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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

This activity sent pharma and biotech companies scrambling to hire DE&I officers and related patient advocacy, engagement, and experience personnel as they came to terms with this foreign notion of actually collaborating with real, live patients. She is currently contracted by Parexel as their first Patient Ambassador.

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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Society for Participatory Medicine

Healthcare stakeholders such as health systems, pharmaceutical companies, biotech and life sciences firms, and insurance companies serve patients as end users. The post Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022 first appeared on SPM Blog. Did you enjoy this post?

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

Health Populi

According to the team’s analysis, Amazon is not yet active in AR/VR, med-tech/biotech, or insurance (but see more on that below via Mike McSherry’s observations). This gives you a sense of Amazon’s current profile in the health/care ecosystem across many areas serving both providers and consumers.

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Healthcare, Heal Thyself! How the Industry Can and Should Play the Trust Card

Health Populi

In my latest essay written for the Medecision Liberation blog , I assert: “Healthcare, Heal Thyself!” Most industries operating in the U.S. also lost consumers’ trust during the pandemic, except for a handful of businesses — most notably, the health care industry gained a lot of American trust-equity from 2020 to 2021.

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Participatory Medicine is Where You Find It

Society for Participatory Medicine

Through his 13 years of experience navigating the healthcare system, he’s worked with different healthcare stakeholders including: patient advocacy organizations, patient influencers, pharma/biotech, genetic counselors, and healthcare recruitment companies. The post Participatory Medicine is Where You Find It first appeared on SPM Blog.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: When PatientsLikeMe was acquired by UnitedHealthcare earlier this year, my friends-in-health-tech Susannah Fox, Lisa Suennen and I wrote a response to the acquisition and situation on each of our blogs, and on Medium. Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019. health care.

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Let’s Connect! What I’m looking forward to most at the Connected Health Conference in Boston

Digital Health Today

The Connected Health Conference also promises an emphasis on the Life Sciences/BioTech and Digital Health, with sessions like the Fireside Chat on Pharma and Digital Health and Transforming the Life Sciences through Digital Health.