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Patients Preferences and Difficulties with 5 Different Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FITs) [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: FITs are an accepted method of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and patients’ preferences and difficulties are unknown. Population Studied: 2148 individuals aged 50 to 85 years scheduled for screening or surveillance colonoscopy. FIT manufacturers should develop very clear directions for patients.

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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Cost-sharing interventions and patient education can help improve access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for patients with obesity, according to an abstract presented at the AACE Annual Meeting 2025. The patient was enrolled in a cost-sharing program that reduced her out-of-pocket expenses by 70%, allowing her to access the medication.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. ” Patient points to lower abdomen. M-LLM (Translating for Specialist): “The patient is pointing to the lower abdomen.”

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How to Get Ozempic & GLP-1’s Covered by Insurance (or Save Big with Plum Health Direct Primary Care): The Ultimate Guide You Can’t Afford to Miss!

Plum Health

Everything You Need to Know About Costs and Coverage Patient is inquiring about healthcare. For example, I had a patient who was able to get her Ozempic at a fraction of the cost through Novo Nordisk’s assistance program after her insurance only partially covered the medication. Save with patient assistance programs.

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The Rising Tide of Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement

My Green Doctor

Innovative surgeries, novel pharmaceuticals, and state of the art technology are just a few of the driving forces that have aided the delivery of exceptional care to patients across all specialties. Dilating and anesthetic eye drops are used routinely to treat patients in most ophthalmology clinics. 3 “Each U.S.

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Remote Patient Testing Faces a Cloudy Future under VALID

FDA Law Blog

Although on its face the restriction applies to LDTs, collection device manufacturers could, as a consequence, effectively be precluded from continuing to market their specimen collection devices to labs offering LDTs which enable home collection unless they first obtain authorization specifically for home collection.

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Change is Inevitable – Plan Ahead: An Assessment of FDA’s Draft Guidance on Predetermined Change Control Plans for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Enabled Device Software Functions

FDA Law Blog

The discussion paper described a PCCP as including (1) the types of anticipated modifications (SaMD Pre-Specifications or SPS) based on the retraining and model update strategy and (2) the associated methodology (Algorithm Change Protocol or ACP) being used to implement those changes in a controlled manner to manage patient risks.