Author Archives: Lisa Meyers

Docs Going Digital

There’s an interesting article in the July 2005 Business 2.0 entitled "Helping Doctors Go Digital." It talks about an application that runs on Palm and Pocket PC devices call Epocrates Essentials (1 in every 4 docs subscribes to it). It is free for basic drug data and starts at $60 a year for information like disease profiles and diagnostics.    ...

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Chronicle of Philanthropy Annual Survey

The June 9th issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy has a number of interesting articles based on their annual survey of Internet giving. It’s not a surprise that online donations grew sharply in 2004 for large charities. While Internet contributions still account for a small percentage of overall fundraising, the growth rate of online donations is outstanding. The charities that ...

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BizWeek Issue on Blogging

Be sure to check out the May 2 issue of Business Week. The cover story, Blogs Will Change Your Business, is pretty good. I’m still making my way through the issue but so far, so good.  The issue also has a piece on corporate blogging, a profile of a blogger, a glossary and a case study of Stonybrook Farms. Check ...

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Good Article re: Docs & PDA Usage

Last month Forrester Research released the findings from its latest survey. Some of the interesting information that stands out includes: U.S. physicians are five times as likely as general consumers to use handheld computers, but less than a third of physicians who have mobile electronic medical records actually use them. Medical residents formed the group most fond of their PDAs, ...

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