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I Just got my new iPhone 7. And I realize now that there are several devices I can no longer use. While many individuals were complaining about the removal of the 3.5 mm earphone jack and their now irrelevantearphones, I lamented the loss of many digital health tools in this generation of phone design. Then I realized that we had been down this road before, when the iPhone 5 had moved on from the 30-pin dock to the Lightning connector now ubiquitous across most recent generation iOS products.
With rising healthcare costs, more informed and engaged patients, and advancing technology, health wearables have seen a significant uptake in recent years. However, the full potential of health wearables has yet to be recognised and there are still challenges to be resolved. What needs to be done on the regulatory, technical and healthcare side to take health wearables to the next level?
Tumeric and Apixaban – Guest Post by Amanuel Tseggai A 72 year old man was newly diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and started on therapeutic dose of Enoxaparin after he was admitted to a hospital. Four days into his treatment with Enoxaparin his primary care provider decided to switch him to Apixaban- one of the newer oral […]. The post Tumeric and Apixaban appeared first on Med Ed 101.
Vendors’ privacy policies can put physicians using speech recognition in a tough spot. M*Modal’s brochure “Using the Cloud for More Than Just Architecture and Access” starts out with the statement, “Healthcare professionals may have sky-high expectations of their cloud-based speech-recognition technology – but what exactly happens in the cloud and how does that connect to the real-world users on the ground?
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The Premise It comes as no surprise that with all the hype surrounding the use of technology to transform healthcare, that companies (startups & Pharma) are looking to transform traditional medication use. As a pharmacist, this is perhaps the biggest interest I have in the Digital Health sphere, as I feel it may have the largest impact on my profession, and role as an educator.
The Issue: For many presentations I give throughout the year in different programs of my University, my slide deck inevitably ends up being the core study material for my students. While flipped classroom models and use of adjuntive material (e.g. videos/Youtube) have cut down on the amount of slides and time spent in class on cases and material, the slide deck still reigns supreme.
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The Issue: For many presentations I give throughout the year in different programs of my University, my slide deck inevitably ends up being the core study material for my students. While flipped classroom models and use of adjuntive material (e.g. videos/Youtube) have cut down on the amount of slides and time spent in class on cases and material, the slide deck still reigns supreme.
Recently I went up for advancement from provisional status. Due in part of my love of trying to make things graphically appealing and as a format to get a story across, I attempted to make two infographics detailing my scholarly activities. The first one was a graphic outlining what classes I have taught or been involved with during my time at the university.
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Over the past 20 years, behavioural economics has identified factors that influence and determine how people behave, including alternative decision-making pathways and many cognitive biases and heuristics. Taking account of these helps to build a clear view of how healthcare customers think and behave in relation to your product in the real world. This short masterclass explores ‘quantitative demand assessment research’ – what it is and how insights from behavioural economics can improve the app
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Join us for a one-hour live debate on Cancer Treatment Access: Right Strategy, Right Approach, Right Outcomes. To ensure funding and patient access to innovative cancer therapies, industry now have to navigate a new English cancer-treatment funding ecosystem, engaging with NICE and NHS England to realise a yes, no or conditional arrangement. How can oncology treatments achieve a positive NICE appraisal in the new world and what will the mechanics of RWE be in the event of conditional funding via
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In today’s competitive, highly regulated environment, product success is dependent upon data and fact-based decision making. More and more, Medical Affairs teams play a pivotal role in education pre- and post-launch, yet the explosion of big data in healthcare is changing how we make value-based decisions that are critical to success. This webinar will explore the challenges Medical Affairs teams have finding a repeatable, objective and compliant solution to identify and manage their strategic p
The ASCO Annual Meeting, the largest global oncology meeting and increasingly the centre of a kaleidoscope of social media coverage each year. As a snapshot, 2014 saw 40,000 tweets and 140m+ impressions over the conference days, 2015 grew to 60,000 tweets and 250m+ impressions and the 2016 buzz is already louder and more plentiful than last year. This webinar will examine the conversation around ASCO 2016, its relationship with ASCO, value to and involvement from stakeholder groups and how it wi
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Access to limited distribution drugs and payer contracts are key to pharmacy expansion. But how do you prepare your operations to take the next step? Meaningful data: Collect and share clinical data regarding outcomes, utilization, and more Reporting: Limited distribution models require efficient tracking and reporting systems Workflows: Align workflows with specific pharma and payer contractual requirements For in-depth, expert insights on pharmacy expansion, watch this webinar from Inovalon.
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The first in a trilogy of webinars focussed on the topic; Unlocking the value; the economic equation and part of the IMS Health Practical Insights series. While it remains the gold standard, the feasibility of large scale randomised clinical trials within a pipeline that is ever more focused on niche and personalised medicines is decreasing – particularly in the fields of rare diseases and oncology.
The current market research climate in the pharmaceutical industry is one of “doing more with less”. At the same time the number of healthcare professionals engaging with market research is on the decline. So how do marketing teams cope with these two challenges and continue to produce good business intelligence for big brand decisions? Cello Health Insight’s quantitative team, IQ, argues that this is an ideal environment in which to start making greater use of advanced analytics techniques to m
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We all know the negatives of warfarin, but lets take a look at the advantages of warfarin. NOACs are gaining in popularity, no doubt about that. No matter which anticoagulant we are using, we must recognize that there are always positives and negatives. It is incredibly important to recognize those positives and negatives to best […]. The post What Advantages Does Warfarin Have Over NOACS?
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