FDA Social Media Hearings: Bringing the Voice of Health Activists
On November 12 and 13, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), in collaboration with other federal agencies, is conducting a public hearing to help guide the FDA in making policy decisions on the promotion of human and animal prescription drugs and biologics and medical devices using the Internet and social media tools.
What would you like to say to Health Care Companies who want to join our conversations online? To the FDA, who regulates companies' communications? Help WEGO Health leadership make a great presentation at the hearings!
To help bring YOUR voice to these historic proceedings, WEGO Health conducted a survey of over 160 WEGO Health Activists. We asked you all about the value of companies' participation in social media, about how companies should be regulated, and much more. We'll post highlights from those findings soon!
WEGO Health’s leadership team will present the results of this survey at the FDA hearing in Washington in November, and we’ll share those results with the entire WEGO Health Community.
What would you like to say to Health Care Companies who want to join our conversations online? To the FDA, who regulates companies' communications? Help WEGO Health leadership make a great presentation at the hearings!
To help bring YOUR voice to these historic proceedings, WEGO Health conducted a survey of over 160 WEGO Health Activists. We asked you all about the value of companies' participation in social media, about how companies should be regulated, and much more. We'll post highlights from those findings soon!
WEGO Health’s leadership team will present the results of this survey at the FDA hearing in Washington in November, and we’ll share those results with the entire WEGO Health Community.
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Permalink Reply by Ellen S on -
Thanks so much Jack - I'm really looking forward to seeing the results!
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Permalink Reply by Alicia C. Staley on -
I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of these hearings. I'm curious to see how discussions of "off-label" uses of prescription drugs will be handled. Drugs companies don't normally advertiss "off-label" uses, but I'm finding that there's a dramitic increase in the amount of information that's found online for all uses of drugs. Social media and social networking tools make it very easy to alert people to "off-label" uses - is there any way the FDA can begin to monitor these kind of claims?
I'm also curious to see how FDA defines online promotion of prescription drugs. Good Luck!
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Permalink Reply by Ellen S on
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I hope everybody gets a chance to peruse the WEGO Health blog - FDA Social Media: Health Activists Have Their Say. The presentation looks awesome and I encourage everybody to link back and tweet about it and next week's hearings. Go WEGO Health team!
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Permalink Reply by Gradon Tripp on
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Want to see what Jack, Bob and Jack presented to the FDA? The decks can be found over on the WEGO Health blog. They're packed with some interesting insights from Health Activists about health care companies' use of social media tools.
We're working on getting video of their presentation, too. I'll be sure to let you know once that's available!
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