Huff & Puff: The Asthma App – “the world’s best asthma education app!” – released in free and premium versions for tablets and smart phones

Los Angeles, CA – May 21, 2013: Health Nuts Media (HNM), a health engagement company, announces the release of their app, Huff & Puff: The Asthma App, for recent versions of the iPad/iPod/iPhone and Android tablets and smart phones.

Based on their animated series, Huff & Puff: An Asthma Tale, the app takes the fun to a whole new level. HNM’s CEO, Tim Jones, explains that, “While our animated series has received rave reviews from patients, doctors, nurses, and health educators across the country, we knew we wanted to take the level of engagement up even higher. Adding games and quizzes helped us make it even more fun. “Gamification” of health information has been shown to be an effective way to engage people and improve their health literacy. With our app, people can learn without even knowing they’re doing so!” (more…)

Children’s health literacy series uses Nucleus’s ultrasound animation to explain procedures to kids in an easy to understand way

Nucleus Medical Media, a health literacy company, announces the use of their ultrasound animation in the Health Nuts Media ABCs of Health Literacy animation series aimed toward educating children.

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Seattle Times reports on advances in technology to help people with asthma

Los Angeles, CA — August 9, 2012: Last week, the Seattle Times ran a great little piece entitled, “New high-tech devices monitor asthma, raise awareness” in which Health Nuts Media and one of our wonderful distribution partners, Learn360 Health were highlighted.

Staff reporter Kibkabe Araya researched how “Technology is helping people with asthma better manage their symptoms, even avoid certain triggers. Companies are unveiling devices that track inhaler usage with GPS, measure wheezing and compile data on smartphone mobile apps.”

According to the article, “‘We discovered over 85 percent of patients can bring their asthma under control,’ (more…)

Los Angeles, CA – June 25, 2012: Health Nuts Media has launched a Spanish-language version of its animated asthma education series Huff & Puff: An Asthma Tale. The seven-episode series, already valued by healthcare providers as a teaching tool for kids with asthma, is now available to millions of Spanish speakers who suffer from the chronic pulmonary condition.

“Rates of asthma are on the rise among children, especially Latino kids across the United States,” said Dr. Gregg Alexander, Chief Medical Officer, Health Nuts Media. “If we can make learning about asthma fun, we can reach that many more families with the information they need to take better control of their health.”

In Soplar & Rabiar: Un Cuento de Asma (Huff & Puff: An Asthma Tale), the Big Bad Wolf huffs…and he puffs…and has asthma attack! Viewers follow “Grande” on a journey of discovery (more…)

Los Angeles, CA – May 21, 2012: Health Nuts Media Chief Medical Officer, Gregg Alexander, DO, has been named “Super Doc” by the Ohio Health Information Partnership for his work in health information technology. Dr. Alexander was awarded the honor at the Patient Care: Connecting the Dots in Ohio conference held at Ohio State University in Columbus on April 26, 2012.

A practicing pediatrician at Madison Pediatrics in London, Ohio, Dr. Alexander has long promoted the use of a variety of technologies for advancing healthcare. He is the current director of the Pediatric Office of the Future for the American Academy of Pediatrics and also serves on the AAP’s Council on Clinical Information Technology Executive Committee as well as the Project Advisory Committee for the Child Health Informatics Center. (more…)

Los Angeles, CA – May 18, 2012: In recognition of Asthma Awareness Month, Health Nuts Media has launched an animated asthma education series titled Huff & Puff: An Asthma Tale. The seven-episode cartoon is already helping national healthcare insurance plans, health literacy partners, and local community organizations teach kids about asthma.

Watch the videos at: Huff & Puff: An Asthma Tale

“With rates of asthma rising among children, doctors and parents need health education that is engaging and fun for kids to watch,” said Tim Jones, CEO, Health Nuts Media. “If Health Nuts Media can get children excited about listening to the Big Bad Wolf talk about asthma, we have the opportunity to make a real impact on asthma, and help improve kids’ quality of life.” (more…)

Health Nuts Media now available to 1,500 more primary care physicians

Los Angeles, CA – May 10, 2012: Health Nuts Media announces that its health literacy animation will now be available to an additional 1,500 U.S. pediatric and family medicine physicians as part of a licensing agreement with healthcare web design firm, Pediatric Web. As part of the agreement, Health Nuts Media animated videos will be offered to Pediatric Web clients on a subscription basis.

“Private practice physicians need medical education that engages and captivates their patients,” says Health Nuts Media CEO, Tim Jones. “Our partnership with Pediatric Web will give even more physicians the story-telling power of animation to better inform children and their families (more…)

Education technology provider collaboration turns focus to building knowledge of environmental triggers, treatment and more for asthma

WOODBURY, N.Y., May 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Learn360Awareness, an initiative from Learn360 designed to build awareness of specific topics and link supporting educational content to those topics, in partnership with Health Nuts Media, today announces the launch of its third initiative focusing on asthma.

“Nearly 1 in 10 school-aged children suffer from Asthma, making it the leading cause of absenteeism in the U.S. representing nearly 14 million missed school days annually,” said Chris Sanborn, president of Learn360. “The effects of this disease can be dramatically minimized with easy-to-adopt classroom environmental control practices. (more…)

Feb. 22, 2012, Los Angeles — Health Nuts Media announces the completion of Understanding Diabetes, a seven-part animated video series designed to educate children and their parents about diabetes diagnosis and management. This series adds to the growing library of digital health literacy content Health Nuts Media has made available to hospitals and private practice physicians for their pediatric patients.

Watch the videos at: “Understanding Diabetes”

“Our goal at Health Nuts Media is to create much-needed health education that is not only informative, but fun,” says Health Nuts Media CEO, Tim Jones. “We were surprised that there were so few diabetes resources geared toward kids, despite the growing prevalence of diabetes among children.” (more…)