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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

states since 2008. Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S., Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S. When the study launched, Well-Being Index evaluated five domains: physical, social, community, purpose, and financial.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. For this study, PwC conducted 21 surveys and 12 interviews in April through May 2023 among health plan actuaries covering about 100 million employer-sponsored lives and 10 million ACA marketplace members.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

They are focused on creating strategic partnerships to develop a cross-company strategy for health care and life sciences innovation. Verily Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, was founded in 2015. Google started a health-records initiative in 2008, but shut it down by 2011, citing poor adoption.