Accu-Check Engaging with Diabetes Influencers and Patients

In October 2009, Roche Diagnostics launched a Canadian social site called Accu-Check Diabetes Link.  Despite a rather clean and simple look, there appear to be several opportunities within the site to influence the user’s experience. There is the site itself, which encompasses; a blog:  You can subscribe to the blog via RSS or e-mail.  You [...]

CaringVoices: Princess Margaret Hospital Offers Online Support for Cancer Patients

This week, my blog series will be focusing on several Canadian healthcare online social networks.  This is part 3 of 5.  The previous posts of the series can be found here; Upopolis: Social Media for Kids in Hospitals TeenConnector.ca: Where Canadian Teens with Cancer Connect ——————————————— The featured Canadian healthcare social network for today is [...]

Do Canadian patients trust others like them?

Next week, I will be posting a blog series on Canadian healthcare social networks; 1 network reviewed per day! These are online communities where Canadian patients (and sometimes patients from other countries as well), share healthcare-related, and sometimes very personal information with one another. As such, I was interested in learning more about how Canadian [...]