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It’s time for socially-competent US pharma companies to stop DTC advertising
Stanford’s Medicine X is always worth following, and this year’s event (4-7 September) was no exception. The 2014 schedule can be found here, with analytics here, and a full tweet archive here. This...
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If this is what facebook’s healthcare initiative is going to be, it won’t work
You may have seen a sketchy news item on the feeds this morning about facebook’s possible plan to make something approximating to a structured intervention into the millions of healthcare discussions...
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‘Patient engagement': a pernicious, presumptive powerplay?
There is a subtle form of power-politics implied in just about every deployment of ‘patient engagement’ you’re likely to encounter that can serve to deprive the patient of authority rather than promote...
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Digital health belongs to the patient
Digital health does not belong to coders Digital health does not belong to entrepreneurs Digital health does not belong to venture capitalists Digital health does not belong to device manufacturers...
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The mobile health entrepreneur: an endangered species?
Twenty years ago, websites were hand-coded in html. Fifteen years ago, websites built using hosted content management systems began to appear. Today, it is possible to build a website with full...
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Five new year’s resolutions for digital health
If you care about health, stop writing about technology Do something for the common good in health, for your own benefit, and for everyone else’s Identify the five healthcare-related buzzwords you use...
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Pundits, prognosticators, philosophers, and practitioners: the exotic species...
In addition to patient, healthcare professional, and provider voices on the social web, I can identify at least four other groups of participants: pundits, prognosticators, philosophers and...
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Your ‘patient engagement strategy’ is embarrassing
“Boiling the ocean.” “Drilling down.” “Thinking outside the box.” It’s time to add a new phrase to the list of things you should never say for fear of embarrassing yourself. “Patient engagement...
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