Digital Health
Taming the Wild Wild West of Mobile Health
By @Spitz Legacy and Context At the dawn of the “World Wide Web†in the early 90s, sites started to exponentially and with tremendous variability in quality proliferate, most...
HIMSS 2013: Ushing in the Future of Digital Health
By @Spitz Over the past few years the buzz surrounding the annual HIMSS Conference has been escalating, now reaching a fever-pitched crescendo proportionate to the excitement at the intersection of health IT,...
Welcome to the ePharma Summit 2013: March 4-6 in NYC
Hundreds of attendees are gathering over the next few days at the Hilton in New York City to share digital health insights and opportunities for pharma and the medical device industries. With keynotes and sessions...
4 Healthcare Trends Influencing Every Mobile Health Decision
This month in @Pharmaphorum, @Spitz explains how trends in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries directly impact mobile health. Read how radical shifts in revenue, regulatory, positioning, and tech...
“It’s Health, NOT Big Bad Pharma”— Changing an Industry through Social Media
by @Spitz With great fanfare and enthusiastic engagement Social Media Week swept through New York City recently, top agencies and big pharma companies from Ogilvy to Pfizer hosting their own healthcare social...
How a 15-Year-Old Googled His Way to Revolutionizing Cancer Detection
by @Spitz The press has recently gone wild celebrating what seems like a fantasy wunderkind tale, that of a teenager from Maryland who on his own initiative developed a non-invasive, five minute test for...
Mobile Health Snapshot: Tapping into 2013 and Beyond…
@SpitzStrategy discusses the current mobile health landscape in his @Pharmaphorum column, this month focusing on regulation, innovation, and privacy. Cross-link on over, and don't hesitate to share your own...
Welcome to the New Pixels & Pills! Your Daily Dose of Digital Health
By @Spitz For years Pixels & Pills has been your go-to source of digital health news, thought leadership, and innovation. Since then social media has transformed traditional blogging to Pinterest- and...
Healthcare Implications for Facebook’s New “Graph Search” Functionality
By @Spitz Social media has, since inception, been the agony and ecstasy for health communicators. On the one hand privacy concerns and the potential for abuse exponentially mount with the more open and often...
“Show Me the Data!”: Pharma Mobile Best Practices Based on US & EU Physician Engagement Stats
Tapping into 2013 with his monthly Mobile Health Mashup column on Pharmaphorum, @Spitz explores fresh data from EPG Health Media and extracts some useful pharma best practices for the year ahead: Create...
Digital Pharma East 2012: Robert Lucente Connects Pharma and Payers via Digital Health Innovation
@Spitz interviews Robert Lucente, Vice President of Digital Strategy of the Hobart Group at the Digital Pharma East Conference in Philadelphia, October 15-18, 2012. Robert discusses how the mutual goal of pharma...
Digital Pharma East 2012: John Pagliuca Influence-Maps the Healthcare Professional Space
@Spitz interviews John Pagliuca, Vice President of Business Development of Qforma at the Digital Pharma East Conference in Philadelphia, October 15-18, 2012. John shares his thoughts regarding influence-mapping...