Everyone knows that competition within the technology sector is fast and furious. Especially internet based businesses, where investment requirements are comparatively low, suffer from “hot today, outdated tomorrow” sydrome. However a few companies have recognized that there is more to building long-term competitiveness than just the technology itself, and that secret ingredient is corporate culture. It’s something that takes proper planning and hard work to implement, but if done successfully, can be the determining factor between long term success and failure. Over on the NextWidgets Blog, we’ve posted a few videos of Zappos, the clear leader in customer centric corporate culture on the internet. Check out the vids and let us know what you think about the importance of corporate culture and what it means to you.

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Microsoft Silverlight and My Health Info

by admin on November 23, 2009

One of the coolest demo’s at this year’s Health 2.o conference was Microsoft ‘My Health Info‘ portal. Microsoft has been doing a lot of work on user interface design for healthcare and it really shows in this demo video recorded by Chris McIntyre. I haven’t seen many mentions of this product on the web so far, but personally I think it was one of the most elegant pieces of software on display at the conference.

Microsoft “My Health Info” Demo at Health 2.0 2009 from chris mcintyre on Vimeo.

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Will history repeat itself for Apple ?

November 11, 2009

The current conventional wisdown is that the iPhone is so far ahead of the competition in terms of usability and number of applications available that it’s assured to be the smartphone market leader within a few years. But, according to a recent Vator.tv article, if Apple isn’t careful, history could repeat itself once again.
The year [...]

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FitBit & DirectLife - very cool new lifetsyle monitoring devices

October 20, 2009

Have you ever wanted a device that can automagically track the distance you walk or run each day and even track how much you sleep. And what if that device could easily upload all that data into attractive web reports that would help you get an overview of your lifestyle. Well two new devices, the [...]

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Mobile phone applications in the developing world

October 10, 2009

In comparison to last year’s excellent discussion of mHealth applications in the developing world, there was somewhat of a scarcity of discussion around the topic at this year’s Health 2.0. Except for the presentation by SMSMedic (pls follow their Hope Phones call to donate old phones), I didn’t see any other mention of the topic. [...]

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Thanks to Health 2.0 Conference

October 10, 2009

Many thanks to everyone who came to see our presentation of NextWidgets at Health 2.0 Conference this year. The response from publishers was really great and I’m so happy to have gotten a chance to meet all of you as well as so many of the people that i’ve been communicating with over twitter for [...]

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See you at Health 2.0, San Francisco

September 28, 2009

We’re just about packed and ready to make the long trip over to San Francisco for next week’s Health 2.0 conference where we shall be presenting our NextWidgets product in the “Health 2.0 Around the World” breakout panel at 3:30pm on the 7th of October. Please come down to see us and learn more on [...]

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The connection between pharmacies & pharmaceutical companies in improving patient adherence

September 18, 2009

Introduction
Patient non-adherence is quickly becoming a significant issue within the healthcare industry. The rate of non-adherence and therefore lack of ‘effective treatment’ is prevalent in anywhere between 50% up to a staggering 90% of patients in some cases. The reasons for non-adherence are age and disease specific, and although “forgetting to take medication” is [...]

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Uploading presentation from Medicine 2.0

September 17, 2009

Just a quick note to say that we’ll be uploading the presentation given today at Medicine 2.0 congress in a couple of hours.

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New blog post over at Pharma Marketer

August 25, 2009

We have just published a new blog post on ‘adherence marketing’ over on the new and excellent Pharma Marketer blog. The idea behind the post is that pharma and health insurance companies are starting to have a financial stake in adherence programs and so the article looks at a couple of recent examples and what [...]

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