Tag Archives: Health care
Making the Case for Mobile in Healthcare
Weve been writing a lot about the case for mobile in healthcare over the past couple of years. And were going to keep writing about it. With one quarter of US adults turning to their mobiles for...
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Tagged conference, Conferences, events, Health, Health care, healthcare, marketing, mobile, Pharma, Pharmaceutical industry, strategy, technology, Trends
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Why Aren’t We Talking About H-Commerce?
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 (thats Facebook commerce folks). Ive even heard...
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Tagged Digital Tools, h-commerce, hcommerce, Health care, healthcare, innovation, marketing, online resources, Pharma, Pharmaceutical industry, strategy, technology, Trends, user needs
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Crowdsourced Science
by Russ Ward (@russcward) Can science becrowdsourced? 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...
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Tagged Communities, crowdsource, crowdsourcing, FoldIt, Health, Health care, health tracking network, healthcare, John Mack, patient, Pharma, Pharmaceutical industry, science, SETI@Home, Trends
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Have You Evolved?
We recently chatted with Paul Simms, Chairman of eyeforpharma, the mastermind behind the ¢‚ǨÀúPharmasuiticus reps YouTube nature "documentary, which you may have seen doing the rounds in...
Year In Review: Todd Park & Tim O’Reilly at SXSWi
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...
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Tagged collaboration, Health care, open data, PharmFresh, Shwen Gwee, SXSW, SXSWi, Tim O'Reilly, Todd Park
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How Digital Tech Has Changed Long-Term Patient Care
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 its helped medicine and care to advance and...
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Tagged Compliance, connections, e-patient, e-patients, epatient, Health care, Medicine, personalization, social media, social networks, technology
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Bringing Tech Innovation to the Developing World for Improved Healthcare
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,...
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Tagged developing world, Digital Innovation, global healthcare, Health, Health care, healthcare, impact, Improve, innovation, mobile, patient needs, technology, user needs
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Integrated Care: The Real Deal
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...
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Tagged caremore, Health care, Health Care Reform, healthcare, patient needs, Patients, prevention, prevention models, US Health Care, user needs
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Addressing the Digital Habits of Consumers and Health Care Practitioners
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 persons digital habit though not...
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Tagged communication, digital habits, Digital Tools, engagement, Health care, health care providers, healthcare, information, Patients, Trends, user needs
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Could Google+ Transform Healthcare?
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...
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Tagged Digital Tools, Education, engagement, Facebook, Google, Google Plus, Health care, healthcare, innovation, Legal Issues, social media, Social network, Trends, user needs
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Magic Mirror
by Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz) Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the healthiest one of all? Imagine if looking in the mirror could reveal more than just the lines on your face or the state of your...
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Tagged Compliance, Design, Digital Tools, Education, engagement, future, Health, Health care, healthcare, information, innovation, magic mirror, RFID, technology, User Experience, user needs
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Getting Healthy Through Gaming
by Briana Campbell (@MsMatchGirl) Heres the question: How do we help people get healthy and stay healthy? With all the information thats available, youd think it would be a no brainer, right?...
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Tagged Buster Benson, Communities, community, Compliance, gamification, gaming, Health, Health care, Health Month, healthcare, innovation, marketing, Social network, Trends
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