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Does the 340B program improve quality of care?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

According to a paper by Smith et al.

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Healthcare Trends to Watch in 2024

Healthcare ECONOMIST

This rapid increase has drawn increased scrutiny from lawmakers and researchers, particularly concerning inflated pricing, limited competition, and decreased quality of care linked to private equity-backed organizations. billion in 2010 to $119.9 billion in 2019. Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A). Digital Health.

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Falling Revenue Means Pharmacies in Italy Aren’t Keeping up with Other EU Countries

Bill Of Health

In 2021, the total revenue of Italian pharmacies dropped by 4% compared to 2015, despite Italy being the fifth largest country in the EU for pharmaceutical expenditures. This contraction in total revenue was mainly influenced by the decline in Italian pharmaceutical expenditures over the last decade: compared to the revenue of 18.8

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Mitigating Serious Fall Risks and Associated Costs and Injuries with AI-Driven Motion Sensor Technology

HIT Consultant

It allows patients to actively and compliantly engage in highly effective in-home rehabilitation that is remotely managed by clinicians and other healthcare providers, improving balance, and reducing risks without sacrificing quality of care.

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Healthcare workers are fed up and fighting back

Center for Health Progress

There’s likely a doctor in training on their 75th hour of work that week, scrambling to find a more affordable medication for their patient who is barred from prescription assistance programs by pharmaceutical companies. We all deserve quality healthcare. We don’t need bandaids. The system needs a shakeup.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Patients managing cardiology and vascular diseases expressed the highest praise for quality of care using videoconferencing (97%, virtually all patients polled, saying quality care was at least as good or better than face-to-face care. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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Confidence in Science/Healthcare

Healthcare Leadership

Do we have the tools to differentiate between helpful marketing that aims to inform versus the darkly-shaded ask of pharmaceutical marketing that often does not align with best practices? Measuring Patients’ Trust In Physicians When Assessing Quality Of Care.” Who do we trust and why? The New York Times , January 15, 2018, sec.