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A Prescription for Social Needs: Why Human Connection is Medicine

MedCity News

Weaving companionship into health care as we would a blockbuster drug can help us circumvent expensive healthcare services like emergency department visits and hospitalizations.

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New Partnership Brings ‘Food Is Medicine’ Programs to Veterans

MedCity News

The Rockefeller Foundation is funding two produce prescription pilot programs at VA healthcare systems in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas.

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In Europe, shortages of Novo Nordisk's Ozempic to persist into Q4: letter

Fierce Pharma

The company and the European Medicines Agency warned European healthcare providers to continue limiting new patient prescriptions until the shortages let up.

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Value-based healthcare can help reduce costs

World of DTC Marketing

Why haven’t more employers addressed the rising costs of employee healthcare with value-based care? This has to be upsetting to employers experiencing riding employee healthcare costs. The answer may be in offering a value-based healthcare model. Prescription drugs costs are just a small part of healthcare costs (11%).

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

America’s profit-riddled healthcare-industrial complex consumes 17% of GDP, equivalent to $3.6trn a year. However, changes are slowly being implemented that could lower healthcare costs. Healthcare is ripe for disruption, but any attempt to disrupt our state of healthcare has been met with pushback and challenges.

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Disruption my ass! Tech companies want healthcare dollars

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Amazon has set its sights on healthcare as it smells another profit opportunity. Google has signed an agreement with the Mayo clinic to help analyze data as they want a slice of healthcare dollars but what’s missing from these tech companies is “the human touch” that patients want.

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The Cost of Medication Non-Adherence — How Hospitals Can Close the Gap through Better Communication

MedCity News

You can provide the best care possible inside the four walls of your hospital, but if your patients cant afford their prescriptions after you discharge them, the system isnt working. The post The Cost of Medication Non-Adherence How Hospitals Can Close the Gap through Better Communication appeared first on MedCity News.

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