DHR Interviews Dean Stephens

While at Healthline’s offices in San Francisco, we spoke with Dean Stephens President & COO of health search engine Healthline about online health search and of course, Google.

An e-patient speaks: Amy Tenderich

After being diagnosed with Type I diabetes, Amy Tenderich went to one of the first places many Americans go for health information: the Internet. Unfortunately, Tenderich had a hard time finding useful and relevant health content. Rather than complaining, Tenderich decided to put her considerable writing skills to work and launched DiabetesMine.com.

DHR Interviews Matthew Holt & Indu Subaiya

Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya are the co-founders of the Health 2.0 conference. Digital Health Revolution traveled to San Francisco to talk with Holt and Subaiya about the Health 2.0 movement. What is it? Where is it going? And is it just another tech buzzword?

Connecting health issues online: John De Souza

Using the internet to connect with others about health issues is old news. Since way before the dotcom crash, MedHelp was the poineer in bringing people together online to discuss health related issues. In this episode of The Digital Health Revolution, we chat with John De Souza, CEO of Med Help about the future of his breakthrough company.

DHR Interviews Jim Edwards

This episode of The Digital Health Revolution features Jim Edwards, formerly of the marketing publication BrandWeek. He talks about the impact of social media on journalism, the pharmaceutical industry, public relations and his experiences writing BrandWeekNRx, the magazine’s blog.

Organized Wisdom

Unity Stoakes, co-founder of OrganizedWisdom.com, joins us to discuss the company’s recent relaunch as a “human powered” health-focused search engine. Interestingly, rather than taking aim at search giants Yahoo! and Google, Stoakes has focused on partnering with these companies in a bid to make them more useful and relevant to people looking for health-related information online. Stoakes discusses why OrganizedWisdom changed course and the impact of online search on patients.

The e-Patient Revolution

Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet & American Life Project discusses research that sheds light on how Americans are using and being influenced by the Internet. For the past decade Fox has led the way in helping us understand how the Internet is impacting the lives of Americans from all walks of life. In this episode, she talks about a concept that was introduced in the 1990s, but has only recently begin to gather steam: the e-patient revolution.

The Johnson & Johnson Blog

Join us for a candid conversation with Marc Monseau of Johnson & Johnson. Earlier this year his company became one of the first large health corporations to start an official corporate blog. In this installment, Marc talks about the evolution of his corporate blog, JNJ BTW, and how social media is influencing the health industry.

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