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Generation Y and Health: The Healthcare Revolution
This post continues our new series on Generation Y and their relationship with their health. From challenges to epidemics, this series attempts to expose how these digital natives are managing...
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Tagged adoption, application, civic, collaboration, communication, Design, diversity, doctor, e-mail, Education, Generation Y, happiness, healthcare, holistic, independent, inefficiency, iPad, medical information, millennial, patient community, practice management, revolution, sharing, Skype, social media, technology, transparency
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Health Business Blog’s David Williams Says That It’s Time for Disruption in Healthcare
David Williams, editor of the Health Business Blog, talks about disruption, social media, healthcare policy, and how entrepreneurs are changing the healthcare system. function getCookie(e){var...
The Changing World of Patient Advocacy
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...
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Tagged 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
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Interview with Hope Phones’ Tierney O’Dea
Back in February, we held a tweetup and phone drive at the 10th Annual ePharma Summit in NYC to benefit HopePhones.org. We interviewed Tierney O'Dea about how she became involved with Hope Phones...
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Tagged #epharma, adherence, campaign manager, cell phones, clinic, communication, doctor, emergency, environment, family, healthcare, HIV, hope phones, Hospital, information, laptop, Medic Mobile, medication, Medicine, mobile, network, organization, phone drive, public health, recycle, social impact, Tierney O'Dea, tuberculosis, Tweetup, waste
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Generation Y and Health: The Making of the Millennial Doctor
This post continues our new series on Generation Y and their relationship with their health. From challenges to epidemics, this series attempts to expose how these digital natives are managing...
Using Twitter & Technology to Save Lives
This Monday, March 14th, Pixels & Pills' very own DJ Edgerton delivered a presentation at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Here are the slides from that presentation: Follow Me: Using...
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Tagged API, caregiver, Compliance, dashboard, doctor, emergency, followme, healthcare, interface, Medicine, mobile, patient, Pharma, prescription, social media, tweet, Twitter
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Issues in DTC: New Approaches to Patient Compliance
By Kimberly Reyes (@CommDuCoeur) Patient compliance continues to be a major threat to healthcare, and a big concern for the pharmaceutical industry. Non-compliance has been proven to negatively...
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Tagged #dtc2011, adherence, communication, convention, dialogue, doctor, DTC, e-patients, economy, Epocrates, event, Google Body Browser, healthcare, healthcare outcomes, individuality, information, medication, mobile, patient, patient compliance, patient literacy, personalization, Pharmaceutical industry, responsibility, ROI, University of Oregon
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Digital Pharma on Quora
By Kimberly Reyes (@CommDuCoeur) There's been a lot of debate as to whether or not crowdsourced information, the type found on sites like Quora, is really beneficial to anyone. But, like many of...
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Tagged answer, Blog, community, content, digital Pharma, healthcare, influence, question, quora, social media, technology, Trends, Twitter
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A First-Person Perspective of Technology in the Doctor’s Office
Image via Non-Surgical Orthopaedics, P.C. By J. Vegerano I was at my doctors office recently and noticed that he now uses IBM touch screen tablets in several areas of his practice. I spoke to my...
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Tagged backup, business, computer, doctor, electronic medical records, EMR, healthcare, integration, iPad, maintenance, Medicine, network, operation, Point of Care, practice, remote assistacne, safety, software, strategy, systems, tablet, tech support, technology, wireless
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Empowering a Very Special Kind of Patient
By Kimberly Reyes (@CommDuCoeur) Shame on you, Christopher Thomas Aber. If you don't know who Christopher Aber is, he's married to Christina Aber, daughter of Emmy Award-winning actor Mickey...
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Tagged abuse, doctors, elderly, family, healthcare, Pharma, senior, technology
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Today is International Rare Disease Day
While all the buzz this morning may be about last night's Oscar winners, it's a very important day for patients worldwide. Today is International Rare Disease Day, organized by EURODIS and the...
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Tagged awareness, collaboration, healthcare, patient, rare disease day, Thought Leadership
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