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The big question: are you faking your innovation?
|23rd August 2018
Director and Head of Customer Experience Elisa del Galdo reveals the meaning of innovation and why creating a cutting-edge solution is much easier than you think.
Medopad: the up and coming unicorn transforming remote patient monitoring
|14th August 2018
Blue Latitude Health speaks to Medopad’s Martha Carruthers to learn how the start-up’s modular apps are helping patients with complex diseases.
What makes a mental health professional recommend a CBT app?
|6th August 2018
Senior Associate UX Consultant Amit Sheinholtz was recently awarded City University’s prestigious prize for Outstanding Project of the Year. BLH caught up with him to get the inside scoop on his master’s thesis on mental health apps and what it takes to create excellent research
Bringing the NHS into the 21st century
|27th July 2018
As the NHS celebrates its 70th birthday and a £20bn “birthday gift” from the UK government, we find out how one company is delivering what the National Health Service really needs – a financially sustainable method of healthcare management. Dr Kruti Patel Clinical Operations Manager at virtual healthcare provider Medefer tells us more.
The Challenges Of UX In Healthcare: Technology To Change Lives
|20th June 2018
BLH Director and Head of Customer Experience Elisa Del Galdo explores the latest digital healthcare trends and reveals the innovations changing the sector today.
Personas: a top tool for personalising pharma marketing campaigns
|8th May 2018
Healthcare customers are calling for greater personalisation in care from providers. Here, we explain why personas are the top tool for ensuring your brand meets this need efficiently and effectively.
Does your medical information service work for your users?
|27th April 2018
Customer Experience Consultant Nilu Davies reveals her advice for ensuring your medical information service is user-friendly.
Customer journeys: a tool for behaviour change
|13th April 2018
In this Q&A, BLH speaks to Director and Head of Customer Experience Elisa del Galdo to learn how she uses customer journeys to drive innovation and facilitate behaviour change.
Perspective on the power of insight
|4th April 2018
Good insight gives you the tools to create innovative products and services that meet customer’s needs at the point of need. In this issue of Perspective magazine, our in-house insight experts unite to reveal the best practical tools, tips and knowledge for harnessing insight to empower your customers and inspire innovation.
How to build an online medical information service that resonates with your customers
|28th July 2017
Sourcing medical information is a top challenge for healthcare professionals in 2017. Here, Associate Consultant Jiayi Chen gives you the inside scoop on how to build a digital service that really serves the needs of your customers.
The changing role of the expert in healthcare: challenges in customer-centricity
|8th February 2017
When we talk about customers as experts in healthcare, what we’re really talking about are clinicians. Experts in diagnosis, treatment and clinical care (HCPs) and experts as those who experience the medical condition in their own personal context (patients). Head of Customer Experience Elisa del Galdo talks through how the evolution of the relationship between HCPs and patients is changing the role of the expert in healthcare.
Patient-centred care innovation in dementia: a conversation with Neil Maiden
|18th January 2017
Content Marketing Manager Liz Inskip interviews Neil Maiden of City, University of London, about his work developing mobile technology solutions for residential dementia care, and what the challenges facing innovators in this therapy area are.
Why isn’t your segmentation working?
|8th June 2016
Senior Associate Consultant Frances Hendry and Senior Customer Experience Consultant Peter Timmer take a closer look at why audience segmentations usually fail, and how you can make your segmentation actionable so that it can deliver real commercial value.
The role of empathy in the design of products and services
|31st May 2016
In this article, Customer Experience Consultant Peter Timmer talks through what it means to design with empathy for the customer, and why it produces better products and services for pharma and healthcare.
Experience design of physical spaces: a human-centred approach
|25th May 2016
Good user experience (UX) design considers how people feel about products and services and caters for their needs – and space design works exactly the same way. In this article, Consultant Anna Tamasi highlights the key considerations and best practices for spatial design from a user experience design perspective.
The difference between market intelligence and design intelligence
|12th May 2016
In this article, Head of Customer Experience Elisa del Galdo talks us through how market and customer research differ, and in which situations you would use one over the other.
Delivering a better eDetail: Strategy-led user-centred methodology in practice
|6th May 2016
It's not easy to design solutions that meet the needs of a wide range of business and customer stakeholders in healthcare and pharma. Adopting a user-centred methodology, however, can help us to define the problem, design the solution, and deliver engaging assets. Stuart Goodman and Anna Tamasi use an eDetail example to show us how.
The ROI of user experience in pharma and healthcare: How to engage your customers
|7th March 2016
Within the pharma and healthcare industry, the introduction of a user-centred approach that incorporates best practice user experience research and design is still rare. Often the world of user experience (UX), its activities, methods, and deliverables are not well understood within this industry.
In this article, Head of Customer Experience Elisa del Galdo breaks down how to understand the return on investment of user experience methodology.
Why does content need a strategy?
|7th March 2016
Not all organisations are in a position to look at maturity – for some, there’s still a pressing question that needs answering: Why does content need a strategy?
In this article, Content Marketing Manager Liz Inskip and guest blogger Adwoa Baah explain how having a documented strategy for content creation, distribution, management, and governance will empower your brand teams and create organisational efficiencies.
Beyond the patient journey: Designing for behaviour change
|26th February 2016
In healthcare, customer journey maps can be very complex due to the fact that healthcare systems are often convoluted and extensive. This creates a web of interconnected touchpoints and interdependent stakeholders that is too cluttered and difficult to use.
In 2016, it’s time to update our model for the customer journey. Customer Experience Consultant Anna Tamasi talks us through the future of journey mapping.
Why are doctors frustrated with the digitalisation of healthcare?
|15th February 2016
Healthcare is not a consumer-driven market where we can assume that patient-centred innovations will automatically influence adoption within doctor communities. In this article, Customer Experience Consultant Anna Tamasi highlights the most common usability and user experience implications that the digitalisation of healthcare poses on doctors' professional lives.
Patient-centricity: Navigating away from the centre
|15th September 2015
Traditionally, we look at the environment of the patient with the patient in the centre of a circle of healthcare professionals, carers, institutions or clinics, and sometimes services. Elisa del Galdo takes us through a better way to look at patient-centricity: with the patient’s journey at the centre.
Back to Basics: Designing digital patient services
|2nd July 2015
Head of Customer Experience Elisa del Galdo talks through the key considerations for pharma companies when designing and delivering digital patient services from a customer experience perspective.
How do you solve a problem like non-adherence? (Part II)
|28th May 2015
Following her previous piece on patient medical non-adherence, Head of Customer Experience Elisa del Galdo takes a look at the different patient personas that emerge during the diagnosis and treatment pathway. Download her sketchnote of the three personas and read about how to design services for unengaged patients.
How do you solve a problem like non-adherence?
|18th May 2015
Recent research from the World Health Organisation and the Mayo Clinic on the impact of (and influences on) a patient’s ability to adhere to their treatment regime has shown that an astounding amount of patients do not follow or complete their treatment as prescribed. Head of Customer Experience Elisa del Galdo looks at the factors around patient non-adherence and how pharma can help to solve the problem.
Going for Gold: How evidence-based research helps you achieve excellent customer experience
|28th April 2015
Martine Leroy and Elisa del Galdo break down what customer experience research is, and why it’s important for pharma companies to employ it in the development of customer-centric products and services.
Evolution of the wearable tech revolution
|30th March 2015
One of the predictions we made in early 2015 was around wearables: “Wearable tech will play an even more integral role in the collection of aggregated patient data to help identify disease trends, predict treatment outcomes and improve future diagnoses. What we anticipate seeing more of in 2015 is a closer integration between the wearable device and how it feeds information to various sources.”
Account Executive Stuart Goodman takes a look at this prediction and provides an analysis of where wearables are heading.
Top 7 key takeaways from Festival of Marketing 2014
|25th November 2014
Two weeks ago we were at the 2014 Festival of Marketing in London's Tobacco Dock. We enjoyed two days of talks focusing on marketing strategies, customer experience, multichannel marketing, brand marketing, creative techniques, data and analytics, social media, storytelling and content, insight, personalisation, and B2B marketing.
How to be an MCM Maverick
|8th September 2014
Although most companies have espoused the Multichannel Marketing concept, the pharma industry still presents considerable scope for developing and optimising the promotional mix. Deidre Coleman from EyeForPharma sat down with Managing Consultant James Atherton to discuss.
UX: the importance of inclusive design
|10th July 2014
Businesses should be investing both time and resource into ensuring that their digital assets comply with web accessibility standards. Inclusive design has to consider the UX story for users of all abilities, across all platforms. Read on for more on accessibility and inclusive design.
How to create a holistic view of your customers' experience
|1st July 2014
After years of “product-centricity”, pharmaceutical companies have realised it is time to shift focus to customer experience; providing customers with what they want, how they want it, and when they want it. Read more for an overview of the customer-centric approach.
Review of UX Camp London 2014
|2nd April 2014
Blue Latitude Health attended UX Camp London 2014 in East London; this is a discussion of the key points and ideas that came out of that event.
Make things simple for your customer – it’s not hard
|21st October 2013
An overview of the simple rules that the Government Digital Service used to develop the new gov.uk website - a user-centred approach to creating a joined-up digital service to serve a diverse population. (From their Festival of Marketing 2013 talk.)