The ubiquitous “Dr. Google” has allowed patients to be more involved in their own healthcare than ever before. The idea of the engaged patient, through the power of digital, has now become the “empowered” patient.

Empowerment: aider le patient à devenir acteur de sa santé | PharmaSphere on 4- PATIENT EMPOWERMENT & E-PATIENT by PHARMAGEEK curated by Lionel Reichardt / le Pharmageek

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The current state of health gaming By Jonah Comstock As Games for Health organizer and DigitalMill cofounder Ben Sawyer pointed out at the 2014 Games for Health conference, health gaming had some big milestones in the past year — events that may...

Monitoring children’s breathing rate is commonly done simply by using a stopwatch, but it turns out that just about any smartphone can be a perfect respiratory monitor.

As we await word from the FDA on final social media guidelines and, before any biopharma organization implements social media we need to understand “why” patients are using social media for health, what THEY want and need and how social media impacts healthcare decision making. U.S. consumers’ de...