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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

HIT Consultant

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

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The Social Determinants of Prescription Drugs – A View From CoverMyMeds

Health Populi

These include self-rationing prescription drug fills or refills due to cost, putting off a doctor’s visit, relying more on credit cards than cash, and postponing paying bills, among many other choices between paying for meds or daily living expenses. The reality even before the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020 was that U.S.

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15 Healthcare Marketing Strategies to Attract Today’s Healthcare Consumer

Healthcare Success

Doctors tell patients that an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. Today, virtually every type of healthcare business markets, including health systems, hospitals, multilocation providers, solo practices, pharmaceuticals, medical device manufacturers, health plans, consumer brands, and more. The same holds true for marketing.

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2022 State of the State Addresses Reflect Realities of Health, Economic Recovery

NASHP

In Tennessee, Attorney General Slatery is working to deploy funding from the $26 billion dollar suit against pharmaceutical companies. Parson requested a “$34 million dollar investment in rural communities to increase access to telehealth and telemedicine services.”. Missouri Gov. According to Kansas Gov. Similarly, Gov.

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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals

HIT Consultant

Additionally, digitized health records have been used to make patient information more easily accessible, first to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH mandates, and now, increasingly, to meet the 21st Century Cures Act ‘Final Rule’ mandate, requiring timely and standardized access to all patient data.

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

Health Populi

First, meet the stakeholders: they are patients, physicians (prescribers, which today can go beyond doctors per se to include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and others depending on state licensure), payers, and manufacturers of the drugs. There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S.