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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

When the mandates of the Affordable Care Act hit the marketplace in 2013, for example, insurance brokers nationwide were challenged with delivering additional value to their customers to offset rising healthcare costs for employers. You may have a proprietary product or service that has someone else’s product built into your solution.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. Unfortunately, healthcare belief and opinion rather than science seem to rule too much of healthcare today.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. healthcare (17% of GDP and climbing). The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. healthcare bill is only exceeded by the approximately $3.8

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 4)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction. The above study, funded by Forest Pharmaceuticals, quickly boosted the sales of Celexa to depressed children and teens.

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HR Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industries

Vantage Circle

All of which will imply how the pharmaceutical industry is likely to conduct its business in the near future. How are they going to meet patients’ needs and healthcare systems extensively? It pressurizes the healthcare system, both in terms of nature and scale of the demand and healthcare costs and drug development.

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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction

Mad in America

Yousaf Raza Illicit Ties with the Pharmaceutical Industry Prescribing more medications than are justified is the number-one crime of which a shamefully large number of psychiatrists are guilty. The answer is simple: it is also the standard that pharmaceutical companies hold us to. This is where the kickbacks come from.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

Mad in America

My therapy training has played a part; I am now able to step into other peoples frames of reference. While I trained to become a therapist, I paid my bills by working as a debt advisor for the debt charity StepChange. Nowadays I find it most helpful to look at things in terms of power dynamics and vested interests.