Archive : Health 2.0 and eClinical

We often are asked about the risk of doing something new. However, what is the risk of NOT doing something new? Especially in a world filled with creativity and competition.

“Collaboration” has been used to categorise a wide variety of products. Even with a range of products this broad, I have found seven attributes that separate winning collaboration products from also-rans…

This week the UK airspace was closed for six days due to the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. This led me to ask, “What would happen if airplanes could never fly again?” As “necessity is the mother of invention,” I would prefer to focus on how this would affect innovation. Five technology areas stand out…

In the technology industry, “PII” stands for “Personally Identifiable Information.” However, anyone who provides technology to customers should also think of it as standing for “Privacy Is Important.” Two important events this week—one regarding Google and one regarding Facebook—underscored the importance of this and served as reminders of how important protection of privacy is to mainstream adoption of technology…

Over the last year, I sat down with experts from four different health care organizations (across the US and Europe) to come up with ideas for social media business services that would provide immediate value. This is the second service we came up with. It uses mobile social networks to make coordination between Clinical Trial Sponsors, Principal Investors and Subjects more convenient and cost effective for everyone…

Over the last year, I sat down with experts from four different health care organizations (across the US and Europe) to come up with ideas for social media business services that would provide immediate value. This is the first service we came up with. It uses social media – in a very controlled fashion – to make it faster and easier to enroll subjects into Clinical Trials…