New patient education and tools and technologies are helping to fill the monstrous gap in patient-physican communications.But even the best tools have to address the need for simple ,clear communication for both parties.PharmaVoice taps experts form all sides of the patient education specificatrum to find out what they believe make for the most effective interactions…

So who are these ‘patients’ that everyone’s talking about? UK agency Healthcare Research Worldwide(HRW) has gone some way to finding out with its work on patient complaince – or rather non-complaince. The firm began looking into the issue in 2005 having heard much talk about the compliance issue, but seen little action to address it.Caroline…

Listening to doctors and patients talk A Fort Washington firm offers health-care clients a chance to hear what they say to one another. When Zaccary Newsham-Quinn, 4, visits his pediatrician in Levittown, the doctor, Nathan Zankman, asks if he would be willing to have their conversation recorded for use in medical research. Zaccary’s mother, Danielle,…

FORT WASHINGTON, Pa, December 18, 2007 – Verilogue, inventor and leader of new technology for Point of Practice™ pharmaceutical market research, announces plans for leveraging its $4 million in financing from Edison Venture Fund of Lawrenceville, NJ. Verilogues patent-pending technology system captures real-time physician-patient conversations at the Point of Practice™. The companys large, nationwide database of…

AppLabs, a software testing firm based in Center City Philadelphia, was named Technology Company of the Year at the Eastern Technology Council’s 15th annual Enterprise Awards dinner Thursday night. Auxilium Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:AUXL), a Malvern, Pa., pharmaceutical company, was named Technology Company Life Sciences Company of the Year. Read the full story