We’ve been writing a lot about the case for mobile in healthcare over the past couple of years. And we’re going to keep writing about it. With one quarter of US adults turning to their mobiles for healthcare information, it’s important that the industry keeps pushing forward with innovative sites, apps and tools that will [...]
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By Sven Larsen
These days everyone is familiar with e-commerce. And our more social media savvy readers are probably all clued up on f-commerce (that’s Facebook commerce folks). I’ve even heard Google’s Adwords and Adsense business referred to as g-commerce. But what about the next letter in the alphabet. How come no one is talking about [...]
Tags:Digital Tools·h-commerce·hcommerce·Health care·healthcare·innovation·marketing·online resources·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·strategy·technology·Trends·user needs
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 recently chatted with Paul Simms, Chairman of eyeforpharma, the mastermind behind the ‘Pharmasuiticus reps’ YouTube nature “documentary,” which you may have seen doing the rounds in your social networks.
Pixels&Pills: Why did you decide to make this video?
Paul Simms: We find ourselves quite frustrated with the current situation in pharmaceutical sales management. This is still [...]
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Speaking to our friend Shwen Gwee as part of PharmFresh TV, 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·Health care·open data·PharmFresh·Shwen Gwee·SXSW·SXSWi·Tim O'Reilly·Todd Park
by Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz)
We here at Pixels & Pills are well-known for our vocal support of digital technology and its place in healthcare – how it’s helped medicine and care to advance and to help people better than ever before. But today I wanted to look at one particular facet of healthcare, and how going [...]
Tags:Compliance·connections·e-patient·e-patients·epatient·Health care·Medicine·personalization·social media·social networks·technology
by Dennis Portello
Everywhere you turn, a wave of seemingly ever-accelerating technology changes impact our world. From computers to communications, from basic research to go-to-market products, technology has increased productivity and, most would argue, increased our standard of living.
Against that backdrop – not to mention the backdrop of individual lives, full of smartphones, computers, iPads and [...]
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by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3)
What if there were a coordinated healthcare system in which teams of caregivers focused on sharing information and insights about their mutual patients and preventing health issues before they became critical?
Is it a utopian dream or perhaps the mission statement of an advocacy group? No – it’s the original vision developed two [...]
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by DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)
Thinking back just 20 years ago, there were a limited number of communication options: the phone call, the letter, the fax. A person’s digital habit – though not thought of in that way – was limited to television or radio, save for a few early adopters exploring computer technology. Today we have [...]
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by Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz)
Recently, we were asked what we thought about how Google+ could affect healthcare, by someone who had read an Xconomy post on the same question.
So, does this newest, mega-hyped social network have the potential to really transform the industry? As you’ve seen with our many point/counterpoint articles, we like to [...]
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