A surprise at this year’s Thanksgiving dinner was that a majority of my friends (who do not work in biopharma) at the dinner table heard about the FDA warning letter issued to 23 & Me, a biotechnology company that offers a direct-to-consumer genome test kit. Almost all of them have used the kit and find […]
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Staying Relevant in the Ever-changing Healthcare World: A Case of Cancer Research
What is so fascinating about today’s business world is that technologies have generated ubiquitous connectivity we have never seen before. The subsequent competition and interdependence among companies across industries have created brand-new business functions and partnerships. Who would think that the rising of technology companies like Google, Facebook and Salesforce would one day lead to […]
Air Pollution in China Emphasizes the Complexity of Public Health in a Connected World
The past winter was a really bad one for people living in China–the smog in several major cities had reached record level. The issue has created several conversation peaks in China’s popular Twitter-like social network Weibo. Among the frustrated residents of cities affected the most were some of China’s super rich. Pan Shiyi, a billionaire in […]
Why Discussions around Whether to Patent Human Genes Matter to Everyone
NPR yesterday published an article reporting on a high profile case about patenting human genes, which generated a lot of chatter among both biotech business and science communities. Fortunately, it looks like as of now, I still don’t have to pay for genes I got from my mom and dad–the Supreme Court was skeptical about […]
- Beyond16,000 #ASCO13 tweets: leveraging the use of social media for ASCO and the oncology community
- Twitter: A Social Soundtrack for Medical Meetings
- Big Data and healthcare PR: from volume to value
- Venture capital indicates trends of digital health
- Reading medical journals can actually be fun: how digital and social media transforms medical journal publishing
- Why Foreign Companies Should Take Chinese Social Media Seriously
- FDA Warning Letter Highlights Disconnect Between Regulator & Biotech Industry
- Reducing Health Care Costs: It’s About Time to Try What has Worked
- Trust is What Makes Health Care Work–A Success Story from Belgium
- Physician Communication and Patient-centered Care: What Healthcare Provider Organizations Can Do to Improve Internal Communication
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kcoxinbk: Interesting- and scary- because if it's TRUST that…
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Mayra Mejia, MS: Reblogged this on digitalvisionmd.com.…
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Editor: Reblogged this on Health Care Social Media Monitor…
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Helen Adamopoulos (@BHR_Adamop): Great post. I covered this issue as well: http://b…
- Healthcare Communication Industry Tests New Offerings as Health Care Reform Evolves | Thoughts From Broad Street: […] few weeks ago, I wrote an article about …
