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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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