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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Society for Participatory Medicine

Patient engagement is measured by Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Processes and Services (CAHPS) surveys & Patient Activation Measures (PAM). Healthcare stakeholders such as health systems, pharmaceutical companies, biotech and life sciences firms, and insurance companies serve patients as end users.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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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. This summer, Apple opened Health Records API to health IT innovators to enable them to create apps that utilize the data.