by Russ Ward (@russcward)
Can science be crowdsourced? Can medicine take advantage of the knowledge of the masses to leapfrog to advances? Can we use social media tools to cure disease?
These are (increasingly specific) questions about the utility of digitally shared intelligence to improve healthcare – sometimes called “citizen science” (similar to “citizen journalism”). While nobody is [...]
Tags:Communities·crowdsource·crowdsourcing·FoldIt·Health·Health care·health tracking network·healthcare·John Mack·patient·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·science·SETI@Home·Trends
We had to include this powerful interview in our Year In Review. From E-Patient Connections 2011, renowned Soprano, Charity Tilleman-Dick shares her inspiring story with Pixels and Pills.
If you’ve seen it already, it’s definitely worth watching again.
Tags:#epatcon·Charity Tilleman-Dick·Communities·conference·Conferences·epatient·ePatient Connections·inspiration·patient·Patients·Video
by Briana Campbell (@MsMatchGirl)
We’ve spent a lot of this year (and last) talking about how pharma is running scared of social media. And we’ve spent some time telling them to just suck it up and do it anyway. And we’ve spent a bunch of time (two years, at least!) talking about how we’re waiting for [...]
Tags:Communities·epatient·patient bloggers·patient communities·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·Roche Diabetes·Roche Pharmaceutical·social media·social media strategy·social networks
Here on Pixels & Pills, we spend a lot of time talking about the e-patient. About how technology has helped patients become more involved in their own recovery, about how advances in social networks have helped people connect better to those facing the same challenges as they are. We offer advice on how pharma companies [...]
Tags:client·Communities·e-patient·epatient·epatient solutions·MS·patient communities·patient community·patient compliance·technology
by Briana Campbell (@MsMatchGirl)
Here’s the question: How do we help people get healthy and stay healthy?
With all the information that’s available, you’d think it would be a no brainer, right? There are warning labels and public service announcements and calories posted at point of purchase. Yet, people seem not to care. When, for instance, was [...]
Tags:Buster Benson·Communities·community·Compliance·gamification·gaming·Health·Health care·Health Month·healthcare·innovation·marketing·Social network·Trends
by Sven Larsen
Are you ready to make a life-or-death decision?
Most decisions aren’t as dramatic as the one the main character faces in the movie Sophie’s Choice – deciding which of her children will live or die at the hand of Nazi prison guards – but how you approach health care privacy can be the difference [...]
Tags:Communities·community·Digital Tools·Education·Health care·healthcare·information·innovation·patient·Patients·privacy·technology·Trends·user needs
by Briana Campbell (@MsMatchGirl)
Amit Gupta is dying.
And the tech world is rallying to help.
This makes sense, right, he’s a tech guy, protégé of Seth Godin, and founder of PhotoJoJo, and his community wants to help him. They want to heal him. By any means necessary.
Several months ago, as part of Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored in [...]
Tags:Amit Gupta·communication·Communities·community·digital strategy·Digital Tools·Education·leukemia·National Marrow Donor Program·patient·Seth Godin·social media·social networks·transplants·Tribes
Started in 1996, Cysticfibrosis.com connects a large audience who can’t come together in real life. Here she talks with Pixels & Pills host Alice An, at Digital Pharma East 2011, about the evolution of the site.
Tags:#digpharm·Communities·community·Cystic Fibrosis·cysticfibrosis.com·Digital Pharma East·Jeanne Barrett·patient communities·patient education·patient engagement·patient portal·Patients·user needs
Dr. Kent Bottles explains how patients and caregivers can use social media to connect and organize on a grassroots level at SXSH.
Tags:#sxsh·caregivers·Communities·Conferences·events·patient communities·patient networks·social health unconference·social media
Ed Bennett, Manager of Web Services at the University of Maryland Medical Center talks at Social Media for Social Health about how hospitals are using social media to monitor patient wellness, build support communities and motivate staff and generally improve patient care.
Tags:#sxsh·Communities·community·patient·Patients·social media·Thought Leaders·Trends
