You know you've been there. You want to find a new doctor or you've already selected a new doctor and you are seeing them for the first time. What do you do? You Google! Before we go any further, let me first suggest that you become a discerning Googler when it comes to healthcare. Many … Continue reading Managing Online Physician Reviews
Pink parties. Pink Ribbons. Pink celebrations. Pink boas. Pink bagels. You name it, it's pink in October. Many people, breast cancer patients and others, find empowerment and emotional comfort in "pink." Many feel as if they have done good by participating or buying a "pink" good. As I've mentioned before in my post, Missed Opportunities: Celebrities … Continue reading Dying for a cure this Pinktober: Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness
Welcome back to my three part series on creating a best in class healthcare social media strategy. Part one discussed the building blocks of a social media strategy, and important questions that all brand managers and communications professionals should ask before sending that first post. Part two focuses on content strategies for Facebook and Twitter … Continue reading Online Content Strategies and Paid Promotions in Healthcare Social Media
What you know can save you. Family health history is information about diseases that run in your family and other factors like diet and lifestyle that may affect your family's health. Knowing this information can help you and your physician partner together to develop a personalized health management plan. In fact, you may be able to … Continue reading Six Family Health History Resources
This week we'll do a very basic overview of how underlying brain structures and biochemistry shape the way we behave to better understand why we don't always do the things we should do, related to our health, even when we know we're making suboptimal choices. I know you've been there. You have the choice between … Continue reading The Cost of Not Doing: The Neuroscience of Engagement
Design thinking. It's the "it" buzzword these days, but what does it mean for healthcare and patient engagement? Design thinking is human centered. Design thinking is synonymous with the firm IDEO, a global design consultancy. Week three of Stanford's Patient Engagement class was "Design Thinking for Patient Engagement" lead by Dennis Boyle. Mr. Boyle is a … Continue reading Design Thinking for Patient Engagement
Every marketer's dream is that their product becomes so integrated into your life, so ingrained into your daily activities, so necessary that it becomes a basic need. Week two of Stanford's Patient Engagement Design Course was lead by Nir Eyal, a consultant who's new book, "Hooked," focuses on real actionable ways to integrate user experience and … Continue reading Designing for Habit
This is excellent work by METAvivor, the sole US organization dedicated to awarding funding for stage IV breast cancer research. This October let’s take action. Let’s help fund research for the 30% of women who develop metastatic breast cancer. Did you know that metastatic disease only receives 2% of breast cancer research funding? That’s not a typo. 2%. Or, did you know that outcomes haven’t changed for metastatic patients in 10 years? Please, watch this video, all the way to the end, and if you want to make a difference this October, don’t just shop pink. Give money to organizations like METAvivor, that directly fund research for patients.
It has been a crazy and exciting month for METAvivor! We have lots of big news, and the first is our new video. As you’ve come to expect, METAvivor tells it like it is. Tell me what you think!
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