| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| May 13, 2014 | The trouble with taglines | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
Time for a quick little game: match the tagline to the company (answers below):
positive results for life™
Innovating for life.
Advancing the Delivery of Health Care®... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | It’s never too late to innovate | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
There is a lot of talk these days about the Millennials, those 20- and even 30-somethings previously labeled Gen Y. Millennials want meaningful work, we are told. Mil... |
| Oct 18, 2013 | What if? Thoughts on the brave new world of medtech marketing | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
I’m just back from a morning conference called "The Doctorectomy: Charting Commercial Success with the Rise of the C-Suite Decision-Maker." Kudos and thank-... |
| Oct 8, 2013 | It’s the economy, doctor | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
In my last blog, I suggested that medtech companies consider how data – including its collection, analysis and sharing with customers – could build greater value into... |
| Oct 2, 2013 | My data’s OK, your data’s OK | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
Last week at AdvaMed in D.C., an overriding theme was data – big data, who owns the data, how do we collect data, what data do we collect to inform our economic story... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | The one thing you must do to build your device brand | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
We medical device marketers often ask ourselves, "If we could only do one thing to improve our presence/generate leads/build sales/increase customer loyalty, and... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | The 1 thing you must do to build your device brand | We medical device marketers often ask ourselves, "If we could only do one thing to improve our presence/generate leads/build sales/increase customer loyalty, and so on … what would it be?"
There are many answers to that question a... |
| Jul 19, 2013 | En passant (in passing) | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
These past few days we at KHJ have been in conversation with a company in France, and the communications have all been in French. Fortunately, our executive VP, Sylvi... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | It’s hip to be social | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
It was a recent Saturday afternoon and we were at the Elks Lodge for my twin niece and nephew’s graduation party. It was also my first public outing since having a to... |
| Jan 7, 2013 | The year of the human? | I’ve been interviewing hospital lab folks over the past several weeks, inviting their appraisals of today’s arterial blood-gas analyzers – machines used in ORs, ERs, CVORs and critical care units. These analyzers have become smarter and sma... |
| Nov 16, 2012 | The vision thing | Celia and I belong to our church choir. She sings soprano, and I sing bass. Although we are at opposite ends of the scale, so to speak, we have medical technology in common, for Celia is an optometrist. The other day before a choir rehearsa... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | Hey, St. Jude | By Nadine Choufani
Recently I attended a Lebanese cultural day event at Boston’s City Hall Plaza. Being Lebanese, I was psyched to be there, especially since I had been feeling rather homesick for a few days and figured that Lebanese music ... |
| Sep 26, 2012 | French spoken here : Why you should attend AdvaMed 2012 | We had all been reading, the French couple and I, on the three-hour flight back to Boston from Fort Lauderdale. She sat in the window seat with a newspaper, he read from a Kindle, and I fidgeted in the aisle seat, slogging through a slim bu... |
| Aug 9, 2012 | The mysterious case of the baby potheads | Back in my hospital days, our entire communications staff would meet monthly for a session we called “issues management.” We would imagine every crisis scenario that could possibly occur – from a kidnapped patient to a hazmat spill – and pr... |
| Aug 9, 2012 | The mysterious case of the baby potheads | Back in my hospital days, our entire communications staff would meet monthly for a session we called "issues management." We would imagine every crisis scenario that could possibly occur – from a kidnapped patient to a hazmat spil... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Of kings, cognac and context: Is device marketing on the rocks? | Louis XIII of France was kind of an odd monarch to name a cognac after. The boy king was crowned at the underage age of eight in 1610. Later he became known as “the chaste king,” because he stayed married to the same woman and was never kno... |
| May 30, 2012 | FTC, FDA and CYA | By Jackie Gonzalez, Senior Vice President, Consulting Services, KHJ Brand Activation
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that consumers who bought Skechers Toners are eligible for refunds. You’ve seen Toners or maybe their... |
| May 21, 2012 | The other side of the eye chart | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
I’m seeing much more clearly since I visited my eye doctor.
Oh, I haven’t gotten my new vision prescription filled yet. Thanks to my near-blindness, new spectacles kn... |
| Apr 24, 2012 | Got game? | By Tod Brubaker, Creative Director, KHJ Brand Activation
A few days ago, I was having lunch with colleagues at a restaurant near our Seaport offices. We had great Mexican food and a fabulous view of the water.
But what really got my attenti... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | The Med-Tech Mid-Summer Classic: MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East | MassDevice.com is proud to announce an exceptional lineup of medical device leaders for the MassDevice Big 100 Regional Roundtable East on July 10, 2012, in Waltham, Mass.
The Big 100 Roundtable is a conversation among leaders – an unforget... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | What would Dickens do? | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
Charles Dickens was a rock star in his day. When he visited America in 1842 at the age of 30, the famed author of such classics as Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby ... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Medical device tax: What the med-tech industry could learn from Don Draper | I love Mad Men and it’s not because of the clothes, the cocktails, the writing, characters, or the enchanting Joan Holloway (although let’s be honest, she helps).
No, I love Mad Men because of Don Draper, the cantankerously flawed genius an... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | Exhibit hall or exhibit hell? Think outside the booth | By Jackie Gonzalez, Senior Vice President, Consulting Services, KHJ Brand Activation
At the recent HIMSS conference in Las Vegas, I witnessed the best and worst of the trade show experience.
The worst experience was a CIO who vowed not to c... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Dr. App is in | By Tod Brubaker, Creative Director, KHJ Brand Activation
How to make sure your medical app has a long, healthy life
A while ago, I met a doctor pal of mine for a drink. After catching up on the usual things, I asked about a suspicious mole ... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | A cure for cancer and a new toothbrush: What medical device executives really want in 2012 | By Rob Kinslow, Sr. Strategist, Brand Communication, KHJ Brand Activation
Be careful what you wish for.
Last month, just before Hanukkah and Christmas, 180 of our medical device brethren gathered in Irvine, Calif. for the MassDevice Big 100... |