This indeed makes it much more difficult to pin down and see which physicians are using which drugs, but from their own internal sales information each drug company will have sales from drug stores, so the overall business from a pre set territory can be derived, so perhaps a new curve in Pharma marketing...
So now one can order up and set up your time with a local lab, which is referenced on the site and in my area here it listed LabCorp locations as they are listed as a partner. This really is becoming a help yourself world when you need to order up your own and can even pay online. What else...
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on 10-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, PHR, Patient, Personal Health Records, LabCorp, MIB, Lab testing, Patient Service Centers, Digital Lab Order
As a physician, if you haven’t been marketed yet, you might expect some marketing efforts forthcoming soon. In Florida the insurance companies are offering free e-prescribing and I might guess by going through a clearinghouse that this will go directly into the records of one’s medications with...
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on 09-22-2008
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From another standpoint...more paper to throw away...right now I have a garbage can right next to my mail box to get rid of all the other crap that I get...so this would just add more to the task...and kill of a few more trees...back to the other side of the coin, it is a law to fight marketing...and...
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on 05-28-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, privacy, Drug Information, Marketing, Scripts, Pharmacies, Information Overload, Patient