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Wendy Blackburn (@WendyBlackburn)
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- Blogger, marketer, focused on pharma, w/ @IntouchSol. Tweet re: #hcmktg & #socpharm. Learn something new every day. Thoughts are my own.
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- The Midwest, USA
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- http://blog.intouchsol.com/
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We don't use our smartphones for talking as much as we once did, but we are and will increasingly use them to detect and monitor health risks, from ear infections to E. coli bacteria in drinking water, industry experts say.
Health app developers initially focused on consumer diet and exercise, said Brian Dolan, editor of Boston-based MobiHealthNews.com, which tracks advances in mobile health and medical technology. "Now we're seeing them look into more serious health conditions where there's a real need for innovation."
Glen Stream, president of the American Academy
I recently tweeted asking about favorite patients, physicians, and students on Twitter and was met with a plethora of shocked tweets at my inclusion of patients as potential Twitter interests.Perhaps other medical friends interpreted this as being similar to meeting people in clinic and asking for their Twitter handle (which is not something I do) or maybe people really think it’s wrong to follow patients on Twitter, I don’t know. However, I do know y’all should be aware of why following people who tweet about their medical problems is beneficial to me as a future physician.I don’t follow all that many people on Twitter – I find it overwhelming
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