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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. . For example, a child suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, a progressive neurological disease, typically requires extensive, expensive care during his lifetime.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To Stacy first stepped a toe into social media via online support groups focused on rare diseases for Emmett.

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Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in Healthcare Systems

HIT Consultant

The promise of personalized medicine is a world in which interventions, screening, and therapeutics are targeted to those most likely to get the disease. Polygenic risk scores will help society reach this ambition by accurately assessing the contribution that one’s DNA makes to disease risk. . Many factors affect your risk of disease.

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Health Provider News

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to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to hospitals Propella Therapeutics, Pittsboro firm with 5 employees, sold for $175M Winston-Salem’s clinical research organization Javara raises $9.43

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Health Provider News

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Rhode Island Ranked as the Second-Worst State for Doctors The Centurion Foundation’s purchase of Roger Williams and Fatima hospitals would rely on bond funding In Bethpage, The Safe Center creates mental health clinic School district, pediatric urgent care partner to provide mental health services King nominated as permanent R.I.

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Health Provider News – February 3, 2023

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Joe’s to buy part of big Onondaga County orthopedic surgery center for $25 million NewYork-Presbyterian nurses push back on alleged doubling of retiree healthcare costs New York hospital names 1st surgeon CEO Northwell VC arm backs company detecting emotions with AI in $12.7M