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Disruption in healthcare is coming

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America’s profit-riddled healthcare-industrial complex consumes 17% of GDP, equivalent to $3.6trn a year. However, changes are slowly being implemented that could lower healthcare costs. Healthcare is ripe for disruption, but any attempt to disrupt our state of healthcare has been met with pushback and challenges.

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The need for mental healthcare is great

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million in 2020). Every new doctor and therapist a patient visits must be given a copy of those laws that the patient must read and sign. Healthcare in the U.S. The post The need for mental healthcare is great appeared first on World of DTC Marketing.com. Mental illnesses are common in the United States.

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Get ready for HUGE healthcare changes

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There is going to be more coverage for virtual doctors’ visits in new employee health plans along with expanded mental health benefits and access to on-site health clinics. In 2020, the average annual premiums hit nearly $7,500 for single coverage and $21,500 for family coverage. What does this mean for DTC marketers?

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No digitization with HCP’s is not permanent

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IN SUMMARY : When patients return to doctor’s offices will HCP’s have time to go online with every drug company that requests an online detail? However, in both surveys, telehealth visits were perceived as more convenient than office visits (47% in May 2019 vs. 56% in June 2020). As for patients?

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Telehealth will be worth about $25 billion in 2021

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SUMMARY: Deloitte predicts that the percentage of virtual video visits to doctors will rise to 5% globally in 2021, up from an estimated 1% in 2019. billion doctor’s visits, worth a total of approximately US$500 billion. The most time-consuming task is to make an appointment with your doctor just to ask for a new Rx or an Rx renewal.

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What do future healthcare CEOs look like?

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million compensation package in 2020, a slight increase from his $19.6 Pfizer CEO Bourla’s Pay Climbed 17% to $21 Million in 2020 and Gilead Sciences CEO Daniel O’Day earned a $19 million take home. American healthcare is in trouble. Highest-paid CEOs in 2019: Who made the list from healthcare. This has to end.

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Gun violence is a national health issue

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There was nearly a 30 percent increase in homicides between 2019 and 2020, making it the most significant one-year increase in six decades. Healthcare must play a more significant role in preventing gun violence. Still, gun violence is one of America’s deadliest and longest-running epidemics. It is nothing less than an immediate need.

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