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Health care B2B marketers: If you think ARRA was a big deal—to quote the immortal Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive—you ain’t seen nothing yet. The impending conversion from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS has been on provider’s radar since 2009, but it hasn’t received widespread attention until this year. Its effect on the health care industry has [...]

I caused a minor kerfuffle last month when I expressed my opinion about HIStalk’s advertising options. Mr. HIStalk took some exception when I wrote that Inga “claims to be female and sports a sultry avatar”. Here was his response: An online article suggests that perhaps Inga is a man writing as a woman. I couldn’t [...]

Hanging out with my friends at MedicExchange

by Don Seamons on March 8, 2010

I sat down for a few minutes last week with MedicExchange.com at HIMSS to talk about what was happening on the show floor. The video interview lasted about four minutes, and they used about half of it in their HIMSS edition of MedicExchange TV. My bit is about 30 seconds in. Alex van Klaveren and [...]

Health care IT advertising needs better options

by Don Seamons on February 19, 2010

As a health care marketer, I have a vested interest in the quality of health care journalism. Better content means better audiences, and better audiences mean better advertising opportunities. So it’s a bit ironic to me that the best content is coming from a non-traditional journal with really poor ad options. The journal I’m referring [...]

MedicExchange.com features Health B2B Marketing blog

27 January 2010

Got a nice surprise over the weekend: Alex van Klaveren of MedicExchange.com emailed me to let me know that he would be featuring yours truly in Medic Exchange TV’s inaugural Industry News brief.

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Be a health care news know-it-all in 15 minutes a day

8 January 2010

As a health care marketer and communicator, you need to know how macro issues impact your organization for good or ill. If you do, you can prepare for problems or profit from a trend.

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