As part of its efforts to give patients a stronger voice in clinical trial design, PatientsLikeMe has opened up a hub where researchers, clinicians, academics and patients can refine and ...
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This is a guest post by Patrick Ward, CEO and founder of PR firm 104 West. I feel like I have this same argument at least twice a year when ...
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Do startups need a video strategy? I’ve been in and around the "video for business" industry for the last six years and I get asked this question by startups quite ...
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There was a really interesting article in The Wall Street Journal about how GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) monitored public forums on BabyCenter.com and WhattoExpect.com.According to the article, GSK used text analytics ...
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Some of the venture capital investors behind the Glass Collective, a project that will provide seed funding for developers and companies creating apps for Google Glass, said recently that they’re ...
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Finding it hard to focus on work or counting the minutes until 5? Take a work-related Pinterest break. Paul Sonnier, the founder of the Digital Health group on LinkedIn, has ...
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Motivating people to change their health behaviors is a tricky feat, but people sure are trying. In fact, the number of fitness tracking applications and workplace wellness companies that exist ...
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How should doctors behave online? This is a funny question, isn't it? A group of doctors came up with a 14-page, 6,000 word instruction manual. These 10 rules work just ...
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A Twitter hashtag, two Google docs, and several other "how to help" sources sprang up soon after the two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon. ...
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Dr. Sushrut Jangi, a Boston Globe correspondent, was in the medical tent at the end of Boston Marathon course. He described what it was like to go from treating runners ...
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Simon Zhang, data analyst and former neurosurgeon, reports that there are now one million doctors and nurses in the US using the social networking site.What are they doing? Looking for ...
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Apparently, there are still some Twitter holdouts in the science world. Ben Paylor writes on the Signals Blog:A recent piece in Regenerative Medicine by Lee Buckler argues that social media ...
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The annual hospital rankings dished out by U.S. News and World Report may not be pulling the same weight they once did, as criticism over the last few years of ...
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While the lack of FDA guidance on social media has kept some medical companies away from online channels where patients are gathering. But that fear may not be as real ...
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A healthcare startup led by a co-founder and former chief operating officer of WebMD works with insurers and employers to provide a social support network for members with chronic conditions. ...
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