Zoomedia Blog

Personalized shopping, stock trading, and online portals - all have become hallmarks to our new information driven culture that has become increasingly focused on the individual. Looking beyond these innovations, the focus on addressing the individual needs of patients, or more commonly known as personalized medicine, has become a focal point within the debates of healthcare reform. But is personalized medicine really something that we can enact within the confines of the current IT infrastructure and patient educational services?

Tags: Personalized Medicine, Product Strategy, Investor Strategy, Global Strategy, Patient Strategy

Recently, I have had more doctor visits, tests, and prescription drugs than in my entire 41 years. I put it down to people being like cars - once you fiddle with one part something else gets broken. Anyway, as a way to keep myself entertained while waiting in doctor's offices, hanging out in the ER, and waiting in line at Walgreens, I decided to start tracking my "Patient as a Consumer" experience in this blog.

Tags: Personalized Medicine, Product Strategy, Patient Strategy

In my many years as a yoga practitioner (or yogini as they say) I heard the same thing many times from those that felt unfit or unable to practice yoga: "Oh, I could never take on yoga, I can't even touch my feet..." My answer to them was always the same, 'anyone can do it', and if you stick with me for a couple of paragraphs I will explain how this statement relates to my conviction that even the pharma industry can embrace and practice web 2.0 and social networking.

Tags: Web 2.0, Social Media, Patient Strategy, Product Strategy

Recently, I dove head first into the social media space. Sure, I develop social medial platforms for our clients, I’m on LinkedIn and occasionally, go onto Facebook to interact with friends and family, but I was always reluctant to take the full plunge. Part of my resistance was the fear of opening up a floodgate of communication that would be distracting and difficult to control. Instead the opposite has happened. I’ve found people I have not talked to in years, gotten involved in groups that have educated me on everything from design to politics, and generally have a new dynamic way of reaching out to my peer group.

Tags: Web 2.0, Social Media, Product Strategy, Patient Strategy, Global Strategy

I Google, we all Google, but do you iGoogle? We are all exposed to more and more information from a myriad of sources and for me at least it is a constant challenge to refer to multiple sites and sources while I am working on projects. I have been using iGoogle - essentially a personalized Google home page to perhaps bring the mountain to Mohammed ...

Tags: Google, Transforming Technology, Product Strategey, Global Strategy, Patient Strategy, Web 2.0