherri has moderated panels at Healthcare Unbound conferences on eldercare technologies, mobile health and social media, led a MHealth Workshop and a mobile health panel for various World Congress conferences and ran a panel on "Employee Engagement" at the Partners' Center for Connected Health Symposium.  Sherri has also participated on the Massachusetts eHealth Institute's (MeHi) new Consumer Engagement Workgroup.

    Interests
    For more than three years, Sherri has served on the Parent Advisory Board  for an 18 office Pediatric Group (Part of Partners' Healthcare) providing ideas, insight and feedback on new online consumer educational tools to support health decisions.  

    Since community service is important to her, she started an inter-generational program for Sunrise Assisted Living with her daughter to bring elementary students and seniors together and supports her teenage son’s work with Special Olympics.

    Education
    Sherri has a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and an MBA in Decision Support from Drexel University.  

    Affiliation

    Over the past five years, she served as a faculty advisor for Harvard University's class on Enabling Technology Innovation in Healthcare where she has advised student teams on peer-to-peer online patient communities, an online diabetes community solution,  a multi-channel consumer wellness offering, a patient self- management initiative and a student mobile mental health solution.