Vivid-Pix wins digital health awards in web-based digital health category

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Vivid-Pix announcedit has won the Digital Health Award in the web-based Digital Health Category for the Vivid-Pix Webinar Series on Photo Reminiscence Therapy (pRT) Education. The Digital Health Awards recognize the world’s best digital health resources, choosing winners from nearly 500 entries.

A leader in AgeTech, Vivid-Pix is dedicated to helping people relive and preserve memories with software, hardware, and educational services. Vivid-Pix collaborates and conducts primary research with medical professionals, researchers, and organizations within the family history and senior care communities, including the National Institute for Dementia Education (NIDE)’s Standards of Excellence (SOE) Council, CERTUS Institute, as well as universities, colleges, libraries, societies, museums, community centers, senior living locations, and home care providers to advance Photo Reminiscence Therapy (pRT) understanding and improvement of brain health. The company develops training and social activities based on cherished memories to support cognitive wellness.  This research is being conducted in community locations, social environments, and higher education locations throughout the US.

Vivid-Pix and its partners have published research on Photo Reminiscence Therapy (pRT) that identifies photos and activities that foster brain health and reminiscence to reduce social isolation and loneliness, as well as create connections between caregivers and those living with dementia or cognitive decline. These findings have been incorporated in a series of webinars and educational courses available through Vivid-Pix at: https://www.vivid-pix.com/reminisce/ and https://www.vivid-pix.com/education/.

“We are honored to win the prestigious Digital Health Award, which recognizes our educational programming on pRT that provides CEU (Continuing Education Unit) training hours for nurses and caregivers in dementia and caregiving, education for family and friends, and our commitment to supporting those with and caregivers for those with dementia and cognitive decline,” said Rick Voight, CEO, Vivid-Pix.

The Digital Health Awards features 65 categories in Web-based Digital Health; Mobile Digital Health Resources; Personal Digital Health Devices/Wearables; Digital Health Media/Publications; Digital Health/Social Media; and Connected Digital Health. A panel of 58 experts in digital health media served as judges and selected winners from nearly 500 entries.

The Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), organizer of the Digital Health Awards, is a national information clearinghouse for professionals in consumer health fields. Other well-known HIRC programs include the annual National Health Information Awards (healthawards.com), which annually recognizes the nation’s best consumer health information in non-digital formats.

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Gary Pageau is principal of InfoCircle LLC, continuing his marketing communications career. InfoCircle LLC is a marketing and communications consulting firm, specializing in business-to-business markets. For nearly 25 years, he was with PMA International, serving most recently as Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives. His primary responsibilities included overseeing the Association’s editorial department, marketing research unit, education and corporate relations department.