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Specialty Pharma’s Next Big Opportunity: It’s Time for Patient Access to Adopt an Open Protocol

HIT Consultant

A similar inflection point now faces the specialty pharmaceutical industry. The power of the open-protocol approach has been realized across many industries. In 2008, the startup launched its first API to make and receive phone calls entirely in the cloud. Visa’s attempted $5.3 Look at the example of Twilio.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

Dr. Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. ” Out of the mouths of Mom’s, right?!

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Bill of Health

At the same time, international discussions of a “COVID IP Waiver” were being conducted at the World Trade Organization (discussed here ), and the pharmaceutical industry was calling on governments to reject the weakening of IP rights at the WTO. 2008)) and Germany. From 2020 to 2022, the U.S. see Jacobsen v. Katzer (Fed.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

For more color, read Jane’s April 2008 report, “The Wisdom of Patients,” where she wrote about PLM in its start-up phase (see section on page 20 entitled “ An Ongoing, Live Outcomes Study ”). But if you were not aware of that fact, you may be worried about who, exactly, now has access to the data.