THE SHORT: The confusion around the Presidential election, which is ongoing at the time of this post, has a lot of similarities with online health information. As social media becomes a bigger part of information gathering for health seekers they are often making bad treatment decisions based on what they read.
Category Archive: Health information online
IN SUMMARY: Online health seekers are using the Internet differently since the pandemic. Treatment options are researched more, and people are using, but not relying, on social media to gather information on what’s best for THEM.
HERE’S THE PITCH: Guidelines surrounding effective frequency are different by every advertised product. For pharma products, effective frequency is, for example, the frequency at which someone is going to go online to learn more about your product. TV alone is not going to sell your product. You need to invest in digital marketing too.
QUICK READ: The belief that the development of a vaccine for coronavirus is being dangerously rushed, in part to improve Donald Trump’s prospects ahead of the presidential election in November are very real. In addition, Avaaz discovered that”global health misinformation spreading networks” had generated roughly 3.8 billion views for their content on Facebook. The peak of this misinformation occurred in April when an estimated 460 million Facebook views were logged.
QUICK READ: People are spending more time looking for online health information but there is a lot of bad information out there. Pharma must bridge the gap between selling and becoming a resource for online health seekers.
QUICK READ: Pharma seems to be making great progress in the use of digital marketing to reach HCP’s but when it comes to consumers they still rate near the bottom.
QUICK READ: With patients afraid to go to their doctor for wellness visits and more people using the Internet for health information there is a huge opportunity for pharma to win over a skeptical audience.
QUICK READ: The Federal Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) on Wednesday issued the first warning letter specific to paid-search ads since 2014. The FDA said that the search results did not include any fair balance. This is an example of how out of date the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) really is.