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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

By the power vested in clinical research, the FDA now pronounces us patient and industry. The FDA issued a series of four patient-focused drug development (PFDD) guidance documents which outline how patient co-design needs to successfully happen. I’m here to deliver some great news: we tied the knot!

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

The excitement around new tools took hold of all industries in 2023, and the potential is expansive. The unification of technology, services and pharmacovigilance expertise in the coming year will further enunciate the industry’s focus on patient safety. Dave Latshaw, CEO at BioPhy 1.

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Health Consumers Are Now Amazon-Primed for Healthcare – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 2

Health Populi

In the past couple of months, Amazon announced many health-related plans and developments, including: Accepting medical and health savings accounts (HSAs) to pay for consumer health products like over-the-counter drugs. See more on that recommendation, and subsequent social media frenzy, here on Health Populi ).

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Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

Lloyd Price

Health Tech founder and M&A Advisor Lloyd Price believes virtual care can bring a sweep of benefits, but cautions that it will still need to find a way through barriers around access and affordability for patients, the security of patient data and the licensing of healthcare providers to practice across geographical and care boundaries.

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Self-sovereign identity (SSI) - the future of Health Data?

Lloyd Price

Enhanced research efficiency: Researchers can gain faster access to anonymized patient data with patient consent through SSI, accelerating research efforts and drug development. This empowers them to manage their health information and participate actively in their care decisions.

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New Blockchain ledger will let US residents sell personal Healthcare data

Lloyd Price

Most people don't know it but there is a multi-billion dollar industry that collects healthcare information, strips it of basic personal identifiers such as name, address and Social Security Number, and then sells it off to researchers, drug developers, marketers and others. "It's not fair.

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Blockchain in Healthcare: A Vehicle Towards Digital Health 2.0?

The Digital Health Corner

Herding a patient’s data from many sources into a single record has always been a lofty goal of digital health. According to an excellent whitepaper describing a case study of Medrec , a platform utilizing blockchain technology, health information interoperability is facilitated with the use of blockchain.