This winter UConn Health will start offering free monthly webinars to guide current and prospective patients on their role in their own well-being.<\/p>\n
Organized by Khadija Poitras-Rhea and Wendy Martinson from UConn Health\u2019s population health team, the Virtual Community Education series starts with \u201cLearn How to Use MyChart\u201d Feb. 15. Naomi Donat from UConn Health\u2019s Information Technology Department will demonstrate how to use UConn Health\u2019s online patient portal. The debut webinar is open for registration.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe are hoping this would engage some of our patients to actively engage in taking care of their health, for example getting their colon screening, managing their diabetes, and scheduling their annual wellness visits,\u201d says Martinson, ambulatory quality manager.<\/p>\n UConn Health faculty and staff will be the presenters, and the webinars are open to all. Links to join the sessions will be part of UConn Health\u2019s regular public outreach channels, including the community programs page<\/a> and the monthly patient newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n The topics scheduled for March and April are colon cancer prevention and managing medications at home. Other topics tentatively planned include stroke, fall prevention, behavioral health, heart health, diabetes, and making the most of annual wellness appointments.<\/p>\n \u201cThe virtual education program is a great series for patients to educate themselves on ways to stay healthy,\u201d Martinson says. \u201cIt\u2019s scheduled at noon on the third Wednesday of every month \u2014a perfect time to have a virtual lunch and learn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Free monthly Virtual Community Education webinar debuts Feb. 15 with patient portal guidance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":194775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1715,2231,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-194774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-impact","category-health-well-being","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 05:14:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194776,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194774\/revisions\/194776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/194775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194774"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=194774"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=194774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}