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A Physician Assistant’s Take on Direct Patient Communication

InCrowd

“What is the single greatest thing you can provide your patients?” I tell both patients and students alike that if a health care provider does not educate their patients about lifestyle modifications; they are doing them a disservice. Answers range from basic to insightful. Compassion and advocacy are two that I now hear often.

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Is digital the future of medicine?

World of DTC Marketing

Some 70% of American hospitals still fax and post patient records, and patients don’t have one record to share among all their doctors. Digital medicine has been thrust into the spotlight because of the pandemic and the media hype is in overdrive. ” Digital medicine also needs better clarification.

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Mental Health Startup Combining Psychiatry with Novel Treatments Launches with $5.4M in Funding

MedCity News

Being Health, a startup that launched last week, offers a care team that includes psychiatrists, psychotherapists, nurse anesthetists, functional medicine physicians, nutritionists, acupuncturists and care advocates. It serves patients both virtually and in person.

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Microsoft’s Healthcare AI Efforts Holds Huge Promise for Patients

MedCity News

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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Should doctors refuse to treat obese patients?

World of DTC Marketing

IN BRIEF: Doctors are not required to treat obese patients who won’t do anything to lose weight but the problem is more than reminding patients they need to get exercise and drop pounds. But what about patients who make no effort to lose weight? Medicare and Medicaid patients specifically cost $61.8

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Side Effects are Limiting GLP-1 Drug Efficacy: How Can Personalization Offer a Solution?

MedCity News

By integrating digitization and machine learning, there is an opportunity to deliver personalized care to all patients and scale precision dosing with minimal physician involvement, maximizing the effectiveness and accessibility of these drugs. appeared first on MedCity News.

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Do patients care about accelerated approval drugs?

World of DTC Marketing

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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