Early Stage Palliative Care – Can it Improve Healthcare Quality and Lower Costs?
Roughly 30% of all healthcare expenses occur in the last year of a patient’s life, and for most patients, it is debatable whether these expenses lengthen life or improve quality of life; in fact, some...
View ArticleCopay Programs –Drug Coupons Improve Healthcare Quality and Lower Costs
Perhaps it’s me, perhaps it’s the times, but before I buy anything these days, I check online for coupons. Today, it was coupons for prescription medications.read more
View ArticleSolving the Oncology Generic Injectable Drug Shortage – It's All About...
Over the past two months, warnings about generic drug shortages have been issued by U.S. senators, leading publications (e.g.read more
View ArticlePersonalized Medicine - A Guide For Consumers
Every day there seems to be something in the News about Personalized Medicine. Many people tune it out thinking, “Really? How is our life better? For 20 years, we’ve been hearing the Human Genome...
View ArticlePersonalized Medicine - Implications for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Executive SummaryIn this series of blogs, we illustrate how personalized medicine is transforming the pharmaceutical industry. When one contemplates the complexity of the future environment, it becomes...
View ArticleLinkedIn Etiquette and Social Media
I’ve found LinkedIn to be a powerful Social Media tool for building and maintaining business relationships. Over the years, I’ve connected with several hundred people, all of whom I know. I’m no Mr....
View ArticleLinkedIn Etiquette: Making Distant Connections with Social Media
I received so much feedback on my last blog about LinkedIn Etiquette, I decided to write a follow-up. One person asked how to effectively connect one of his friends to another friend’s friend, a 3rd...
View ArticleAdvocacy for Patients with Chronic Conditions
Often times I find myself playing an advocacy role for friends and family with chronic conditions, usually cancer since I’ve worked in oncology for the past decade. I’m not a doctor, but since I am a...
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