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The financial toxicity of treating cancer

World of DTC Marketing

(Stat News) Today, a study followed 380 patients being treated at community oncology groups across the U.S. transportation), and indirect expenses (e.g., Patients who experience financial hardship during cancer treatment are at higher risk for treatment nonadherence, poor quality of life, and worse survival. population.

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Uber Health, Socially Determined Strike Partnership

MedCity News

Through a new partnership, payers and providers will be able to leverage Socially Determined’s social risk data to identify which patients have barriers to accessing healthcare and what those barriers are.

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Uber Health Launches Grocery, Over-the-counter Delivery Service for Patients

MedCity News

Providers and payers will be able to use Uber Health to deliver healthy groceries and over-the-counter items to patients who need them. They’ll be able to do this on the same platform they use to request non-emergency medical transportation and prescription delivery.

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Access solutions: the missing link that prevents biopharma innovation from reaching patients

pharmaphorum

Science has taken a vertical growth trajectory, yet such innovations are, at best, slow to reach the patients in need. We believe that innovation in patient access models is the necessary catalyst to aid patients in starting on and staying on the therapies they need to improve their lives.

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And so pharma profiteers again

World of DTC Marketing

8 spot ahead of industries such as retail, transportation, and media, and entertainment. The best prospects are drugs targeted at patients who are high-value and who will use the drugs long term. Best of all are patients in the US, where prices are highest, and with chronic conditions requiring repeat prescriptions.

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Readjusting the Life Sciences Industry’s Approach to Improving Adherence

PM360

Addressing the issue of medication adherence begins before a patient even fills their first prescription. According to a recent IQVIA analysis, only one in four patients who were new to a brand in 2021 successfully initiated therapy. “To

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Embedding the Patient Point of View in Everything You Do

PM360

The term “patient centricity” has been around for over a decade, and since its first utterance the buzzword has been praised, dissected, criticized, and everything in between. The concept has always been worthwhile, but people within and outside of the industry have wondered whether the industry was truly becoming more patient centric?