Category Archives: pharmaceutical sales
Health Wonk Review July 2018: Summer’s Coming Around Again
Watching the ships roll in, and we watch them roll away again… Seasons come and seasons go. Yes, in healthcare, too. We’ll open this week’s HOT Health Wonk Review looking at an enduring issue as Roy Poses of Health Care … Continue reading
Fresh Health Wonk Review for a Fresh New Year
Joe Paduda gets the year started with his fresh edition of Health Wonk Review: Ring in the New year with the latest and greatest… posted at Managed Care Matters. Here’s Joe: “Blog posts! Health Wonk Review returns to the inter-webs … Continue reading
Our Short-Sighted and Divided Country Looks for an ACA Replacement
We have short attention spans and shorter memories. That serves politicians well but it makes bad policy. Say, for example, you decided to run for President of the United States but you pulled a really stupid college-style prank, like plagiarizing … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review Election Edition – Mama Says Eat Your Peas and Don’t Forget to Vote
Voting this presidential year feels a little like being forced to eat your peas; it’s the right thing to do but you have to hold your nose. An educated populace is the bedrock of a sober and productive small “d” … Continue reading
If I could choose only one healthcare topic two months before the election, it would be…
…difficult to choose. The escalating cost of drugs is an election year favorite Then there are several reports this week that electronic health records are a PITA to doctors, and I don’t mean the kind wrapped in flatbread Let’s not … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review: The Early Bird Catches the Worm Spring Edition
Tradition is important, and it has become a Health Wonk Review tradition to have a theme for each edition. Usually, the edition’s host organizes content by topic or finds some overarching theme to propel the issue forward. In the spirit … Continue reading
Behavior Change Driving Digital Health is Bubbling Up from the Bottom
This week marks one month since ePharma Summit 2016 opened and closed. It’s a good time to reflect on a final takeaway from the conference and close my notebook. Clearly, there is more grand thinking about the future and emphasis … Continue reading
Talking Past Each Other: Patient Engagement is More Than a Slogan
By Peggy Salvatore This is one of a series of blogs posted out of the ePharma Summit 2016 where pharmaceutical marketing folks talked tech for three days. The future is here. We just need to recognize it and start using … Continue reading
Why Digital Health Is About Survival
This is the seventh entry in a series of blogs for ePharma Summit 2016 to explore ways the pharmaceutical industry can maximize the promise of digital health. Whether it is data collection in the electronic patient record, information in the claims data … Continue reading
Money Changes Everything Edition of Health Wonk Review
Steve Anderson is seeing green at MedicareResources.org this week for his compilation of health wonkery. Read this week’s Money Changes Everything edition here.