The Digital Health Council (DHC) was created to serve as the collective public voice and provide a national public forum for the discussion of current and future issues relevant to digital and electronic marketing of healthcare products and services. I am honored to serve on the Council’s advisory board.
On October 13, 2011 at the Marketing to the Digital Consumer conference in Fairfield, NJ (hosted by DTC Perspectives), I participated on a panel with some of my fellow DHC advisory board members. My fellow panelists were:
Mark Bard, Co-founder of the Digital Health Coalition
Joan Mikardos, Senior Director, Digital Center of Excellence, Sanofi
Jeremy Shane, President and Chief Operating Officer, HealthCentral
Jay Goldman, VP Strategy, Klick
Gautam Gulati, Chief Medical Officer, Physicians Interactive Holdings
My opening comments commenced as follows:
In my opinion, social media must be viewed primarily as a way to advance public education, public health, adherence, compliance – all the things we say are really important – but always come second to selling product. We’re not going to advance the use of social media as long as we’re stuck in “sell” mode. When we move towards advancing the public health we begin to revive the mission of the pharmaceutical industry.
A transcribed version of the panel discussion has been created as a white paper and can be found here. No punches were pulled.
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