Contributors
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
Winding Back the Ageing Process Using Biological Clocks
Biological clocks could play an important role in helping to promote healthy ageing and to stem the growing incidence of age-related diseases by improving the quality of life of the aged, reducing mortality and relieving the burden on overwhelmed health and social care resources.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Putting Joy Back Into Healthcare; 5 Ways EHRs Can Alleviate Clinician Burnout
Making EHRs work with and not against clinicians is possible. When EHRs take a human-centered design approach, collaborating closely with clinicians to optimize workflows, the EHR can stop being the focus of clinicians’ days, and instead support them as they provide care to patients
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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What The Medical Community Needs to Know to Improve Care for Neurodivergent Patients
As an autistic person with chronic illness, I’ve sat in my car and cried after doctor’s appointments where debilitating symptoms were dismissed as anxiety or communication with staff broke down. That’s why as a healthcare executive, I’m working to change that experience for others like me.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
How Medicare Coverage Diversifies Access to Innovation
Appropriate Medicare reimbursement of high-intensity focused ultrasound for prostate disease is a significant development for the treatment for men 65 years and older today.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
Accelerating the Move to Precision Oncology
By continuing an open discussion on precision medicine and precision care, we can truly accelerate pharmacogenomic testing to its full potential and focus on providing the highest quality care to those who need it most.
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Prescription For Success: Invest in the Pharmacy Now to Realize Financial Growth
Hospital executives should rethink the immediate impulse to achieve savings by cutting pharmacy jobs and instead focus on fixing this integral part of a hospital system’s functionality.
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Health Tech Startups Should Consider Adding Data to Their Marketing & PR Strategy
Creating a successful primary data marketing campaign relies on asking the right questions, keeping the end user in mind, proper analysis and a long-term plan for its use.
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Don’t Be Caught Unprepared: How to Develop a Crisis Communications Plan
On any given day there may be more pressing issues to handle, and many companies believe “it won’t happen to us” – that is, until it does happen to you, and then it’s more important than ever to be prepared and confident with your crisis communications plan.
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Why Digital Marketing for Healthcare Needs To Redefine the Traditional ‘Blueprint’ Strategy
Healthcare brands should always build their own digital marketing strategy from scratch – rather than using a blueprint from another successful digital industry.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Nurses
It’s Time for Nursing To Return to Its Roots
Many physicians, podiatrists, psychologists, and occupational and physical therapists are able to take advantage of the ability to be an independent contractor with little scrutiny. Those who oppose it when it comes to nursing fail to see nurses as anything but a tax classification; they don’t understand that trying to corral nurses back into a system of work that does not work for them will only intensify the nursing shortage by exacerbating the flight from the workforce.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
What if Pilotitis Is Just Part of Strengthening Your Innovation Immune System?
Pilotitis, a term commonly used in digital health to describe the tendency to launch numerous small-scale pilot projects without committing to or scaling pilots to full scale implementations. But while painful for many, it can also be a valuable tool for organizations and validate new ideas, build organizational resilience, build a culture of quantifying success, learn how to activate data, and actually improve clinical, organizational and innovation-related outcomes.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Dying in the Waiting Room: Emergency Departments Have Become the Nexus of the Newest Healthcare Crisis
The ED boarding crisis is not one that’s going to be solved overnight. But left to continue unchecked, it will only engender wider discontent, decrease patient satisfaction, and ultimately lead to worse outcomes.
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Courts Allowed to Ban Mife Today, Viagra Tomorrow?
If a drug’s FDA approval could be overturned by any judge, anywhere, anytime the pharmaceutical industry would be severely impacted. While mifepristone is no blockbuster, a legal precedent allowing courts to overturn the FDA’s approval could be applied to other drugs like blockbuster drugs like Viagra, Humira, or the new diabetes, weight-loss drugs Ozempic or Wegovy.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
Moving up the Digital Maturity Ladder in an Evolving BioPharmaceutical Ecosystem
Digital maturity will require shared data standards, strategies for streamlining data management and a collaborative approach that involves all players in the biopharma supply chain.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
Digital Biomarkers: The Key to Delivering on the Promise of Personalized Medicine
Digital biomarkers today serve as a valuable monitoring tool, providing details about a patient’s general health and response to treatment. But, as technology continues to develop, they could fuel predictive insights about a patient’s future health outcomes and disease trajectory, as well as demonstrate measurable quality of life improvements.
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It’s Time for Healthcare To Embrace Patient-Friendly Language
Recent regulations from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and Centers […]
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future
A new decentralized network of the future exists and is in operation today. Large payers and providers are already beginning to use it for administrative transactions, although clinical transactions are also envisioned.
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ChatGPT in Healthcare – The Promise and the Danger
AI-generated information can be considered akin to obtaining a second or even third opinion regarding one’s health – it makes up part of what needs to be known, but it’s not the entire story.