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Competition is on the horizon for costly narcolepsy treatments

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But increased competition is on the horizon. Both the physician and the patient have to be registered and the drugs can only come from a primary source through limited distribution. Competition starts to heat up. The post Competition is on the horizon for costly narcolepsy treatments appeared first on. About the author.

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How Value Based Health Care Will Impact Medical Sales

Spotio

The goals are to increase quality, decrease costs and turn health care into a competitive marketplace. They cite a 24% increase in drug costs per hospital admission in 2014 and a 12% increase in 2015. Medical devices for home use is determined by physician recommendations and insurance coverage. More changes are inevitable.

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Biogen’s $900 million settlement signals scrutiny on speaker fees

Pharmaceutical Technology

As per the US Department of Justice, Biogen paid remuneration in the form of training and consulting fees and speaker honoraria, to induce physicians to prescribe the company’s drugs, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. More recently, Biogen has been facing competition from dimethyl fumarate generics.

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Virtual Reality Training For Medical Device Sales Reps With David Howe

Evolve Your Success

With VR simulations, sales reps can now hone their skills in lifelike scenarios, giving them a competitive edge in the field. Around 2014 and 2015, Oculus launched a kick-starter campaign and created the first mass-market VR headset. My initial focus was I wanted to be a physician. How new is this space?

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Will A.I. Replace the Medical Sales Workforce and Surgeons? With Edouard Saget

Evolve Your Success

It’s trying to do all the processing of the physician in their brain as how they would want to do it and telling a digital or software robot to do it on their behalf, and it works. Would you say it’s saving physicians time, money, and all the above? I’m assuming you’ve talked to 100 physicians by now.

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Medical Sales In Sterile Processing And Infection Prevention With Mark Copeland

Evolve Your Success

He also talks about partnering with small businesses and how they are leading the competition in this particular space. Some of his notable achievements were selling the first 7D Navigation and One Tray sterilization system and the first provisional script to over 300 physicians. I left them in 2014 to start our own thing.

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Driving Provider Engagement in Value-Based Care

Clarify Health

Some of the key elements the group shared for building trust were: personalizing programs to fit the strengths of the providers, having shared data and insights that everyone trusts, and providing timely and actionable insights about how to improve outcomes that don’t disrupt physician work streams. Keith: Lisa?