Walking the Path

Grandma’s a Teenager: The Importance of Digital Age

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:00:04 +0000

She’s 72, texting her girlfriend in Florida, and dissing her Medicare Part D supplemental health plan on Facebook. No, it’s not a scene from Freaky Friday – you might remember, the Disney movie (whether Old School with Jodie Foster or updated with Lindsay Lohan). It’s digital age coming to communications. While we assume that younger people are [...]

Causal Conversation Webinar – How NORD and Siren Interactive Raised Awareness & Sparked Action for 2010 U.S. Rare Disease Day

Fard Johnmar — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:38:54 +0000

As many of you are aware, we had to cancel last week’s highly anticipated Webinar focusing on the #SXSH conference due to an unprecedented snow emergency in New York state. While we couldn’t focus on the conference beforehand, we plan to devote a future Casual Conversation Webinar to SXSH and what Shwen Gwee and his [...]

Webinar Canceled

Sarah Ragsdale — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:16:56 +0000

Today’s Webinar is Canceled due to NYC weather. Keep up with the Path of the Blue Eye project by subscribing to our RSS feed and/or downloading our nifty widget. Also, get more insight and information at our knowledge community, Living the Path, by clicking here.

Community and Conversation via Social Media in Europe: A Dialogue with #hcsmeu’s Founders (Part I)

Fard Johnmar — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:28:30 +0000

Last year, Silja Chouquet of WhyDotPharma and Andrew Spong of STweM launched a unique pan-European initiative designed to “explore and highlight how social media could revolutionize healthcare by increasing patient focus, improving access to services and gathering high quality patient outcome data.” They launched a twitter conversation community, #hcsmeu, that currently boasts an active global [...]

Is Let’s Move Already Doomed to Fail?

Fard Johnmar — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:49:08 +0000

Are you excited about First Lady Michelle Obama’s new anti-childhood obesity initiative, Let’s Move? You should be. But, before you get too enthusiastic, consider recent history. Early in the last decade a new public health initiative was launched to great fanfare and public acclaim. The cause: reducing childhood obesity. Funding was appropriated, policymakers were corralled and [...]