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7 Pet Peeves of a Healthcare Tech Reporter

Healthcare journalists source a significant amount of the stories they write from emailed pitches. To make the media relations process more fruitful for everyone involved, I laid out my top seven pet peeves as a healthcare technology reporter so public relations representatives have a better understanding of which behavior to avoid.

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A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma

A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.

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Our favorite video interviews from ATA2015

If you were at the just-concluded American Telemedicine Association annual meeting in Los Angeles, you likely saw the MedCity News Media Pavilion in the exhibit hall. We interviewed about two dozen newsmakers and interesting attendees on camera. Here is a taste of what we produced.

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MedCity News’ top 10 most shared stories of 2014

There are different ways of interpreting what some of the big trends in healthcare news were throughout the year on our site. We’ve looked at how stories varied in terms of the number of times people clicked on them, but an even better way to understand what resonated with readers is to look at which […]