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How to Improve Patient Confidence When Rolling Out New Medical Technology

HIT Consultant

For many patients, it’s clear that new medical technology (or medtech) isn’t effectively providing the experience needed to improve their medical condition. Whether streamlining a product’s form factor or instructional materials, it’s important to account for various use scenarios that might shape patient interactions.

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Shifting the Paradigm: Data-Driven Product Development and the AI-Driven Standard of Care

HIT Consultant

However, with the advent of advanced technologies and data analysis, product development has become much more informed and proactive, paving the way for new technology that not only improves both economic and clinical outcomes but is also faster to market. billion medical technology group.

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Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the Siracusa Principles to COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill Of Health

Yet when COVID-19 – the greatest health emergency in a century – devastated the world, the Siracusa Principles seemed unequal to the task – too narrow, including with their remit limited to civil and political rights, not sufficiently specific, and above all, without sufficient accountability.

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Relative importance of pharmaceuticals on health outcomes: 1990-2015

Healthcare ECONOMIST

reduced smoking rates) is having an impact, but another key key question is, what is medical technologies are driving these gains? Is it new surgical techniques, better diagnostics, improved medical devices, or new pharmaceuticals? Health outcomes have improved in the US over the last 25 years. 2019 Jan;25(1):66-71.

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3 Ways Developers & Clinicians Can Unite to Drive Innovation

HIT Consultant

Jussi Reijonen, Account Manager at Medixine While contemporary healthcare is slowly but surely embracing novel technologies, front-line nurses are still a much under-used resource in bridging the gap between innovation and patient well-being.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Replicate The Human Touch in Healthcare Provision?

HIT Consultant

There is fevered speculation about how the technology might be used in other areas of medical technology to improve patient outcomes and reduce the burden on hard-pressed, and often under-resourced, medical practitioners. Ensuring transparency, accountability, and patient autonomy must be prioritized.

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Challenges in Preserving Access to Orphan Drugs Under an HTA Framework

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The key findings from the article are: HTA practices are designed to be used for medical technologies and pharmaceuticals that treat commonly-occurring diseases, and are not fit to determine the value of orphan drugs for rare disease, which face unique challenges. That is a title of a new white paper from FTI Consulting and Alexion.