Healthcare Industry
Social POV: Facebook for Patient Engagement
By Kayla Nelson - October 9, 2018
Since its launch in 2004, Facebook has quickly become the most ubiquitous social media platform. From its early days of connecting students on college campuses,…
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Presenting The 2018 WEGO Health Award Winners
By Kristen Long - October 2, 2018
Year after year, the WEGO Health Awards remind us just how powerful the online health community is. With over 4,000 nominations and over 30,0000 endorsements,…
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Owning Your Health Identity: New Thinking for New Rights
By Corinna Cornejo - October 1, 2018
There’s growing concern that our personal health data, genetic data, and even in some cases our physical cells, are being collected and sold for profit—often…
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In the News: Online Health Communities After Cambridge Analytica
By Kayla Nelson - September 24, 2018
Before the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook seemed to be on an endlessly upward trajectory. One of the platform’s biggest strengths had become group functionality. Over…
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Biological Property Rights: Are Your Cells, Genome, and Personal Data Truly Yours?
By Corinna Cornejo - September 17, 2018
Whether people realize it or not, their every move online, and sometimes offline as well, is being captured by data brokers. These brokers feed a…
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In the News: Four Ways Crowdsourcing Drives Healthcare Innovation
By Kayla Nelson - September 10, 2018
At WEGO Health, we see healthcare innovation happening every day. Our Chief Strategy Officer, David Goldsmith, recently wrote a piece for Forbes highlighting some of…
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Presenting the 2018 WEGO Health Awards Finalists
By WEGO Health - September 5, 2018
We'd like to congratulate all of the nominees in this year's WEGO Health Awards. Every year we are blown away by the nominees and this…
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