COMING TOGETHER

Trip lessons align for Symone Spaulding during final stop in Milan, Italy

The study abroad group attends a presentation at Healthcare International. (Contributed photos)

On our first full day in Milan, we visited a health communication company called Healthware International.

Healthware International “combines advisory, agency services and technology capabilities to improve health outcomes while delivering transformational business results.”

Healthware was one of my favorite group activities I attended because this was where everything we have learned in the HealthComm course/trip came together. We all could see where the field of health communication could lead which would be a company like Healthware.

At Healthware they definitely talked to us about the importance of the link between health and communication and they also gave us real world examples of how the company takes the two fields and combines them.

A great example is how the company like Healthware uses technology for health applications like apps, watches, and innovative exercising.

We learned that the field of health communication is projected to expand beyond measure because of continued innovations in technology and the exposure of new health initiatives are being produced and sent out to the masses of citizens in countries.

I can definitely say that I learned that the field of health communication is so important and “up and coming” and would be a great field to continue to look into for the future.

The group poses for a photo.

-by Symone Spaulding, journalism major and English minor
June 19, 2018