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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Jane Sarashon

The pharmaceutical industry and health insurance companies garnered 3 in 10 people rating them as excellent/good, with nursing homes at the bottom a 2.5/10 ” For pharma/drug companies and health insurers, 3 in 10 consumers also ranked these medical segments as “poor” providers in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

At the end of this day, something Muna Bhanji, an advisor to biopharmaceutical developers who spent over 30 years of her career with Merck, noted: no advances toward value-based care will happen without a sense of partnership, requiring aligned incentives across the health/care ecosystem.

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Is Zero Trust the Remedy to Healthcare’s Ransomware Epidemic?

HIT Consultant

Whether it’s hospitals, health insurance companies, vaccine trials, the pharmaceutical industry, and so on – seemingly no aspect hasn’t been targeted. . The pandemic only made the situation worse; it’s been a case of bad actors kicking the industry while it was already down.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

HIT Consultant

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). About Natalie Tkachenko , Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX Natalie is a HIPAA-certified expert with high-grade knowledge in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). About Natalie Tkachenko Natalie is a HIPAA-certified expert with high-grade knowledge in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.

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The Cost of Prescription Drugs, Doctors and Patient Access – A View from HIMSS19

Health Populi

But electronic prescribing alone doesn’t solve the Holy Grail challenge for both the pharmaceutical industry and providers: medication adherence. Increasingly, prescriptions are digitally-initiated via ePrescribing platforms.

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What Does The New Tracking Guidance from HHS Mean for Digital Marketers’ Technology Decisions?

HIT Consultant

John Berndt, SVP of Health North America, Valtech Also known as the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) defines and regulates individuals’ medical records and other individually identifiable health information, collectively known as patient healthcare information (PHI).

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