One of the concerns patients often raise is the issue of taking too many medications. Often they will turn to other patients for advice on social media, and we see many of these types of posts on Treato. “When I woke up today, I took eight pills at the same time. Does this sound like [...]
One of the key capabilities of Treato is the ability to understand patient language, in a vast scale. In an earlier post, I wrote about how our Natural Language Processing enables us to do this. In today’s post I’d like to delve a bit deeper with the questions: how do we know how accurate Treato’s [...]
Social media can predict the success of a new drug launch much faster than traditional methods. Many pharmaceutical companies try to measure the success of their launch based on weekly script trends. The difference between social media data and data derived from prescriptions is significant: social media data can predict the future, while script data [...]
There are many questions laypeople and professionals alike can answer about medications by looking at patient posts in social media. Let’s explore a few of them: 1) Why take this drug? Maybe you’ve just been prescribed a new drug, or a member of your family has. Wikipedia is a great place to start learning about [...]
It’s impossible to have a leisurely conversation with me without finding out that I do CrossFit. And by “do”, I actually mean obsessed with. For those of you who aren’t aware of this fast growing global sport, allow me to explain. CrossFit is a sport that works on all aspects of your fitness from cardio [...]
What a journey has just come to an end. A few days ago we announced the completion of our second round of financing at the amount of $14.5 million from healthcare funds OrbiMed Israel and New Leaf Venture, and current investors Reed Elsevier Ventures, Dr. Shmuel Cabilly and Western Technology Investments. The two former funds [...]
Since our Our Favorite Diabetes Communities post was such a success, I decided to follow up with a Breast Cancer post. Here’s a list of some helpful communities. 1. BreastCancer.org My thought process: Let’s name good Breast Cancer forums. Breastcancer.org. Boom. With or without the boom, I’m assuming this great site is everyone’s natural [...]
I spent two days last week in San Diego attending the 55th annual PhRMA meeting. Listening to the industry’s leaders, innovators and researchers, these are some of the key challenges that pharma innovation will need to overcome over the coming years, affecting patients, physicians and industry as one: 1) Startup funding drying up – [...]
While attending the PhRMA summit in San Diego last week with the CEOs and top executives from the leading pharmaceutical companies – Eli Lilly, Sanofi, Celgene, Bayer, Novartis and more - one thing came across loud and clear. Our healthcare system needs to shift its focus to address the future of the entire health ecosystem [...]
Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars developing name-brand drugs, with the understanding that they will earn back that investment during the time they sell the drug under patent protection. But what happens when a generic drug manufacturer can provide a similar drug at a much lower cost, without infringing on the patent? If the generic [...]
