By Rob Kempton (@manonthemooncon)
When you think cutting-edge use of social media, you’re probably not thinking of the FDA. While the agency has been criticized for not expediently issuing social media guidelines for pharma, they’re getting up to speed using social media to promote transparency in the agency’s operations, activities, processes and decision-making. The FDA released [...]
Tags:access·agency·communication·community·criticize·empower·engagement·FDA·government·guidelines·information·initiative·innovation·monitoring·patient·privacy·real time·social media·transparency
By Andy Smith (@andysmithpalio)
There’s a treasure trove of high-value health information in government archives that can aid in the delivery of health care. Now, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are joining forces to make this data available to the public and encourage innovative uses of [...]
Tags:access·application·behavior·Best Practices·community·cost·data·development·discussion·disease·event·forum·games·government·growth·Health·health care providers·information·innovation·insight·local·patient·performance·product·quality·service
By Russ Ward (@russcward)
On Tuesday, Andy told you about the importance of data sharing, and how its possibilities are being investigated by a new collaboration between government agencies.
The Health Data Initiative Forum being held June 9 in Bethesda is the latest step in a years-long collaboration between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [...]
Tags:access·collaboration·data·discussion·event·federal·forum·government·Health·learn·live·marketing·panel·satellite·sharing
Steve Krein and Unity Stoakes of Organized Wisdom talk to Marc Monseau about inspiration at SXSW. Unity enjoyed hearing from Todd Park on how our government is using data to revolutionize healthcare, while Steve has reaffirmed his belief in entrepreneurs developing life-saving tools.
Tags:data·development·entrepreneur·government·Health·innovation·Organized Wisdom·Pharm Fresh·Steve Krein·technology·tools·Unity Stoakes
Todd Park revisits his SXSW presentation on the new healthcare system and open data, while Tim O’Reilly talks Google. advertising, and the parallels with healthcare. The two explain their collaboration on moving healthcare into the future.
Tags:collaboration·data·government·healthcare·HHS·innovation·O'Reilly Media·open·Pharm Fresh·technology·Tim O'Reilly·Todd Park
By Jason Brandt (@JasonDMG3)
Thanks to social media, patient advocacy is moving from focusing on lobbying government officials on Capitol Hill, towards working more with individuals online to create local change in communities.
Professional lobbyists have always been a cherished or envied part of the patient-advocacy group’s retinue. They’ve had the valuable ability to maneuver Washington’s intricate [...]
Tags:autism·Autism Speaks·change·Communities·diagnosis·disease·engagement·funding·government·grassroots·healthcare·Insurance·issues·Light It Up Blue·lobbyists·patient advocacy·patient care·reasearch·social media·symptoms·treatments
By Russ Ward (@russcward)
What’s changed in your career in the last decade?
Probably most of the following: your office, your coworkers, the experts, the conventions, the reference books, the terminology, the technology, the measurements of success, the pay grades.
In a word: everything.
So why are we still listening to the platitudes that we thought were smart ten [...]
Tags:business·career·change·conversations·goals·government·interaction·monitor·restriction·rules·social media·success·technology·terminology
By Russ Ward (@russcward)
Contining our week on New Jobs in Pharma, we’ll talk today about government job opportunities.
When you talk about government jobs in pharma, most people might assume that you’re talking about working for the Food and Drug Administration. Well – the best answer there is “maybe”. First, because [...]
By DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)
Have you ever thought of the government as a business partner?
Over the holidays I managed to catch up on a lot of reading. The always insightful Chris Brogan had an interesting post on how a music company had created a custom version of Tweetdeck (a Twitter aggregator) that was preprogrammed with interesting [...]
Tags:Customer relationship management·digital strategy·Digital Tools·Education·government·Government 2.0·Legal Issues·marketing·Pharmaceutical industry·social media·Thought Leaders·Trends·User Experience·user needs
By DJ Edgerton
July 31 can be marked as the point at which the American health care debate officially abandoned all logic.
On that day, an Investors Business Daily editorial opined, “People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, [...]
Tags:government·healthcare policy·healthcare reform·international
