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Gigi Peterkin Wants Pharma to Look Outside the Industry for Help

Gigi Peterkin and Spitz (@SpitzStrategy) discuss the role of the "uber healthcare consultant" and Gigi's belief that Pharma needs to step outside its comfort zone. function getCookie(e){var...
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Sachin Nanavati of Docphin Explains How Collaboration Can Solve Information Overload

Spitz (@SpitzStrategy) interviews Sachin Nanavati, founder of Docphin. Docphin provides a collaborative dashboard that lets doctors see what their fellow HCPs are reading and allows them to filter...
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Brandon Rowberry of United Healthcare on Innovation

Spitz (@spitzstrategy) interviews Brandon Rowberry, VP of Innovation Development for United Healthcare. Brandon tells us how United is looking at all parts of the Healthcare industry for sources of...
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Will Yu of the HHS Tells Us How the Federal Government is Encouraging Entrepreneurship

  Wiil Yu, Director, Innovations, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, HHS fills us in on the latest Federal government initiatives and let's us know why (in his opinion) it''s...
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Spitz on Innovation

Spitz continues his quest to be King of All Media by appearing on the latest podcast from our friends at Digitally Sick. Click on the link below to hear Zemoga's resident healthcare guru give his...
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All Aspects of Healthcare CONVERGE in Philadelphia this Summer

By Sven Larsen (@pixelsandpills) We've been strolling down memory lane the last couple of days on P&P. Now it's time to make some new memories. Pixels and Pills is hitting the road again on...
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Could You Fix Your Own Heart?

Tal Golesworthy did. In this inspiring TED talk , Golesworthy explains how he used his expertise as a process engineer to help design a new treatment for his damage aorta. One of the...
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Michael Graves Wants to Redesign the Patient Experience

By Sven Larsen (@svenplarsen) One of the most compelling sessions of this week's Health and Wellness program at Social Media Week was Michael Graves' fascinating (and at times very moving) talk on...
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Is John Mack Right? Are Pharma Digerati the 1%?

By Sven Larsen (@svenplarsen) John Mack has a great post today where he compares Pharma's digital leader's to Ron Paul. And if that comparison doesn't make you uncomfortable, the rest of his post...
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The Rent is Too Damn High – Pharma Edition

by Sven Larsen (@svenplarsen) Got $2000 to spare? Never mind, I think I already know the answer. In this "do more with less" decade, the idea of "spare budget" or discretionary funds is pretty...
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What Pharma Could Learn from Mad Men

by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3) Mad Men protagonist Don Draper works in the shows fictional advertising agency, but the challenges he faces are real, and not much different than what many healthcare...
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Lean Digital Strategy

by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3) Can two of the hottest organizational and operational trends from the last 20 years Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma be adapted to pharma? Thats a trick question:...
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