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Report: Primary Care Physicians Are Addressing Mental Health Concerns More Frequently

MedCity News

by 2016 and 2018, representing a 50% increase. The Health Affairs study found that in 2006, 10.7% of primary care visits addressed mental health concerns, compared 15.9%

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Telehealth will be worth about $25 billion in 2021

World of DTC Marketing

Although only 17% of the population, the 65-plus demographic accounts for more than 30% of all doctor’s visits in the United States; in 2016, people age 65 and up made 80% more office visits than the average number of visits among the general US population. Will physicians jump on the telehealth bandwagon?

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Can Salespeople Save Physicians from Selling-Out to Hospital Systems?

ProSellus

More and more physicians today are selling-out to hospitals and becoming employees. In fact, in a 2017 report for the nonprofit Physician Advocacy Institute, revealed that 5,000 physician practices and over 14,000 physicians have been ‘scooped up’ by hospitals between July 2015 and July 2016 alone.

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Unexpected Factors when Selling to Physicians

Scott’s Directories

Some factors have hindered the ease of accessibility to physicians to make direct sales. And a large majority of physicians are not in the position to accept products and services as there is a decreasing amount of independent practices. In an article by Carol K Kane, she notes that “2016 was the first year when less than half (47.1

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Are new weight loss drugs an answer or problem?

World of DTC Marketing

Worldwide obesity rates have tripled since 1975, with 650 million adults obese in 2016, according to the World Health Organization. Lamanna anticipates it could take two to three years to change the minds of primary care physicians. In 2019, the OECD declared that developed countries’ plans to tackle the problem largely failed.

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The Bus, The Car and The Bike: Explaining Intersectionality

InCrowd

I often use myself as an example; I am a Latina, immigrant, young physician, all identities for which I need to pay a price and fight the biases associated with each. In addition, as a physician under 40 years old, I often encounter scenarios in which I am told, “you are too young to know,” we will call this the age tax.

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Health consumers: A long way off

World of DTC Marketing

In 2016, consumers told Aflac that enrolling in health insurance should feel like an experience on Amazon. There’s evidence that patients will embrace transparency in the form of accessing their physicians’ notes about them, based on the OpenNotes project which showed higher engagement in patients that had access to HCP’s notes.