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

Health Populi

I analyzed those general results with health/care implications here in 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., over-the-counter medicines); and, health insurance.

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR) will become more common in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). This year we saw the maturation of Claims and Health Information Exchanges, which enable a cost-effective and straightforward process for researchers to gain access to identified patients’ data.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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Emerging trends in the European HealthTech M&A market 2023

Lloyd Price

This growth is expected to create opportunities for M&A activity, as pharmaceutical companies look to acquire smaller, innovative biotech companies. Drug discovery and development: This includes companies that use digital health technologies to develop new drugs and treatments.

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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

Autonomy refers to data subjects’ (patients’) informed consent as a precondition of collecting personal health information agreeing to further uses. Note that autonomy and privacy rank with the most mentions. They are certainly inter-related.

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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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