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Our abysmal health care system

World of DTC Marketing

First, the health insurance companies are making a lot of money while burying doctors in paperwork and limiting treatment options. The insurance companies get to dictate medical care and go out of their way to deny medications, surgery, or treatments with no repercussions. Prior authorization is out of control. The result:?

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Amazon’s big gamble

World of DTC Marketing

I can easily schedule a telehealth appointment with my doctor without paying $199 a year. Many patients are frustrated with securing timely appointments and ensuring that the results from those consultations are shared among the patient’s healthcare providers’ network. So let’s diagnose Amazon’s purchase.

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Telehealth concerns rise

World of DTC Marketing

First, people aren’t always completely honest with their doctors. A recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open found that 60 to 80 percent of patients have been less than fully forthright with their doctors at some point which can be worse with telehealth. What can pharma do?

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Healthcare is about profits, not patients

World of DTC Marketing

They said “medical claims and revenues noticeably declined among hospitals during the height of the pandemic, which has benefited health insurers. But that didn’t prevent hospitals from making a lot of money, a large chunk of which was directly subsidized by taxpayers in the form of bailout funds.

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Clarify Health and Ideon Partner to Build Stronger, More Competitive Health Plan Networks

Clarify Health

Clarify Health is leveraging Ideon, the industry’s most accurate and comprehensive provider-network data solution, to improve health plan management, lower costs and promote high-quality healthcare. Health plans can use this intelligence to expedite their decision-making processes for network modeling and optimization.

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Colombian healthcare reform aims to upend insurance and shift focus to primary care

Pharmaceutical Technology

It includes a radical overhaul of the public healthcare insurance sector, doing away with the role of the Health Promoting Entities (Entidades Promotoras de Salud, EPS) as intermediaries. Often, the only way people can access the health network is by going to a hospital emergency room, typically once they are already sick.

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Direct to Patient Healthcare

Healthcare Success

HELPCare, LLC delivers affordable, direct primary care by eliminating insurance payments, offering ample appointment time, and focusing on personalized, preventive care. When we launched Mayo Clinic’s social media network and podcast, I used what I like to call the ‘proceed until apprehended’ model of innovation. Lee Aase: Yeah.