By DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)
Have you ever heard the expression “You’re judged by the company you keep?”
Now your social circle can even affect your credit.
Social media is being monitored. You knew this.
But it’s being monitored by financial institutions. You may not have thought about that. So far it’s just for marketing purposes, but it certainly puts the [...]
Tags:communication·Communities·Customer relationship management·Digital Tools·Education·Facebook·Health Care Reform·Patients·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·social media·Trends·User Experience·user needs
By Sven Larsen (@zemoga)
Recently Ed Silverman noted on the In Vivo blog that doctors may be banned by their employing hospitals by accepting stock. This makes sense, in one way – of course, it’ll remove any worry about stock as a financial incentive clouding their professional judgements. But, on the other hand, if they [...]
Tags:compensation·doctors·Health·Health Care Reform·Legal Issues·Medicine·Opinion leadership·social media·Thought Leaders·Trends
By Sven Larsen (@zemoga)
What will the Pharma industry be like in 2010?
Even though there are only 10 days left in 2009 I don’t think that’s a question anyone can accurately answer. Not because there’s a lack of experts who could make educated guesses. But because events continue to transpire that cloud the crystal ball for [...]
Tags:drug safety·Health Care Reform·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·prescription drug costs·Thought Leaders·Trends
By DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)
Consolidation
Jobless recovery
Personalized medicine
Social media
Health care reform
If you were playing Pharma Buzzword Bingo, that’d probably be your winning line right there.
All these things have begun in 2009 and are coming down now. Many have deadlines next year.
So which will happen? Which will fizzle out?
Tags:consolidation·digital strategy·Health Care Reform·Pharmaceutical industry·social media·Thought Leaders·Trends
By Jon Hussey
President Obama’s health care initiative reached a major milestone this past weekend when the House voted 220 to 215 to advance legislation that could result in sweeping changes to the nation’s healthcare system. The legislation now moves to the Senate, where it faces merger with the Senate’s own healthcare bill, and an even [...]
Tags:Health care·Health Care Reform·Legal Issues·Patients·Pharmaceutical industry·Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America·Thought Leaders·White House
By Guy Mastrion
Our government’s failure to enact a public health plan is ripe with ramifications. Many of which have nothing to do with healthcare, but maybe it’s not too late to suggest another idea: a public health program based on a system of options.
Perhaps this could help put a manageable framework around a complex set [...]
Tags:Health care·Health Care Reform·Opinion·Trends·User Experience
By Sven Larsen
With all the *ahem* “spirited debate” surrounding healthcare reform it’s clear that there is one part of Obama’s plan that everyone agrees with. Medical records need to be digitized in order to save money, improve communications between care facilities, and improve patient access.
Perhaps both sides are so ready to agree because [...]
Tags:Cloud computing·data·Health Care Reform·Patients·technology
By Guy Mastrion
This morning I went out for a walk and had this great old Johnny cash song in my head called, “One Piece at a Time”
The song relates the story of an auto worker who can’t afford the car of his dreams so he sets out to take the parts home from work, In [...]
By DJ Edgerton
Diagnosis: deja vu.
Fourteen years ago, there was another health care debate going on. But 14 years ago, there were no social networks, no blogs, no microblogging, no HD video, no Java widgets, no electronic health records – email and the web barely existed, at least in a general public-knowledge sense. But, people were [...]
