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Grand Rounds June 16, 2023: BeatPain Utah: Partnering With Community Health Centers Within a Socio-Technical Framework (Julie Fritz, PT, PhD, FAPTA; Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Discussion Themes Motivating patients to engage in self-management of health conditions is a challenge, irrespective of whether the intervention is delivered in person or remotely. Designing interventions that can meet everyone’s needs can be a challenge in a study that involves rural/urban and racial/ethnic diversity.

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Grand Rounds November 17, 2023: Personalized Patient Data and Behavioral Nudges to Improve Adherence to Chronic Cardiovascular Medications: Results from the Nudge Study (Michael Ho, MD, PhD; Sheana Bull, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

In Years 2-5 (UH3 Phase) the aims were to conduct and evaluate a pragmatic patient-level randomized intervention across 3 healthcare systems to improve adherence to chronic cardiovascular (CV) medications. Patients could reply with Done and the message reminders would stop. The study would then recalculate the gaps.

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Grand Rounds December 2, 2022: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mobile Health Intervention in Heart Failure and Diabetes: Lessons Learned (G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Making lifestyle changes is difficult especially for people living with chronic diseases, where healthy behaviors could make a big difference. This study asks how can we better facilitate health behaviors in patients with chronic diseases and can we leverage technology? Medication adherence can be a barrier to effectiveness.

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Grand Rounds December 8, 2023: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial of the Jumpstart Intervention to Promote Communication about Goals of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Serious Illness (Ruth Engelberg, PhD; Erin Kross, MD; Robert Lee, MD, MS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Patients who were eligible had been hospitalized at least 12 hours but no more than 96 hours, age 55 and older with at least one Dartmouth Atlas chronic condition, or they were age 80 or older. It is something we are thinking about a lot in the outpatient trial. Clinicians could receive prompts on an almost daily basis.

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Ways IoT Has Transformed The Pulse Of Healthcare, And Will Continue To Do So In The Future

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Since the data is collected for a long period of time, the doctor can easily evaluate the current and past medical conditions. Patients do not need to visit hospitals to get the basic status of their health conditions. This helps in analysis and diagnosis of health conditions like cardiovascular disease. Services In Remote Area.

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Advanced therapies and the high-profile pricing dilemma

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The advancements made in drug development over the last decade have seen the arrival of a number of treatments that offer one-time cures and more effective therapies for conditions in smaller patient populations. The model for making a profit from medicine is geared towards delivering medicines regularly, usually for chronic conditions.

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Company Spotlight: Cue Biopharma Innovates in the Immunotherapy Space with its Immuno-STAT Platform

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Why not use a biologic platform to essentially do in vivo cell therapy directly in the patient?”. In addition to these targets in Cue’s portfolio, there are a couple of others that the company is working on that currently remain undisclosed. “The

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