Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

Peoples’ experience with health plans rank at the bottom of the roster, on par with rental cars and TV/Internet service providers. This top-ranked health plan was rated 184 out of 318 companies across the 20 industries in the overall study. Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey ranked second among the plans.

Telehealth 168

Telehealth Primary Care Patient Experience Digital Health 168

Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve talked and written about this concept in the past couple of years as one way to extend healthy eating and living opportunities to people residing in food and commercial deserts — a way to overcome a key social determinant of health which is healthy food access.

Primary Care 120

Primary Care Patient Experience Connected Health Digital Health 120

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. consumer spending for education, food and health care substantially grew, crowding out spending for other categories like transportation and housing.

Primary Care 147

Primary Care Patient Experience Digital Health 147

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

To address that challenge, in 2017 PLM secured a $100 million (controlling interest) investment from iCarbonX , a Chinese company that is amassing patient data to discover cures for disease. And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch. It is impossible to paint them with a one-color brush.

Pharmaceuticals 216

Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience 216

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2023

Amazon ranked #8 in the top 100, and I’ve carved out a singular N of 1 designation for the company as a “cross-segment” player across the health/care ecosystem. Band-Aid® has long been a powerful consumer health love-brand for J&J (on the unregulated consumer side of the business, differentiated from pharma).

Primary Care 170

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Life Science Patient Experience 170

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2023

Amazon ranked #8 in the top 100, and I’ve carved out a singular N of 1 designation for the company as a “cross-segment” player across the health/care ecosystem. Band-Aid® has long been a powerful consumer health love-brand for J&J (on the unregulated consumer side of the business, differentiated from pharma).

Primary Care 156

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Life Science Patient Experience 156

Health Populi

MAY 29, 2023

Amazon ranked #8 in the top 100, and I’ve carved out a singular N of 1 designation for the company as a “cross-segment” player across the health/care ecosystem. Band-Aid® has long been a powerful consumer health love-brand for J&J (on the unregulated consumer side of the business, differentiated from pharma).

Primary Care 156

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Life Science Patient Experience 156

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment.

Medicare 147

Medicare Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Patient Experience 147