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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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We can apply this approach in pharma by enhancing our patient journey maps and go beyond focusing on the key clinical engagement touch points (e.g., doctor visits, prescription pickups) and enriching our insights with the micro-moments surrounding these obvious events.
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From today, a new feature added to the NHS App used in the UK will allow millions of people to submit and view prescriptions, in a bid to save time for patients and doctors. million people.
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But before the company can make Wegovy mainstream, it has to convince doctors to prescribe it and insurers and governments to pay for it. It has to persuade patients to sign up for some heinous side effects. When patients stop taking Wegovy, their appetite returns within weeks, and they pack on weight. Then there is the price.
A website and TV commercials are not enough to get patients to ask for a prescription medication especially when fair balance lists side effects like cancer. DTC marketers need to understand the patient journey a lot better with specific recommendations to silence the “noise” around their medications.
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.
Consumers would ask their doctor about an advertised prescription drug in a perfect world. Ask current patients what drove them to get an Rx for a branded product (MS drug). Ask current patients what drove them to get an Rx for a branded product (MS drug). In our REAL world, that isn’t the way it happens.
1 Yet, most patients haven’t tried prescription therapies, a discovery Phreesia Life Sciences made after surveying 6,780 adults age 18 and older who previously had been diagnosed with or treated for constipation as they checked in for their doctors’ appointments. Address Patients’ Quality of Life. Why the disconnect?
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By one projection, spending on the drug for Medicare patients could end up being higher than the budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency or NASA. When a new drug is derailed the first thing that pops out is the effect on the company’s stock price, not patients. Can a pharma company serve both shareholders and patients?
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