Tag Archives: innovation
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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Tagged #convergeconf, Gigi Peterkin, healthcare consulting, innovation, Pixels and Pills
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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...
Posted in Digital Health, Social Media
Tagged #convergeconf, collaboration, curation, Docphin, information aggregation, innovation, Pixels and Pills, Sachin Nanavati
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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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Tagged #convergeconf, Brandon Rowberry, innovation, Pixels and Pills, United Healthcare
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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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Tagged #converconf, health entrepreneur, HHS, innovation, pixelsandpills, Will Yu
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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...
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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Tagged events, healthcare challenges, information technology, innovation
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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...
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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Tagged Design, innovation, medical devices, usability, usercentric design
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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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Tagged digital conferences, digital marketing, innovation, pharma marketing
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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...
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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Tagged communication, Don Draper, healthcare, innovation, inspiration, Mad Men, marketing, Pharma, Pharmaceutical industry, social media, strategy, Trends
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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:...