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A number of factors impact health literacy, including a patient’s receipt of appropriate written health communication materials, ability to accurately interpret written health-related information, and communication with providers. It should be done regularly to ensure you’re reaching people with good information.
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Most of the media stories, however, leave out the possible drug sideeffects, which are serious. Will the target audience see this drug as a solution to losing weight and minimizing sideeffects? Whose responsibility is it to remind patients of the drug’s sideeffects?
While the product safety information page is among the top five pages visited what alarmed me was that time on the page was measured in seconds not minutes for most online visitors. Who could blame them when the safety information sounds like a medical journal? Let’s think about this for a minute. What about TV and online ads?
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That information should be shared with HCPs and insurers to understand better the barriers and opportunities of treating patients. A sales representative for a biotech company shared information with oncologists about patients’ attitudes towards treatment options, including the company’s brand.
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The pandemic has affected healthcare dramatically as searches for health information beyond COVID, have skyrocketed and patients have become used to virtual health visits. DTC marketing today drives patients online to seek more information, and too often, the information they are reading is inaccurate.
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Only they can share certain types of information with a growing number of medical stakeholders and back medical insights to guide strategic development and brand decisions. The results would be a measure of the effectiveness of the educational aid used and could suggest the need for refinements in the communication strategy used.
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Still, obviously, there is a need for people who can add value by aligning processes that resemble the need of a public lost in a world of online health information. If, for example, the buzz on social media is about a sideeffect of your drug, you should act quickly with the facts that address online health seeker needs.
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