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The next killer app: Online communal wisdom should be harnessed for drug development

February 21, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Drug vs Relationship Timeline — Drug vs Relationship Timeline (Photo credit: gemmerich)

It seems a no brainer at this point. But it is about time that the life science industry utilized online communal knowledge for drug development

The next killer app – The Boston Globe.

Killer Apps May be Confusing US (sophisticatedfinance.typepad.com)
Second Screen Killer App: Predictive Gaming is the “Future of Sports Television,” Turner’s Peter Scott (beet.tv)
White Paper on New Models for Accelerated Drug Discovery and Development Is Released (kauffman.org)
Humans Are The Killer App (darmano.typepad.com)
Study identifies potential new pathway for drug development (eurekalert.org)
Four killer iPhone apps that help you lose weight (reviews.cnet.com)
Task Killers: To use or not to use? That is the question. (bestbuymobile.com)
Blog (medmeme.com)
Study identifies potential new pathway for drug development (medicalxpress.com)

Social networks make medicine human again

May 15, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

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An excellent article in Businessweek highlights the fact that Social networks like PatientsLikeMe let people take charge of their own care—changing the nature of drug research and the practice of medicine

Deals of the Week Ponders PatientsLikeMe and Empowerment (invivoblog.blogspot.com)
Merck to draw on social network for psoriasis patients (fiercebiotechit.com)
Merck’s partnership with online patient community could offer innovative way forward for drug development (medcitynews.com)
Online community PatientsLikeMe gets $2 million in new equity investments (medcitynews.com)
Patient-led “clinical trials” versus clinical research (2012 edition) [Respectful Insolence] (scienceblogs.com)
Social network alchemy (thetechblock.com)
The perils of “patient-driven” clinical research (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
Better medicine, brought to you by big data [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Healthy Labs launches its social network for people with chronic conditions (venturebeat.com)
Healthy Labs creates social networks for diseases (vator.tv)