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Steps to building a more patient-centric industry

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Creating a broader, more inclusive patient experience starts with building a network of advocates who can help organisers meet patients where they are located and educate them about the availability and value of the trials. One significant roadblock to clinical trial inclusion of minority groups has been location and transportation.

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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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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.

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Smart Hospitals: How Technology is Driving Change

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Telemedicine allows patients to consult doctors remotely for things like hair loss , while robotics aids in surgeries and routine tasks. It consists of an expansive network of devices designed to collect, analyze, and transmit crucial health data in real time, thus redefining traditional healthcare approaches.

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Addressing the Polypharmacy Problem

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11 Forgetfulness, cost, and convenience factors such as distance or transportation to pharmacy are the main drivers of this nonadherence. different doctors during their lives. Depending on the demographic, the pharmacy network may also need adequate access to commercial, cash-paying, Medicare, or Medicaid patients.

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Putting Patients First: Improving the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

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This could mean anything from developing policies that promote fairness and transparency in pricing to creating networks of distribution points that ensure medications can be delivered promptly wherever needed.

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The Vital Role of Caregiver Communications: A Caregiver’s Perspective

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Build Influential Support Networks Be open to new thinking: Consider engaging people who are skilled at innovating within the highly regulated healthcare space. Not to mention needing to learn how to administer more skilled care (such as IV infusions).