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Value-Based healthcare won’t work

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Value-based healthcare is a healthcare delivery model in which providers, including hospitals and physicians, are paid based on patient health outcomes. In a country where people really don’t care of themselves value-based healthcare won’t work. IPoor health is also associated with an increase in cancers.

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The clock is ticking on healthcare’s excessive profiteering

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: There is so much money in healthcare that every company wants their share even if patients get hurt. health plan for seniors in Florida improperly collected nearly $200 million in 2015 by overstating how sick some patients were, according to a new federal audit, which seeks to claw back the money. A Humana Inc.

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The financial toxicity of treating cancer

World of DTC Marketing

billion in 2015 and $208.9 These cost estimates include cancer-attributable costs for medical services and oral prescription drugs. National costs for cancer care were estimated to be $190.2 billion in 2020 (2020 U.S. dollars), an increase of 10 percent that is only due to the aging and growth of the U.S. population.

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How to Choose a Good Healthcare CRM

Referral MD

The need to attract new patients through digital means is forcing healthcare into a new era of on-demand patient consumerism. The development of new platforms and technologies drive healthcare organizations to adapt in an effort to give consumers of our services exactly what they want. Improve the work life of healthcare providers.

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After loss of exclusivity, small-molecule generics bite quick and hard, while biologics remain resilient

Clarivate

biosimilars have only been on the market since 2015 and have seen a rockier path to adoption, facing barriers to market entry like pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which have been accused of throttling access in exchange for rebates from the manufacturers of blockbuster biologics. In the U.S., Clarivate’s ex-U.S.

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Why we need to support healthcare’s vital acceleration

pharmaphorum

With the population ageing, the need for healthcare is growing fast: between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years old will nearly double from 12% to 22%, according to the World Health Organization. Secondly, pressure on healthcare spending is leading to greater consolidation.

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Mental health apps and services may be doing more harm than good

World of DTC Marketing

Cerebral will stop writing prescriptions for Adderall, Ritalin, and other controlled substances to new ADHD patients as concerns grow about telehealth companies’ prescribing practices. Some of the advice offered by these apps and services can be downright harmful.

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