MedCity News

JULY 17, 2024

As poor experiences and high costs drive many to walk away from their doctors, the right additional support can keep patients from switching providers. Here are three suggestions to consider that could make a difference for patient experience while improving access to care and reducing costs.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Voice-recognition AI software has the potential to be the rare smartphone app that encourages face-to-face interactions. Its early results suggest the technology could be a game-changer for a healthcare industry in desperate need of one, boosting morale in the short-term while potentially saving money down the road.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Investing in Friction-reducing tactics such as community building and providing benefits, training, and personalized support to employees will yield compounding long-term benefits while reducing churn rate.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2021

million doctors, nurses, and midwives expected by 2030. Vastaamo required therapists to back up patient notes online but reportedly did not anonymize or encrypt them. Still, the app would have to be clinically tested and demonstrate patient efficacy and better outcomes. The post An app can never replace a doctor.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

By having a presence on these platforms, healthcare professionals demonstrate their commitment to meeting patients where they are, he said. During a conference in Chicago, he encouraged more providers to share their expertise on social media.

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MedCity News

APRIL 18, 2024

Medicare’s Chronic Care Management program reduced emergency room and in-patient hospital visits and lowered total health spending, but uptake has been sluggish for a variety of reasons. The post Medicare’s Push To Improve Chronic Care Attracts Businesses, but Not Many Doctors appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Called Microsoft Fabric, which was rolled out broadly in May, the announcement on October 10 marks the availability of Fabric’s capabilities specifically for the healthcare vertical – to clinicians, administrators but perhaps, most importantly, to patients. Lungs hyperinflated to clear. No pneumothorax or pleural eltusion.

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MedCity News

JUNE 8, 2023

Situations like these can be an annoyance for neurotypical patients. For neurodivergent patients, they’re obstacles to getting adequate care. Eighty-five percent of medical students feel inadequately prepared to provide care for autistic patients. It’s often assumed (even by doctors!) Take autism, for example.

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MedCity News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Despite the challenges that healthcare providers face and declining patient experience scores, several effective strategies can enhance their work to improve the patient experience and sufficiently satisfy expectations for care.

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MedCity News

JUNE 5, 2023

In a confirmatory Phase 3 test of ImmunoGen’s Elahere, the ovarian cancer drug handily beat chemotherapy with results that clinicians say could make the treatment the new standard of care for certain patients. The data were presented during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

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MedCity News

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Although problems in US healthcare abound, the most insidious challenges are often tightly coupled with the industry’s most appealing and instilled virtues — a highly selective and independent workforce, (b) an extremely low tolerance for risk, and (c) a high degree of professional oversight.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For a long time, doctors’ offices, large or small, operated under a seeming contradiction; even […].

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Fierce Pharma

APRIL 23, 2024

As doctors and patients in the U.S. | As doctors and patients in the U.S. grapple with widening shortages of the popular diabetes therapy Mounjaro and its obesity counterpart Zepbound, the maker of the tirzepatide drugs, Eli Lilly, is forging ahead on its quest to expand capacity for its injectable medicines.

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MedCity News

MARCH 13, 2023

The more pressing issue is that there is no mechanism in place to make this information easily digestible, personalized to each patient, and placed in context with competitors’ prices. Price transparency has come a long way over the past couple of years, with insurance companies and hospitals now required to publicly disclose their prices.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Doctors are central to the success of virtually every multi-location healthcare practice and health system we work with. Moreover, today’s doctor partners have strong opinions about marketing and growing their locations within the larger business. Do your doctors look, sound, and feel like they are a part of your organization?

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MedCity News

JUNE 27, 2022

Providers’ digital profiles must be robust in order to best attract and retain patients, according to a new report. Nearly all providers included in the study said that it is important for the hospitals or health systems that employ them to take a more active role in managing their profiles.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The startup seeks to automate many of the interactions that patients have with their doctor’s staff, such as scheduling appointments and answering billing questions. Generative AI-powered voice platform Parakeet Health announced its launch and $3 million in seed funding.

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PM360

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) need help having earlier, more honest, and more effective conversations with their doctors about their illness. That insight and others came from a Phreesia survey that collected responses from 1,994 COPD patients as they checked in for their doctors’ appointments.

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Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Over the past several years, drug shortages have vexed doctors and patients on both sides of the Atlantic, prompting lawmakers and government agencies to take action in both Europe and the U.S. Tuesday, the European Medicines Agency laid out a list of more than 300 critical generic drugs that could fall prey to future shortages.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2020

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. 14.8%) were for patients living in a primary care health professional shortage area. vs 75.4%; P ?<?.001)

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

One in two UK doctors would not use GenAI to treat patients, but there was more willingness to use it for diagnostic purposes, survey finds

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World of DTC Marketing

APRIL 13, 2021

The most desired information doctors now want is about patient assistance programs, with 49% saying they want pharma reps to provide that information. They all said the same thing “our salesforce is not paid to hand out information on just patient assistance programs.” Where to start? Here are some options.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

Do patients care? Do patients care? If you’re a cancer patient and your oncologist is prescribing a drug approved via accelerated Approval, are you going to refuse treatment? Should patients be made aware that the drug they are being prescribed is an “accelerated approval drug”? Of course not.

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MedCity News

JUNE 29, 2023

To fully reap the benefits of telemedicine, it is crucial to provide comprehensive education to both staff and patients.

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MedCity News

MARCH 28, 2023

He thinks this will greatly increase healthcare transparency for a few reasons, including making data more available and influencing more primary care doctors to act as health information fiduciaries on behalf of their patients.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Virtual specialty care networks may provide the sort of longitudinal healthcare relationship we haven’t seen since the era of house calls and doctors’ bags—benefiting patients and physicians alike.

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PharmaVoice

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Healey center is at the front of ALS research and care, earning acclaim from patients, doctors and scientists. Still, the complexities of the disease and of drug development have brought hard-felt losses.

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Fierce Pharma

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As shortages of drugs like amoxicillin, penicillin, Adderall and certain chemotherapies continue to confound doctors and patients in the U.S., two high-ranking Republican lawmakers are pressing the FDA for answers.

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PharmaTimes

MARCH 1, 2024

TMR-CT will help doctors select treatment and predict the spread of lung cancer in patients

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MedCity News

JULY 5, 2023

By automatically counting B-lines in a lung image, the tool helps doctors quickly identify and assess a patient’s lung issues at the point of care. Butterfly Network recently launched an AI tool that can provide medical practitioners with an accurate B-line count from just a six-second lung ultrasound clip.

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World of DTC Marketing

JUNE 27, 2021

Yet the media has led with “diabetes drug leads to major weight loss” Will doctors inform patients? Wegovy’s most common side effects were gastrointestinal problems, including nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which 80% of patients reported, according to USA Today. appeared first on World of DTC Marketing.com.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Having lived in both analog and digital worlds, who better than us Oregon Trail doctors to help ensure digital health technologies best serve our workforce, patients, and communities? Perhaps it will, but the claim that better technology will necessarily improve healthcare is no longer credible.

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 26, 2022

Telehealth has a future, but one could argue that physicians need to see patients firsthand to diagnose and evaluate patients. Patients who sign up on their own are charged an annual fee of $199 for a suite of services, including on-demand video health consultations available at all hours and other benefits.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Today, 35 states have passed mandates for electronic prescriptions for controlled substances with the aim being to reduce the risk of stolen or forged prescriptions and to prevent patients from ‘doctor shopping’ between states.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 6, 2023

We need to create a care model that doesn’t treat menopause as some separate gray area of women’s health where doctors are unequipped and patients are left to their own devices to figure it out.

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Fierce Pharma

DECEMBER 9, 2023

BCMA-targeted therapies are transforming care for multiple myeloma patients. A new study examined side effect reports of BMCA immunotherapies from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, hoping to help inform doctors in their treatment decisions. But these immunotherapies also come with various potentially dangerous side effects. |

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 1, 2024

Armed with two positive phase 3 trial readouts and the hope that at least one will show a significant patient survival benefit, GSK thinks it has the data to convince doctors and the FDA that the o | Armed with two positive phase 3 trial readouts and the hope that at least one will show a significant patient survival benefit, GSK thinks it has the (..)

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