This company just had it’s IPO and became public not too long ago and as you can read they hold data on 85% of the world’s prescriptions which means of course they sell a lot of data too. When you look at the IMS executives, very little in clinical backgro…
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There’s more than one area to address here and this is in part what’s making doctors crazy as they have to work within all these parameters. First and foremost so much of it is driven by the insurance industry. I realize they have to keep costs in line and …
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For the independent pharmacy, generic drug costs have gone up as high as 30 percent and the pharmacy cannot price match big chain drug stores as regulations do not permit that to happen. In reading this article further the pharmacy said they break even on …
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I have been asked this question many times and with the war on both cost of drugs and the war on cash, I thought this might be helpful to put some links in as a reference. Granted all the drugs you need won’t be on the lists perhaps, but there’s enough of th…
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Now what kind of a question is that? Of course industries such as social networks like Facebook will always have a demand but that’s not what I’m talking about here, but rather the need for a business to hire data scientists. Right now the move is hot and e…
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Well yesterday came and left and I have been reading over and over that the life of most mHealth apps is around two weeks, so look at the money spent on all of this again and you come back to square one with pushing models on humans they don’t want and few ha…
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This is just taking this a little too far and we know when you let Quants go wild, they will go, and go and go and quantitate and create spurious correlations and sell and market you on the fact they they have value and they do not. If you read around the we…
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Just when you think it can’t get any worse it does. If you read here often enough then you know I am a privacy advocate and have had an informal campaign going for a few years on indexing and licensing data sellers, that take your data, without your permissi…
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Would I used this, nope. More and more we all know there’s a trade off for apps and services and of course I’m sure this is no different as we all know United is the king at gathering data, data and more data about you, so why would this be any different? S…
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You may not hear about this a lot but it’s a big move as consumers are getting tired of being marketed and sold. I spent many years in sales and also time as a developer and of course I have respect for both but today the methodologies of “chasing” consumers…
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