Nursing the Flu With Help From Apps
I wasn’t my usual self earlier this week. Some nasty flu bug had beaten me, reducing your usual quirky, chipper columnist to a feverish, bedridden shadow. It’s never fun being ill, and I’ve never been...
View ArticleWhat factors will shape the future of health apps?
With telehealth and at-home care for the aging emerging as new care delivery models, mass adoption of mobile devices and advancing mobile technology - the demand for mobile health apps will continue to...
View Article190.000 individui per studiare le patologie coronariche
Le patologie a carico delle coronarie, insieme alla loro principale complicanza - l'infarto cardiaco, rappresentano una delle principali cause di morte nel mondo, tanto che ad esse sono imputabili...
View ArticleOne in three US adults will buy a digital health product in 2013
One out of every three adults in the US will buy a digital health product of some kind in the next year, Gary Shapiro, the CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), said — citing data from an...
View ArticleA new pharma approach: from (e)detailing to customer & patient excellence
A heavy-hitting strategic deck from Rob Halkes (@rohal) containing a great deal of interest to anyone interested in the industry's evolving business model. Great work, Rob :)See it on Scoop.it, via...
View ArticleOpen Access: a remedy against bad science
Who has never been in the situation that he had a set of data where some of them just didn’t seem to fit. A simple adjusting of the numbers or omitting of strange ones could solve the problem. Or so...
View ArticleThe rise of patient communities on Twitter, visualized (video)
A stunning animated visualisation of the growth in the health conversation on the social web among patient communities from Sympur, using its own curated data.Click on the title link to see the...
View ArticleEurope wants to smash 'barriers' to digital health
As the rise in mobile, connected health management services creates an ehealth boom in the US, Europe launches a strategy to upgrade health systems it concedes are stuck in the 20th century.See it on...
View ArticleLa salute degli Italiani nel 2011
Relazione sullo Stato Sanitario del Paese - RSSP 2011See it on Scoop.it, via SEEdMedicalPublishers
View ArticleThe power of patient-expert books
More and more books are being written by patients -- well-educated, informed patients who manage their illness successfully and have experience, practical knowledge and insights to share with other...
View ArticleNew York eHealth Collaborative Launches Patient Portal Design Challenge
In partnership with Health 2.0 we’ve launched the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, which invites designers and developers to submit prototypes for a secure portal that will present...
View Article7 Consumer Online Trends that Impact Healthcare Marketing in 2013 | Patricia...
The trends & insights about people looking for healthcare information online are interesting and useful in providing important clues for your marketing strategySee it on Scoop.it, via...
View ArticleDoctor-patient interactions about hepatitis C
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View ArticleSocial media has already changed the healthcare landscape irrevocably
As patients increasingly turn toward social media to access healthcare and self-diagnose, the patient-provider relationship is changing, the book argues. The first step in this change came when...
View ArticleForget the Placebo Effect: It's the 'Care Effect' That Matters | Wired...
Nathanael Johnson explores the “care effect” — the idea that the opportunity for patients to feel heard and cared for can improve their health.See it on Scoop.it, via SEEdMedicalPublishers
View ArticleElectronic Health Tracking Increasingly Common, Researchers Say
More Americans are tracking their health using smartphone applications and other devices that collect personal data automatically.See it on Scoop.it, via SEEdMedicalPublishers
View ArticleSocial and mobile continue to converge in healthcare
I’ve been somewhat off the grid for yet another family health crisis lately, but I thought I’d at least surface to update this blog with something quick and easy. Healthcare Web and sof...See it on...
View ArticleQuantifying the digital health revolution
A presentation delivered by Stephen Davies at the Fitness Writers' Association in London, UKSee it on Scoop.it, via SEEdMedicalPublishers
View ArticleGeneric and biosimilar medicines
SEEd Medical Publishing's insight:Once intellectual property protection, data and marketing exclusivity of reference medicines have expired, generic medicines and biosimilar medicines can enter the...
View ArticleHow Social media has transformed the way we think about disease, its...
Tasteless comments about the growth of social communication often fall back on the hackneyed metaphor of "spreading like a cancer." The growth is uncontrolled, we are told, metastasizing in unexpected...
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