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Addressing the Polypharmacy Problem

PM360

If one of those conditions is type 2 diabetes, that person may be taking seven prescription medications, 1 managing two or more additional chronic conditions, 2 and paying $13,000 per year on healthcare. senior adults (aged 65+) 7 taking five or more prescription medications. 3 They are also 2.6 In the U.S., 5 This links to 22% of U.S.

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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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News release: Clarify Health unlocks greater clinical trial diversity with launch of Clarify Trials

Clarify Health

It is a real-world evidence-based software product that empowers life sciences companies to improve the recruitment of diverse and underrepresented patient populations. These data are linked to government and commercial claims, clinical, prescription and dispensing data, covering over 300 million patient lives.

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Nine for 2023, part three: thriving or surviving?

pharmaphorum

Energy crisis effects will be felt across healthcare, but for medicines manufacturing and delivery the issue is especially complex because the networks of medicine supply extend across the globe and across countries which see differing impacts of energy costs and supply. Medicines manufacturing is energy intensive.

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Diversity and inclusion in oncology clinical trials

Clarify Health

By enrolling participants with a wide range of baseline characteristics, study populations will more accurately reflect the patients likely to take the drug if it is approved. Cancer patients treated in clinical trials live substantially longer than those not treated in trials and benefit from lower hospital readmissions. 2] Figure 1.

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

PM360

10 As healthcare communicators, we prioritize patients, as we should. Effective communication not only benefits caregivers, but it also supports patient outcomes and fosters a more comprehensive and compassionate healthcare ecosystem. Supporting caregiver mental health is important to the well-being of both caregivers and patients.

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What Is Cloud-Based Healthcare?

Salesforce

Providers needed a better way to integrate their clinical and non-clinical information to understand their patients’ needs and preferences. Without it, clinicians risk losing patients whose expectations around access and communication have risen dramatically. In other words, patients are forced to manage their own healthcare.