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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

America’s profit-riddled healthcare-industrial complex consumes 17% of GDP, equivalent to $3.6trn a year. However, changes are slowly being implemented that could lower healthcare costs. Healthcare is ripe for disruption, but any attempt to disrupt our state of healthcare has been met with pushback and challenges.

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Disruption my ass! Tech companies want healthcare dollars

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Amazon has set its sights on healthcare as it smells another profit opportunity. Google has signed an agreement with the Mayo clinic to help analyze data as they want a slice of healthcare dollars but what’s missing from these tech companies is “the human touch” that patients want.

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What’s Trending In Healthcare Technology

Referral MD

Photo by JoshuaWoroniecki on Pixabay Technology is everywhere these days, and that includes the realm of healthcare. You may have noticed this if you’ve visited the doctor or dentist recently. It’s so much easier to make appointments, view your medical records and even see a healthcare provider using technology.

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Value-Based healthcare won’t work

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Value-based healthcare is a healthcare delivery model in which providers, including hospitals and physicians, are paid based on patient health outcomes. In a country where people really don’t care of themselves value-based healthcare won’t work. It’s estimated that up to half of adults in the U.S. —

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What do future healthcare CEOs look like?

World of DTC Marketing

American healthcare is in trouble. I have to laugh when I hear that a pharma company is patient-centric because that’s become a slogan to make employees feel good about themselves while the costs of prescription drugs increase every year. Highest-paid CEOs in 2019: Who made the list from healthcare. This has to end.

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Psychedelic medicines: are they gaining traction in Europe?

European Pharmaceutical Review

The Schedule 1 classification means that these substances cannot be administered by doctors and, though they may be used for the purposes of research a government licence is often required. 6 Therefore, the quality of data provided to regulators will be key in obtaining MAs and subsequently marketing of psychedelic medicines.

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Online health seekers after the pandemic

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Online health seeker numbers are still very high, indicating that people are doing their research first before asking for a prescription drug. Online ads for prescription drugs are unique. Nobody will see an online ad for a prescription drug and ask their doctor about it without doing some research first.