{"id":20218,"date":"2018-08-23T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/spyros-kitsiou-received-the-2018-meritorious-mention-award-from-sig-health-of-the-association-for-information-systems\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T07:58:12","slug":"spyros-kitsiou-received-the-2018-meritorious-mention-award-from-sig-health-of-the-association-for-information-systems","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/spyros-kitsiou-received-the-2018-meritorious-mention-award-from-sig-health-of-the-association-for-information-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyros Kitsiou received the 2018 Meritorious Mention Award from SIG-Health of the Association for Information Systems"},"template":"","news_categories":[],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20218","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>The\u00a0 Special Interest Group on Health of the Association for Information Systems awarded the 2018 Meritorious Mention to BHIS assistant professor <strong>Spyros Kitsiou<\/strong>\u00a0 and co-authors Guy Par\u00e9, Mirou Jaana, and Ben Gerber for their\u00a0article titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0173160\">Effectiveness of mHealth interventions for patients with diabetes: An overview of systematic reviews<\/a>.&#8221; In this article, which was published by Plos One in 2017, Dr. Kitsiou and colleagues examined the effectiveness of various mobile health technology interventions for self-management of diabetes by critically appraising and consolidating evidence from 37 clinical trials and 15 systematic reviews to guide clinical guideline developers and policy decision-making, as well as future research efforts.<\/p>\n<p>This article was also showcased in the <em>UIC News<\/em> on March 15, 2017, and cited in the 2017 National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support of the American Diabetes Association.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of SIG-Health is to support health-IS research, education, and career development in a manner that is inclusive of diverse research methodologies and topic areas, to interact productively with allied disciplines, and to promote high professional standards of ethics and collegiality.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"Article by BHIS researcher and colleagues examined the effectiveness of various mobile health technology interventions for self-management of diabetes","content_author":"Spyros Kitsiou","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=20218"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=20218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}