KevinMD is considered to be THE physician voice online. His blog, Facebook page and Twitter stream are all bookmarked by thousands of physicians and patients. In this interview, he shares some of his gems of wisdom, which will help you to improve your online presence, make you more productive and boost your doctor-patient relationship.
The pharmaceutical industry has been dormant throughout the last decades when it comes to finding new business and sales models. The big ones have been keen on keeping competitors out of their businesses by close surveillance or legal action. In order to sustain and grow their revenue, the pharmaceutical industry has one of the most effective salesforces out there, which is why those companies have been doing really well financially – and still do.
We’ve previously written about Healthysparx, an alleged Quora for health. But today we have to re-consider the arguments we’ve made in that post and take the ambitious goals and intuitive user interfaceof such a service into account when looking at Heatlthtap, which had launched only recently in public beta.
Many physicians are frustrated by the fact that for them, time and income are always linked. That’s the problem of many people who are in a service business. But you can cut this link. You can earn money while you sleep – even as a physician.
Physicians have a permission-based approach to work. Most of them think they need a degree for everything. Want to start a business – get an MBA. Go into research – get a PhD or MSc etc. But in the real world, that’s not how it works. Learn how you can earn money on the side while practicing medicine at the same time.
Eine Flensburger Klinik setzt aycan mobile in der Radiologie ein. Wie die Ärztezeitung am 24.9.2011 berichtet, sind sowohl die Patienten als auch die Ärzte vom Einsatz von Apples iPad mit aycan mobile begeistert.Im Diakonissenkrankenhaus setzt Chefar…
We are eagerly awaiting the upcoming Health 2.0 Confernce in Berlin on October 27/28 2011. Team MedCrunch will be part of the entire conference talking to startups and grasping the status of Health 2.0 in Europe in general. The programme so far is ecclectic and diverse and it looks like it’s going to be a promising event. The best way to get a feeling for this unique event is scrolling trough the schedule, so here we go: Thursday 27 October 2011 12h00 Registration opens 13h00 Welcome and keynote address Nino MANGIAPANE, Head of eHealth and Telematics, Ministry of health (DE)* 13h30 Health 2.0 — Introduction and state of play A tour of the latest and greatest in Health 2.0 from around the world, a vision for the future of Health 2.0 in Europe. by Matthew HOLT and Indu SUBAIYA, co-founders of Health 2.0 (US) and very special guestsincluding… Roberto ASCIONE, Publicis Healthware International (IT) Christoph GOETZ, Bavarian Administration of Statutory Health Care Physicians / KVB (DE) Gábor GYARMATI, Szinapszis Group (HU) Frank NEUMANN, BIG Direkt (DE) Roman RITTWEGER, Advisors in Healthcare (DE) Kai SOSTMANN, Charité University Hospital (DE) 15h00 Refreshment break in the exhibit area – or catch the Deep […]
Most of us have been there. We have delivered sound and tested health advice to our patients but the patients just won’t listen. We tell them again, still to no avail. Frustration sets in and we ask ourselves why the he** they come to us in the first place when they won’t do what we tell them to. It’s not that these patients are stupid by any means. Many of them are really smart and successful. They might even have a university degree, drive expensive cars, live in beautiful houses etc. So most of them know the art of setting goals and achieving them. So what’s the problem we are facing here? We think that the whole health-communication paradigm is broken. Why? Becaus health itself is a misnomer and in this post we are going to tell you why. What is “health” to most people? If you ask your patients, they will come up with a sentence that sounds something like “not being sick”, “not being in the hospital”, “feeling good without disease” etc. So essentially to them, health is the absence of disease (we know the WHO and other entities have a different definition of health but they just […]
We’ve previously reported several times on the interaction between physicians and pharmaceutical companies. We’ve also argued to some extent the model is dead. Pharma reps are expensive and pharma has transitioned into a sales business,…
With the new certified OsiriX PRO Workstation with 64-bit, aycan emphasizes its competence in digital image processing once more. Besides bug fixes, new innovations are also implemented in the latest version.The most important features are:OS X Lion su…