Category Archives: Patient Communication

Locating the Human Ghost in the Digital Machine

By Clark Herman | Published: October 18, 2012
Featured panelists at ExL’s annual Digital Pharma East conference this week included practicing physicians, vocal ePatients, social media gurus and digital marketing consultants with plenty of hours logged in big pharma boardrooms.
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Customer Engagement: Can Technology Help Find That Sweet Spot?

By William Looney | Published: September 17, 2012
In the rush toward customer engagement, can technology find the sweet spot? Cegedim Relationship Management held its annual conference on trends in the life sciences industry last week, with two days of speakers and workshops focused on the interrelated themes of Transformation and Innovation.  The central question: if the business of pharma is changing at warp [...]
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Challenges in the March Toward an AIDS-Free Generation

By Ben Comer | Published: August 1, 2012
FDA’s approval of Truvada, a once-a-day oral combination of tenofovir and emtricitabine, for pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP, a method for preventing HIV infection) arrived during a chorus of optimism surrounding major developments in the fight against AIDS.
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Heady Ideas for Digital Health Marketing

By Ben Comer | Published: May 1, 2012
If you really want to know what’s on a patient’s mind, it’s best to skip the small talk and go straight to the brain waves, as demonstrated by Neuro Insight CEO Pranav Yadav in the lead-off presentation yesterday at Chandler Chicco’s Pioneers in Digital Health conference.
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Cracking the Adherence Nut: Drug Delivery

By Guest Blogger | Published: April 18, 2012
Chris Evans, West Pharmaceutical Services, and Ed Geiselhart, Insight Product Development, consider the importance of drug delivery systems in facilitating patient adherence. No two patients are alike, but drug-makers may not consider how different a single patient’s perspective can be when viewed over time. A patient’s progress through disease management is a journey, and perceptions change [...]
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