Second, using family history to predict disease requires several skills: understanding what family history is saying about risk, understanding how to communicate risk to patients, and using risk information to motivate behavior change.
It goes beyond IT skills, a complete culture change is required to live fully within the modern digital society, from understanding how to communicate ideas effectively in a range of media to managing digital reputation and history.
Joe Lockhart, the White House press secretary, says, "He's as good as anybody I've ever come across in understanding how to communicate with people, but often a conversation with him is quite disjointed".
"I would say the hardest challenge for me has been understanding how to communicate struggles and challenges with investors.
The need to understand, and to communicate his understanding to his public, is ultimately what drives Hampson onwards in his musical and spiritual quest, and his greatness as an artist lies in his ability to make an audience re-evaluate every work he performs.
The first dimension (high loadings on six items) reflects the degree to which parents are experienced as understanding, easy to communicate with, accepting, supportive and trustworthy.
Chiefs indicated the sessions strengthened their understanding, ability to communicate and engage physicians about their practice, best practices, quality improvement and accountability.
Competence is captured by grades, conceptual understanding, and ability to communicate understanding to others.
The therapist should be understanding and able to communicate with older people.
Several officials at the D.N.C. told me that a better understanding of their base, or to be more exact, a better understanding of how to communicate with segments within their database, allows them to tap supporters not only for elections, but also for lots of other issues.
