What happens when a pharma or healthcare product suddenly needs to communicate a newly found risk? Can new media channels such as social media be more effective than traditional methods?
62. About two-thirds of online European physicians use Wikipedia as a medical resource monthly or more often – and they’re even recommending it to patients. –Manhattan Research
And there’s quite a bit for them to find. Nielsen BuzzMetrics tracks more than 1350 sites, blogs, forums, and discussion groups. On average, there are about 83,000 new discussions per day. On WebMD alone, this number is 1,840. Point is, they’ve got a lot to sift through and pharma companies have a lot of areas to track.