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When it comes to telehealth it’s not numbers

World of DTC Marketing

Still, they are more likely to continue use because of complex medical conditions or a nonclinical factor such as lack of transportation” OK, so where to start…First, let’s ask a fundamental question “why are people using telehealth? 83% believed the quality of the patient-physician communication was good.

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Steps to building a more patient-centric industry

pharmaphorum

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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Support bot for cancer patient relatives wins WHO Health Hackathon

pharmaphorum

The Health Hackathon – which took place in the western city of Lviv in war-torn Ukraine – saw more than 40 teams showcase digital solutions to the challenges faced by patients and doctors, competing for recognition and promise of financial backing to take their projects to the next level. Main image source: WHO.

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Putting Patients First: Improving the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Impetus Digital

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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The power of patterns: patient journeys, data analytics and the quest for a better healthcare system

Clarify Health

Leveraging Data to Improve Patient Journeys Healthcare Unbound episode recap: There’s never been more healthcare data (or access to it). Data on various aspects of patients’ journeys through the healthcare system are particularly powerful for both providers and payers. “But they have evolved over time.”

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Embedding the Patient Point of View in Everything You Do

PM360

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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Delivery systems for biologics

European Pharmaceutical Review

Therefore, biologics identification and characterisation poses unparalleled challenges, as does their manufacturing processes and routes of administration while maintaining patient safety and clinical efficacy. Notably, LNPs facilitate the transportation of large payloads, have limited immunogenicity, and allow for scalable manufacturing.