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How Digital Patient Intake is Revolutionizing Healthcare

Referral MD

Digital patient intake (forms) are electronic versions of the traditional paper forms patients fill out when visiting a healthcare provider. Once prescribed the medication, you can include questions about weight loss and side effects to assess progress and make necessary adjustments. What is Digital Patient Intake?

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Fingertip Sensor Measures Lithium Levels in Sweat

Medgadget

Used as a treatment for bipolar disorder and depression, lithium requires very accurate and sensitive dosing, with too little providing no therapeutic benefit but slightly too much potentially leading to unwanted side-effects. Another issue with the drug is the potential for poor patient compliance.

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Implant Coating Fights Infection and Monitors Strain

Medgadget

Unlike current approaches that use antibiotics that are gradually released by the implant, the mechanical approach will not become depleted over time or cause side-effects in nearby tissues. It also avoids the manifestation of antimicrobial drug resistance and can also easily kill drug-resistant bacteria.

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Soft Bioresorbable Implant Controls Pain by Cooling Nerves

Medgadget

A team of engineers at Northwestern University led by John Rogers, the person responsible for many advances in flexible electronics, created a drug-free implant that can control pain by cooling nerves. As a drug-free technology, the implant could help to avoid the addiction and side-effects that opioids frequently cause.

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AI-Designed Custom Knee Implants

Medgadget

The goal is that medical interventions are highly tuned to the patient they are directed at, in the hope that tailoring therapeutic interventions will lead to better patient outcomes and reduced instances of side-effects. They then used an electron beam powder bed fusion to manufacture their designs.

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The Future of Biosimilars Marketing

PM360

A patient-first approach enables biosimilar brands to define their ideal audience and timing based on real-world care milestones, such as knowing a patient is experiencing side effects with the biologic reference product or knowing a patient has changed to an insurance where the biosimilar product is preferred and more affordable for the patient.

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Bridging the healthcare digital divide: a gradual approach to adopting ePI

European Pharmaceutical Review

They detail the medication’s intended use, proper administration, potential side effects and precautions. They are vital to ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines, making them an integral part of healthcare in Europe. Key principles for the use of electronic product information for EU medicines” Breinstrup T.