nDash.com is a content creation platform that provides brands and agencies with access to the world's top freelance writers.
I specialize in content creation and strategy in healthcare, health technology, art, the cannabis industry, and profiles of interesting people.
As a writer, I help audiences understand what my clients do and why it matters with compelling and informative SEO and GEO content.
As a content strategist, I help clients get a handle on their entire content ecosystem with an audit, a competitive analysis, content management, and fine-tuning the content creation process to ensure it’s strategic and efficient.
My clients have included WebMD Ignite, Mass General Brigham, The Boston Globe, Flatiron Health, ZocDoc, Buoy Health, Wolters Kluwer, IUHealth, Sparrow Health, Atlantic Health Systems, Coverys, GEHA, Environmental Film Festival of Accra, Taste of Cambridge, Muse and the Marketplace, Cannasure, Leafly, and many more.
For help with making your content more impactful, email me: christinefgiraud@gmail.com. You can review my work at: www.christinefgiraud.com
Web copy clip about cardiac catheterization, a procedure used to diagnose and treat different types of heart disease.
https://www.phs.org/doctors-services/heart-health/cardiac-catheterization
With ballooning healthcare costs and nearly half of Americans in medical debt, providers, patients, and employers are desperate for new solutions that empower them to save money and better allocate resources while continuously improving the quality of care.
https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/27122/money-matters-how-fintech-improves-patient-outcomes
In today's rapidly evolving landscape of accelerated drug development, reliance on data derived from traditional randomized control trials (RCTs) is shifting toward a combination of RCT data and real-world data (RWD) from sources like electronic health records (EHRs), health insurance claims, social determinants of health (SDoH), and patient surveys.
Mass General Brigham researchers found that women had a lower risk of developing postoperative atrial fibrillation after surgery compared to men, but a higher risk of long-term mortality.
Researchers have found that middle-aged to older adults with inconsistent sleep duration had a heightened risk of developing diabetes compared to those with more consistent sleep patterns.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240717120917.htm
For many struggling small farms in Massachusetts, the 2018 federal farm bill could be a game changer. The long-awaited measure, signed into law last month, removed hemp — the nonpsychoactive variety of cannabis — from the federal government’s list of controlled substances. This article covers the opportunities and uncertainties hemp farmers face.
In recent years, there has been a growing number of patients in their 20s and 30s, dying from alcohol-related cirrhosis. This alarming trend caught the attention of Elliot Tapper and Neehar Parikh, both hepatologists at the University of Michigan, in 2017. Given that alcohol-related liver disease has traditionally been concentrated in people over 65, the two doctors decided to investigate further.
https://thepapergown.zocdoc.com/why-are-more-young-women-getting-cirrhosis/
Using low-power radio, the system can track the movements and physical conditions of patients at home, giving doctors and caregivers a rich source of data to help guide treatment and spot problems early. And pharmaceutical companies are lining up to use the system in their clinical trials.
https://www.overtureglobal.io/story/monitoring-health-at-home-through-movement
Covered health summit on voice technology at Harvard Medical School, August 2018.
Stories of three people who turned away from western medicine and toward cannabis when nothing else worked.
https://digboston.com/medical-cannabis-special-treating-yourself/
The study investigated the utility of surveillance MRI imaging for detecting asymptomatic local recurrences.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jso.23541
This study analyzed how radiation therapy and surgery best treats atypical lipomas as per rate of recurrence and acceptable morbidity.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/sarcoma/2013/485483/
Barton Associates has a network of more than 270,000 locum tenens providers who go on thousands of assignments every year. The outlook for locum tenens career paths is bright, the temporary staffing industry is worth $3.9 billion and only poised to grow further, the perks are well-advertised, and the demand for quality health care will only increase throughout the upcoming years. And yet, medical and nursing schools do not traditionally introduce locum tenens as a future career option to studen
Massachusetts is home to dozens of old textile and paper mills that once thrived, making the state a manufacturing powerhouse. By the 1950s, those industry jobs moved south and the mill buildings deteriorated from decades of neglect. Many have been repurposed as apartments or smaller businesses. Some have been torn down. But one unlikely industry is bringing them back: cannabis.
How chatbots can help screen for COVID-19.
Conversational AI easing the patient journey.
https://blog.orbita.ai/2020-access-to-care-through-the-digital-front-door
Ghostwrite--voice search
https://blog.orbita.ai/what-the-growth-of-google-assistant-means-for-your-seo-strategy
As a strategist for web content I focus on business objectives and users' needs in the healthcare, insurance, and pharma sectors. I have conducted 15 content inventories and website audits, often of large health systems, to advise clients. I have also conducted 6 competitive analyses to help clients differentiate themselves. I advise clients on the editorial production process if they have hiccups and directly manage content creation with best practices when required.
Company: 2021-present
I worked there from 4/2021 until now
I develop targeted copy for B2B and B2C clients. Formats include blogs, thought leadership articles, white papers, web copy, social media, and emails. I have experience writing for a wide range of audiences and adapting to brand voice and in-house guidelines My clients have included Mass General Brigham, WebMD Ignite, The Boston Globe, Flatiron Health, Smart Brief, Wolters Kluwer, Scorr Marketing, Abundant Health Acquisition, BC Platforms, and more.
Company: 2018-present
I worked there from 1/2018 until now
Wrote an article about Voice of Health Summit, at Harvard Medical School.
Company: Speech Technology Magazine
I worked there from 8/2018 until 8/2018
Conducted user interviews, developed personas, created content audit, sitemaps, wire framed.
Company: Smartbug Media
I worked there from 4/2017 until 6/2017
Managing three database repositories and one multi-center national data registry of cancer patients receiving radiation. Responsibilities: chart abstraction, consenting patients, database development and design, running queries, quality control, developing standards of procedure, data maintenance, maintaining regulatory compliance, supervision of interns.
Company: Mass General Hospital
I worked there from 1/2011 until 4/2014
Coordinated two teams to create media collateral for ads about prescription drug abuse. This involved developing a work plan, planning and facilitating meetings, messaging, consensus- building, developing and administering tools for analysis, qualitative data analysis, creating and updating the wiki website, developing and pre-testing ads, working with vendors, creating media materia
Company: Somerville Cares about Prevention
I worked there from 3/2008 until 10/2008
Write news and editorial articles (700-2200 words).
Company: DigBoston.com
I worked there from 1/2018 until /
Wrote article (1200 words) on uptick in millennials dying by cirrhosis since 2009.
Company: https://thepapergown.zocdoc.com
I worked there from 8/2018 until /