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Specialty pharma’s next big opportunity: it’s time for patient access to adopt an open protocol

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Open protocol, simply put, is a digital language that facilitates electronic transactions among prescribers, pharmacies, patient support vendors, data aggregators, insurers, and other stakeholders in the specialty pharmaceutical patient journey. You may ask: Can an open protocol be HIPAA compliant?

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7 Ways To Improve Medication Adherence and Lower DIR Fees

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6) Communicate Securely & Efficiently Our HIPAA-compliant 2-way messaging offers a secure point of contact between you and your patients. You can increase adherence by simplifying communication, making it easy to share protected information like insurance cards and Rx numbers.

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Wearables: managing complexities in data privacy and consent in healthcare tech

Pharmaceutical Technology

Alongside fitness trackers and smartwatches, there are also medical devices used to monitor a patient’s vitals and some even contain SIM cards to enable two-way communication. While many of us may be happy to share our step-count with others, it’s a very different situation with medical data, which may be sensitive or affect health insurance.

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Bringing the Benefits of eCOA BYOD Strategies to Clinical Studies

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This precipitated a shift from a centralised trial experience to a decentralised one, resulting in participants communicating electronically. They save on purchasing thousands of participant devices and the costs associated with connectivity, insurance, or replacement. BYOD in clinical trials. Statistics show there are 6.5

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Challenges & Opportunities in Emerging Digital Health Technologies

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Given the public health emergency, health authorities offered greater flexibilities in the use of digital health platforms and technologies such as: Enhanced HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) flexibilities in the use of telemedicine services 3. Wireless medical devices. 12 (2022): 1125–1126.

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Ep. 007 – Holly Henry and Kamran Shah Podcast Transcript

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When you think of healthcare, from a HIPAA standpoint like tying everything back just like an individual does, you know start drawing some boundaries. Kamran (KH): I think one thing I always think of is the pharmaceutical industry is probably more privacy minded than most just because of HIPAA and other regulations we have to work under.

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Understanding the current and future state of complex health data protection laws

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Compliance in the US – HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covers several areas relating to health data, with one of the key requirements being a set of standards – the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule – to protect sensitive PHI from being disclosed without the patient’s consent.