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Side Effects are Limiting GLP-1 Drug Efficacy: How Can Personalization Offer a Solution?

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By integrating digitization and machine learning, there is an opportunity to deliver personalized care to all patients and scale precision dosing with minimal physician involvement, maximizing the effectiveness and accessibility of these drugs. The post Side Effects are Limiting GLP-1 Drug Efficacy: How Can Personalization Offer a Solution?

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Digital Therapeutics Sector See Billing Codes as Key to Breaking Free of Reimbursement Rut

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Medicare’s physician fee schedule includes billing codes for digital therapeutics for the first time. Stakeholders say these codes could help turn around reimbursement challenges weighing on the entire digital medicines sector.

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Emerging Investigators Are Pivotal for Meeting Current, Future Drug Development Needs

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We must engage, train and support more physicians as investigators to enable the opportunity for their patients to have access to clinical trials. As an industry, we should be adding anywhere from 10% to 20% new investigators every year to meet the patient access needs for clinical trials.

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Eliminate Lab Test Panel Stuffing To Support Value-Based Care

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billion annually on low-value screening, testing, and procedures considered waste, there needs to be a new approach to how the lab industry develops test menus from which physicians order labs. With the projection that the U.S. may spend up to $27.9

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Access and Diversity in Clinical Trials Requires Supporting the Investigators

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When we bring physicians from underserved communities into research through a reimagined model, we can impact better health outcomes rooted in quality data that allows us to thrive from more diversity and better representation while providing patients with greater access to new care options.

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FDA says pharmacists can prescribe Covid treatment

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The AMA believes physicians should still be the main prescribers, while advocates for provider status for pharmacists say it’s a win for health equity and will expand treatment access.

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MedCity Pivot Podcast: Health Equity in Opioid Addiction Treatment With Dr. Brian Clear

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Brian Clear, an addiction treatment physician and chief medical officer of Bicycle Health, believes that telemedicine is one way to improve access and reduce the inequities inherence in addiction treatment. The other is education.