Tag Archives: community

6 May/11

PHARM FRESH: Ed Bennett Talks About His Resource List for Hospitals Looking Into Social Media

Ed Bennett, the Director of Strategy at University of Maryland Medical Center, helps hospitals implement effective social media strategies by explaining the importance of engaging the patient...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged advocate, communication, community, Ed Bennett, engagements, Hospital, patient, Pharm Fresh, social media, University of Maryland | Leave a comment

5 May/11

PHARM FRESH: “Chronic Babe” Jenni Prokopy Proposes a League of Health Community Heroes

Jenni Prokopy, better known as @ChronicBabe, discusses the problems that health communities face and puts forth the rallying cry for a league of health community heroes to overcome the stigma...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged advertisers, Blogs, ChronicBabe, collaboration, community, demographic, healthcare, heroes, Jenni Prokopy, open source, partnerships, Patients, Pharm Fresh, stigma | Leave a comment

26 Apr/11

Social Media All-Stars: Pharma Brands

This post is part of a series of posts highlighting the current champions in healthcare social media. A lot has changed in the past year or so, and some social media superstars have emerged. Here,...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged ADHD, advertise, aggregation, Blog, brand, cause, community, consumer, experience, Facebook, health services, history, industry, information, nonprofit, opportunity, Pharma, philanthropy, positive, practical, recalls, reputation, social media, Video, widget, YouTube | 1 Comment

18 Apr/11

PHARMA 101: Roles and Responsibilities in the Online Conversation

This blog post is part of a crash-course series about the state of the healthcare industry, and the vital information that every pharma marketer needs to know. By Rob Kempton...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged business, community, conversation, credibility, discussion, expectation, Hospital, influence, information, medical practitioner, Patients, personal, perspective, Pharma, research, responsibilities, social media, stakeholders | 1 Comment

7 Apr/11

Healthy Interactions’ Chris Economos Talks About Engaging Patients To Make Healthy Decisions Both Offline and Online

Chris Economos, Director of Business Development for Healthy Interactions, discusses the value of facilitating community discussions both online and offline to help patients develop strategies to...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged #dtc2011, Chris Economos, community, conference, DTC National Convention, DTC Perspectives, engagement, events, health decisions, Healthy Interactions, interview, Patients, social media, Video | Leave a comment

25 Mar/11

Disney’s Phineas & Ferb: Teaching Pharma About Faith & Fearlessness

By Sven Larsen (@zemoga) In the weeks following ad:tech New York, the song above was stuck in my head. Why? In between sessions, I was reading my free copy of Fast Company from the attendee gift...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged cartoon, community, DDMAC, demographic, Disney, doctors, e-patients, faith, FDA, fearless, guidance, industry, Pharma, Phineas & Ferb, regulations, social media, television, Thomas Abrams | Leave a comment

15 Mar/11

Social Media All-Stars: Hospitals

By Sven Larsen (@zemoga) As we pointed out on March 9, involved, passionate patients are some of the all-stars of social media, bringing their hard-earned expertise forward to influence and opine...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged administrator, community, connection, dialogue, doctor, Facebook, Farmville, Hospital, marketing, Medicine, nurse, online, patient, policy, PR, social media, Twitter, Video, YouTube | Leave a comment

11 Mar/11

Digital Pharma on Quora

By Kimberly Reyes (@CommDuCoeur) There's been a lot of debate as to whether or not crowdsourced information, the type found on sites like Quora, is really beneficial to anyone. But, like many of...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged answer, Blog, community, content, digital Pharma, healthcare, influence, question, quora, social media, technology, Trends, Twitter | 3 Comments

9 Mar/11

Social Media All Stars: Patients

Most of us arent lucky enough to have a doctor in the house, so it makes sense that 80 percent of Americans turn to the Internet to get information about diseases, procedures, doctors, hospitals,...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged advocate, Blog, community, doctor, educate, influence, information, internet, patient, social media, treatment, Twitter | 1 Comment

7 Mar/11

Why blog?

By Andy Smith (@andysmithpalio) Even though there are 126 million blogs available - 73,932 new ones popped up in the last 24 hours many businesses are still gun-shy about blogging. Whats the hold...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged Blog, business, comments, communication, community, conference, connection, content, customer, dialogue, engage, Facebook, ideas, information, interaction, Knowledge, mobile, search, SEO, success, Thought Leaders, Twitter | Leave a comment

28 Jan/11

5 Things You Can Do NOW To Boost Your Social Media Presence

By Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz) Happy Friday, Pixels & Pills readers! Its been a long and snowy week here in the Northeast and were delighted to see that the weekend forecast calls for...more...

Posted in Social Media | Tagged applications, branding, business, communication, community, Facebook, HootSuite, link, messaging, privacy, scheduling, settings, snow, social media, strategy, style guide, TweetDeck, Twitter, Video | Leave a comment

20 Jan/11

e-Tools: Pharma Study Patient Recruitment Is Going Digital

Today's guest blog post comes from Carmen R. Gonzalez. Carmen is the Manager of Strategy and Communications at Healthcare Communications Group, a leading clinical trial recruitment and retention...

Posted in Digital Health | Tagged Android, application, business, cell phone, clinical trial, community, diversity, doctors, IPhone, maps, mobile, patient, Pharma, recruitment, screening, SMS, social media, staff, technology | 7 Comments