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HCP’s use of social media: the good and the not so good

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: A survey of more than 4,000 physicians showed that virtually every physician uses social media for personal reasons, while two-thirds use it for professional reasons. According to Sermo, two-thirds of physicians spend at least an hour on social media, with an average daily use of two hours and twenty-two minutes.

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U.S. market access landscape: A push for control is erasing the boundary between payers and providers in U.S. healthcare

Clarivate

CVS then began affiliating with health systems across the country (like Cleveland Clinic ) for physician oversight of MinuteClinic’s staffed midlevel providers, just as Walgreens was rising as a formidable competitor in the convenient care space through its own walk-in clinics that it launched in fall 2006.

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How retailers and “payviders” are disrupting U.S. healthcare in 2024

Clarivate

But, even without Amedisys, the insurer still has home healthcare company LHC Group, acquired in early 2023, and will leverage a long-term partnership with Walmart plus the nation’s largest network of employed and affiliated physicians through Optum to manage patient health and drive down costs for vulnerable patients.

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5 Core Tenets of HCP-focused Point-of-Care Marketing

PM360

The EHR is the Holy Grail of POC Messaging (At Least for Now) Reaching HCPs while they’re prescribing is the epitome of physician messaging. The Point of Care Marketing Association (POCMA) is the Go-to Source for POC Education/Advocacy Founded in 2013, POCMA supports the POC channel through education and advocacy.

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Abyrx Receives Additional FDA Clearances for MONTAGE® Settable, Resorbable Bone Putty as Bone Void Filler and Cranial Bone Cement

Legacy MEDSearch

These new FDA clearances follow the highly successful clinical introduction of MONTAGE use on bleeding bone, which has garnered excellent physician feedback and surpassed 22,000 product uses with thousands of patients now multiple years removed from surgery.

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The price is right (or is it?): decoding price transparency data

Clarify Health

One driver of rising healthcare costs is pricing, particularly the pricing of hospital services, which have been notoriously difficult to see in advance of treatment, and even more difficult to compare across providers and networks.

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Neglected tropical diseases: non-profits lead the way as private sectors lags

Pharmaceutical Technology

A key challenge in the development of treatments for such indications is the fact that these indications are neglected and often affect populations in lower-income countries, says Dr David Mabey an infectious disease physician at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. For example, Merck & Co. For example, Merck & Co.

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