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How healthy is your digital engagement strategy? World-class ‘olympian’, or ‘gasping for breath’? We’ve put together a quick and fun tool for you to self-diagnose the health of your digital engagement. Just answer the seven questions below and see how your score adds up.
We recommend that you take this simple self-diagnosis check whether your focus [...]
When it comes to supporting patient care in a relevant and engaging way through digital technologies, there is a huge amount of potential yet to be exploited. Last year we wrote about ’serious games’ for health, and Creation Healthcare’s Susi O’Neill outlined how technology can be used to make healthcare fun.
Serious games can provide a [...]
When we announced the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Award winners in January, we awarded PatientsLikeMe the ‘Changing Healthcare Award‘ for having the engagement strategy we felt was most likely to change healthcare. Speaking with PatientsLikeMe co-founder Ben Heywood, it was clear that there was much more to come from the team behind what must be the [...]
Information about regulation is at the top of pharma marketers’ wish list when it comes to digital marketing, according to research conducted by the organisers of DigiPharm Europe 2010 amongst delegates of last year’s conference.
Planning Europe’s largest pharma marketing conference
Creation Healthcare is working with the organisers of DigiPharm Europe 2010 conference, which takes place 28 [...]
For over a decade, not-for-profit organisations and governments have worked to close the so-called ‘digital divide’, a term for the gap in access to information and education between those with access computers and the Internet, and those without. This has largely been a gap between the rich and the poor, with the rich able to [...]
We’re looking forward to Health 2.0 Europe conference in Paris in April, where we will be taking part in a presentation of successful digital engagement by Pfizer.
The conference is set to be an exciting event showcasing innovation in healthcare taking place in Europe. As Denise Silber, president of Basil Strategies, Health 2.0’s partner for Europe, [...]
2009 was a year in which healthcare engagement took some giant leaps forward. By the start of the year, platforms for digital engagement had matured to the point where it was possible to reach and engage with a wider community of health stakeholders than ever before.
Treating more than half a million patients a year from its clinics across the US, you might expect Mayo Clinic to know something about patient needs. What impressed us especially about Mayo Clinic’s healthcare engagement is that it has gone far beyond the natural reach of its physical clinic locations to improve healthcare for patients all around the world.
At the heart of the vision behind TuDiabetes is a simple goal: to provide a platform for people touched by diabetes to connect. And the social network websites at www.tudiabetes.org and Spanish version at www.estudiabetes.org, run by The Diabetes Hands Foundation, do just that – with almost 20,000 members between them spanning the globe, they form a highly active community of people joined by a common medical condition.
In contrast to many of the rich engagement strategies we’ve highlighted in the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards, computertan.com is a very simple, directly engaging campaign. The concept is straightforward: raise awareness of the dangers of skin cancer through overexposure to UV rays; reach those most at risk of UV overexposure by luring them to take a free trial of ‘a revolutionary new online tanning service’. Then instead, give them hard truths about skin cancer.
One of the things we like about the ‘Get Real. Get a Prescription’ campaign is the way health stakeholders concerned about patient safety in the UK, worked in partnership to educate consumers about the risk of buying medicines online through unregistered pharmacies.
The J&J Health Channel is used for proactive engagement – it follows others, and makes regular updates and comments. Now, it’s easy to use video for broadcasting messages – we see this all the time amongst healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations. But this channel is also open to comments, and some videos do have a lot of comments!
It’s not the fact that Patientslikeme has a community of 50,000 patients that wins it this Award. It’s not the incredible way it grew a community of almost 10,000 Fibromyalgia patients in 2009 – with over 850 more joining in just the first three weeks of 2010. It’s not even the fact that 10% of US patients diagnosed with MS, and 20% of ALS patients, join Patientslikeme.
These were the most exciting people in healthcare engagement in 2009 – people who brought significant change to healthcare engagement. We haven’t ranked these four winners – they’re here for different reasons but they’re all making a real difference and they’re already inspiring those around them. Watch these if you want to learn how to make a real difference!
We’ve designed the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards 2010 to leave a lasting legacy of knowledge for the healthcare engagement community. Our vision is that by identifying and celebrating the world’s very best healthcare engagement – those strategies, organizations and people who are really making a difference through healthcare engagement – others will learn from their [...]
On the day that we announce the winners of the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards 2010, we will be launching an international seminar program where you can learn from the very best healthcare engagement in the world.
The seminar program kicks off in San Francisco on 26 January 2010, followed by New York on 12 February. European [...]
It’s new, it’s very shiny, and it could be yours when you nominate for the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards.
In January 2010, we’ll be announcing the best healthcare engagement activities from 2009, in the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards. We want to know who, or what, has made the biggest difference in healthcare by engaging people.
If you’re [...]
As nominations for the best in healthcare engagement come in thick and fast, we’re being asked various questions about the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards.
Who’s eligible?
The completely open nature of the Awards means that they’re literally open to anybody or anything that is engaging with others, to achieve health outcomes. That might sound a little vague, [...]
When we announced the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards a few weeks ago, we hoped that we would start a conversation about where the really effective engagement is happening in healthcare.
We’ve been discussing effective engagement in healthcare all year through our Healthcare Engagement Strategy e-journal, but now we wanted to hear more about your ideas. Where [...]
I’ve already described how the unique nature of the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards means there are no predefined categories, no entry fee, and no long-winded nominations. In fact, we’re primarily encouraging nominations by Tweet.
At its simplest, tweet @EngagementStrat and mention #hesawards
So, how should you make an effective nomination? As with many aspects of the Awards, [...]
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