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Information Technology for Health Advocacy: American Cancer Society's Social Media Strategy
One constantly voiced theme for marketing or advocacy in social media: Listen, don't just talk. (Also, perhaps not coincidently, good advice in effective leadership circles as well.) So one crude rule of thumb for assessing whether an organization "gets it" is how much their social media strategy emphasizes listening. Interactivity naturally implies responding to what is heard, and advocacy requires some degree of broadcasting information. But listening—while arguably the most important—is often the least intuitive. To get a sense of how the American Cancer Society (ACS) approaches information technology and social media for ...
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Women's Health: Tsunamis, Natural Disasters, Resilience and Coping Revisited: A Little Help is Good
A few weeks ago, I posted an article that largely agreed with a researcher's findings that people are naturally resilie...
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Pharmaceutical Data-Mining, Health Care Privacy and "Free" Speech: Sorrell vs. IMS Health
Today the US Supreme Court is due to hear arguments in Sorrell vs. IMS Health, a pharmaceutical data-mining case that h...
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Who Can Fix Health Care? TEDx Talk @Dartmouth
Who Can Fix Health Care? - That's the question posed by Dr. Al Mulley. director of the Center for Health Care Delivery...
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Modern Drug Marketing: An Unsustainable Model
Cymbalta. Abilify. Lunesta, Chantix and that drug for "when the time might be right." As a consumer and especially a...
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What the Budget Cuts Mean for Health Care
If you have trouble managing a few thousand dollars in your bank account, you may be sympathetic to Congressional polit...
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Sustainable Health IT: A Plan for Healthcare-Generated e-Waste?
As American and world health care systems move towards increased reliance on health information technology, there's a c...
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How Much Does Your Insurance Pay Your Doctor; Do You Care?
There are a few cost comparisons we are familiar with when comparing health insurance options, while choosing an insura...
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Feds Aren't the Only One Struggling with Budgets
As the Congress and the President hammer out the final details of the budget, states are facing their own difficulties....
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Leveraging EMR to Embed Comparative-Effectiveness Research into Clinical Practice
A new approach to health care delivery may well provide a first taste of the value that can be realized when health IT...
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Wisdom of the Crowd: What Health Reform Might Look Like If Voters Had Their Say
As legislators torture health reform to a slow and painful death with ideological wrangling, a new survey just released...
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Hi-Tech Radiation Risks (part 1): Airport Backscatter X-Rays
A newly published report related to cancer risks posed by modern technology may well lower growing concerns about the s...
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Mental Resilience: How People Overcome Tsunamis, Meltdowns and other Disasters
The world is full of people suffering. Tsunamis, earthquakes, epidemics and other natural disasters are obvious stre...
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Guess How Many Calories Are In This Meal
Last year's American health care reform bill has faced controversy over providing medical care to uninsured and underi...
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Bariatric Surgery is Cost-Effective for Diabetes Patients
Approximately 285 million people around the world suffer from type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes (formerly known as adult...
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Do High Deductible Health Plans Reduce Cost?
Health reform and health care redesign inevitably fixates on reducing costs. Yes, there's always the idea that we might...
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Health Care Delivery Science: Management is Key to Affordable Quality
One of the most exciting advancements in today's health industry is the growing field of health care delivery science....
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New Drug Could Help Alzheimer's Patients
Zileuton, a drug that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat asthma has been shown t...
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Human Trafficking as a Public Health Crisis Part 3: What One Person Can Accomplish
What can one person accomplish? Dr. Paula Heron is a a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kentucky. Born in...
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Human Trafficking as a Public Health Crisis: Part 2
This is the second part of a three-part series focusing on human trafficking from a public health perspective. Mala...
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Walmart's $4 Generic Drug Pricing: Rx for $6 Billion in Savings?
Wal-Mart triggered an industry "race to the bottom" in terms of generic drug pricing when it introduced its program to...
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