Archive for the ‘Awareness’ Category

Researching the latest EU commission view point on social media, I came across this very upsetting conclusion from a review on the state of patient information in Europe:

Today huge inequalities exist in terms of availability and accessibility of information between different population groups and between EU member states.
Health related websites are amongst most frequently visited [...]

Exactly 20 years ago today, one of the most horrific monuments of the cold war came down: the Berlin wall.
I remember strolling through East and West Berlin some days after the fall and hearing a reporter say: “Everyone who is not dead, is walking the streets of Berlin right now.” And it surely felt this [...]

Today, I was looking for information for my Dad who is a type 2 diabetic. I was interested to see, if a certain type of insulin could control his diabetes better. Naturally, I went online and typed the product in question into Google. The site that came up was the American product site. There [...]

Jon over at dose of digital just wrote a great post asking Can Social Media Improve Your Health or Change Your Life?
“Of course it can!“ was my immediate thought, followed by a rush of utter frustration: “Why do you still need to explain this to people?“
As I was biking along the foggy path lining [...]

Each life-impacting disease today has its set of highly engaged e-patients or “optimized me’s” (as  Christine Kraft calls them). These patients do everything that is possible and imaginable to improve the quality and access to health care for the patient communities they serve.

They are of essential importance in influencing other patients’ behaviors and attitudes. [...]

Most pharma online campaigns focus on raising awareness about a disease and/or a treatment (depending on the legal constraints in each country). Yet, at least for me, they usually fail to raise the emotion and urgency required to drive me to action (ie. sign up for screening, go see my doctor etc.). To be fair, [...]


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The Internet holds the power to profoundly change the way healthcare is delivered. Millions of patients, caregivers and physicians turn to the Internet every day to look up the latest information on important health topics and find support from like-minded people.

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