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Steps to building a more patient-centric industry

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Lack of access, strict regulations, and demanding schedules have made it extremely difficult for patients to participate in clinical trials. A 2018 NIH survey found that patients felt clinical trial participation to be inconvenient and burdensome, and nearly half (49.0%) said it disrupted their daily routine.

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Putting Patients First: Improving the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

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Medications and supplies must be handled with the utmost care, often needing to comply with strict temperature regulations and changing demands from patients and providers that vary depending on the country. Add this to infrastructure challenges like cold storage or delays, and it’s no wonder patient needs are not always put first.

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Embedding the Patient Point of View in Everything You Do

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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?

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SXSW 2023: Moving from NFTs to LSD

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Enosis Therapeutics, makers of AnchoringVR, uses virtual reality to transport the user out of a typical, clinical treatment environment into an alternate reality by replacing familiar settings with wondrous objects and symbols. This, in turn, helps to facilitate deep immersion into the psychedelic experience.

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Smart Hospitals: How Technology is Driving Change

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Smart hospitals are elevating patient care and revolutionizing hospital operations like never before. Each one contributes distinctively towards streamlining and making the healthcare system more patient-centric. For instance, IoT devices enable real-time patient monitoring and personalized care.

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Addressing the Polypharmacy Problem

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Each prescription medication a patient takes is a responsibility, and when an individual is taking five or more medications, those responsibilities become a complicated puzzle of elements to manage, such as proper dosage, compliance and adherence, potential drug interactions, and the correct time and method for use. 3 They are also 2.6

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Nine for 2023, part three: thriving or surviving?

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This in itself is not problematic: studies of impact and perception of virtual versus face-to-face engagement show doctors use them for different purposes (for example, information-focused versus relationship-focused interactions), but both have value and impact. Medicines manufacturing is energy intensive.