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The $2.8M Medicine: How Data Can Help Insurers Pay for Life-Changing Therapies Without Breaking The Bank

HIT Consultant

Many of these treatments are drug-based gene therapies–- but they come with an extremely high price tag. million gene therapy to treat a rare blood disorder. . Treatment with Zolgensma, a gene therapy treatment which has been shown to be effective in treating SMA, costs $2 million – a very high price tag.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"During the early stages of the pandemic, we had many patients that were afraid of going to physical therapy, and several facilities were shut down for extended periods," Lovewell recalled. "If a patient isn't engaging with the platform or watching their physical therapy videos, we step in to help.

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Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more

Healthcare IT Today

In addition, 28% of patients – including 55% of those ages 18 to 24 – said they experience isolation in dealing with their physical and mental health. DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems. Partnerships.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Passive" telehealth refers to storing and accessing digital knowledge bases, health and wellness Web content, and interactive software applications that help us understand, prevent, treat, or recover from threats to our physical and mental health. Region Tag: Global Edition. Carly McCord, Ph.D.,

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

Health Populi

The conclusion of the paper states, “Adjuvant endocrine therapy and chemoendocrine therapy had similar efficacy in women with hormone-receptor-positive, HER2-negative, axillary node-negative breast cancer who had a midrange 21-gene recurrence score.” We are de-escalating toxic therapy.”

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In our case, we rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks, including cancer, orthopedics, physical therapy, as well as additional services such as genetic counseling and nurse education.” Maintaining that operational flexibility was key, he revealed.

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Day 4 Notes from the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Healthcare Law Blog

And we can’t forget that co-morbidity is common among mental and physical health conditions and complicates and increases the cost of effective treatment. We also have latched onto “evidence- based” treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that is manualized to make it easy to be undertaken by lesser-trained professionals.