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Baxter Signs Definitive Agreement to Divest its BioPharma Solutions Business to Advent International and Warburg Pincus for $4.25 Billion

Digital Health Global

(NYSE:BAX), a leading global medtech company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to divest its BioPharma Solutions (“BPS”) business to Advent International (“Advent”), one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, and Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor.

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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Society for Participatory Medicine

Let’s look back even further to 2013 to examine one definition of patient engagement: Health Affairs defines patient engagement as combining patient activation with interventions designed to increase and promote positive patient behavior, such as obtaining preventive care or exercising regularly, hopefully to lower costs.

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Jane Reed, Director of Life Sciences at Linguamatics, an IQVIA company Pharmaceutical developers have always prioritized drug safety. Ian Chan, CEO and Co-founder at Abpro The global supply chain issues and continued difficulties securing funding amid economic uncertainty caused challenges for many life sciences companies this year.

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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical

Health Populi

In this study, the healthcare industry is comprised of five segments: hospitals and clinics; pharma; biotech (separate from pharma); consumer health (e.g., Pharmaceuticals garner the lowest score at 57, compared with biotech and life sciences at 64. over-the-counter medicines); and, health insurance.

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