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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Blogs in the time of hyper-communication

August 13, 2009

As Nick Denton so eloquently put it, “every human, and household pet, will eventually have a blog”. That is cerntainly true, but that blog may not come in the form of Wordpress or Blogger or any other ‘traditional’ blogging platform. If blogging is a form of self-expression then twitter and facebook are the subset of [...]

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Alensa becomes member of IG eHealth

August 11, 2009

We have just received word that our application to become a member of the Swiss eHealth association ‘IG eHealth’ has been approved. The association was started in March 2008 with the goal of improving the eHealth landscape in Switzerland with respect to efficiency, quality, safety and cost-effectiveness. In little over a year the list of [...]

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Presentation at Medicine 2.0, Toronto

July 30, 2009

In an attempt to take some of the content from our article on ‘Transformational Internet Technologies for Pharmacies‘ in front of a live audience, I will be presenting our work at Medicine 2.o conference in Toronto taking place between Sept 17th - 18th.
You can see all the other attendees of Medicine 2.0 through their twitter [...]

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Video of the remote doctor

July 15, 2009

We recently had a guest post on Pulse + Signal where we looked at some of the advances in healthcare robotics. Today we came across an article in The Boston Globe which examines how the RP-7 Robot is actually being used in real-life hospital settings. Here’s the video to the article :

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Social networks can’t make money through CPC advertising

July 8, 2009

When you have 200 million users, as Facebook does, and still can’t turn a real profit, you pretty much know that something is wrong with your revenue model. This was the focus of a recent USA Today article which explored the lack of progress being made by social networks in converting eyeballs to revenue. Facebook [...]

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NextWidgets in public beta

July 7, 2009

The cat it out of the bag; we’ve gone into public beta on our distributed e-commerce application NextWidgets. This is the product that we have feverishly been working on for the past year and it’s finally open for business.
NextWidgets does two fabulous things:
1. It allows web publishers such as content websites or blogs to earn [...]

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Guest post on Pulse + Signal

July 2, 2009

If you’ve been following the eHealth blogosphere over the last few years, then you will surely know the fantastic Pulse + Signal blog written by Andre Blackman. Today we were given the opportunity to write a guest post and so we decided to focus on the role of robotics in telemedicine. There’s a lot of [...]

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