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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

This activity sent pharma and biotech companies scrambling to hire DE&I officers and related patient advocacy, engagement, and experience personnel as they came to terms with this foreign notion of actually collaborating with real, live patients. She is currently contracted by Parexel as their first Patient Ambassador.

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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

This is important because in 2017, one in four new drugs approved by the FDA were designed to treat a small population, falling. The team analyzed data-sharing guidelines across 230 policy documents published between 1996 and 2017. into the precision medicine category. Note that autonomy and privacy rank with the most mentions.

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Ada Health : beyond symptom checking to the holy grail of healthcare

Lloyd Price

Like other digital symptom checkers, Ada users are asked a series of questions to “find out what’s going on” (after filling in basic personal, medication and health information). Ada’s app reasons with their answers much like a doctor would, using this information to figure out which other questions to ask to cover off all scenarios.

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