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by Danielle Barron · June 11, 2021

PEOF 2021 How to Connect Patients to Digital Health

Google the phrase “digital health” and you’ll get roughly 50 million results. But what does it actually mean for patients in practice?    An umbrella area allowing exponential scaling...

Patient engagement in practice

by Gary Finnegan · June 3, 2021

Putting cardiovascular patients at the heart of the technology revolution

The Global Heart Hub is empowering patients to play a central role in improving their health care. Its founder, Neil Johnson, sees opportunities for medtech and digital health companies...

The impact of patient engagement

by Gary Finnegan · May 28, 2021

The road to patient-centred medtech

As medical technology companies become more patient-centred, industry leaders seek to enter the patient engagement fast lane. There is still some distance to travel. The medical technology sector is...

Patient engagement in practice

by Gary Finnegan · May 17, 2021

Parkinson’s disease: what medtech companies can learn from patients

Involving patients can help deliver innovations that address unmet needs, but it’s still early days for the medtech industry’s patient engagement...

Patient engagement training

by Gary Finnegan · March 24, 2021

How Gilead is evolving its patient engagement mission

Tailored training modules, along with support from company leaders and peer networks, are helping Gilead Sciences renew its focus on patient...

Patient engagement in practice

by Gary Finnegan · March 4, 2021

Virtual events: tips for patient organisations

As more patient advocates embrace online meetings, what’s the secret to attracting, engaging and keeping your audience? A series of webinars takes you through the 33 questions you need...

The patient's corner

by Gary Finnegan · February 26, 2021

The challenges of engaging patients with rare diseases 

Patient engagement requires a critical mass of patients with the time, expertise and language skills to work with medicines developers. For rare diseases, these patients are hard to find,...

The patient's corner

by Gary Finnegan · February 3, 2021

Coping with COVID: Pandemic putting pressure on vulnerable patients 

Vulnerable patients are at risk of serious illness if they are infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. By disrupting research, clinic visits and patient engagement meeting, the pandemic will also...

Tools for patient engagement

by Danielle Barron · January 26, 2021

“A pioneering opportunity”: piloting the first How-To Guide

Danielle Barron speaks to Schiffon Wong, Executive Director, Global Evidence & Value Development at EMD Serono, the biopharmaceutical business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, about how piloting the new...

Tools for patient engagement

by Danielle Barron · January 19, 2021

Meaningful patient engagement proved “invaluable” during pandemic

Danielle Barron speaks to Chiara Andreoli and Lara Bernardi, Patient Focused Development & Medical Insights, GlaxoSmithKline Italy about a patient support programme that proved its worth as the pandemic...

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by Gary Finnegan · January 13, 2021

How patients can make a real impact with virtual events

The pandemic prompted patient organisations to go digital, but many lacked the know-how to host high-impact online meetings. Now, faced with ‘Zoom fatigue’ and shrinking resources, a free webinar...

The patient's corner

by Gary Finnegan · January 6, 2021

‘COVID-19 survivors are coming out as kidney patients’ 

The pandemic prompted the National Kidney Foundation to radically change how it works, compromising fundraising drives – just as demand for its services increased Like all patient organizations, the...