Health 2.0 Europe: “Improving and Enriching the Patient-Provider Relationship”
Last week, I had the opportunity to demonstrate Wellpepper and participate on a panel on “Improving and Enriching the Patient-Provider Relationship” at the Health 2.0 Europe Conference in London. I’m…
9 Best Practice Tips and Techniques for Superior Podcasts and Audio Content
Online audio content—such as podcasts, webinars, interviews and the like—have grown in popularity and availability in the past year or two…with (currently) over a million podcast downloads per month. Online…
Dr. Ronan Kavanagh Discusses Video’s Role in Physician-Patient Communication
Dr. Ronan Kavanagh, rheumatologist in Galway, Ireland, has a way with video. He uses it to communicate with certain patients, with many correspondents, and since his presentation at Doctors 2.0…
Nanoparticle Pills Usher Medicine Into the Future: No More Needles!
Although nanomedicine is a promising area of research, scientists have been unable to figure out a way to deliver drugs using nanoparticles other than by injection, which is both distasteful…
HINZ: Health IT in New Zealand
My colleagues had warned me and sure enough, the moment I got off the airplane in Rotorua, New Zealand, I immediately picked up the rotten egg aroma of sulfur that…
Social Media, Research and Community Managers
One of the best perks of my new job at ELLICSR at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is the opportunity to collaborate with a team of researchers, most notably Jackie…
Attack of the Superbugs: Time to Stand Up Against the Antibiotics Feeding Frenzy
The warnings keep coming. The studies keep warning. We are overdoing it on antibiotics. They are over-prescribed by our doctors. They are over-supplied to our farm animals. And we seem…
Get the Most Out of RSNA by Using the RSNA 2013 Mobile App
Last year, we wrote a blog post detailing how to get the most out of RSNA using social media. Those tips are still accurate and make for a helpful guide…
Morning-After Pill Doesn’t Prevent Pregnancies for Women Over 176 Lbs.
The European company HRA Pharma, which makes Norlevo, a morning-after pill that is chemically identical to the U.S. The European company HRA Pharma, which makes Norlevo, a morning-after pill that…
Creative Proposal for Spreading Fewer Germs in Hospitals: Fist Bumping
First published on MedCityNews.com. Here’s an interesting proposal from researchers at West Virginia University School of Medicine: Healthcare could prevent nonsocomial infections by taking a cue from bro culture. First published…
