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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

The poll results are published in Public Perspectives on Personalized Medicine , with the top-line finding that life science industry innovators must better educate and inform consumers on the opportunities and benefits of personalized medicine. This picture of U.S. into the precision medicine category.

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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Strengths, Opportunities, Constraints and Barriers to the Commercialisation of Evidence Based Digital Health Technologies in Australia

Lloyd Price

ANDHealth ANDHealth is a not-for-profit company that was established in 2017 by a consortium of industry partners.The goal of ANDHealth is to develop a more effective ecosystem to support Australian digital health companies as they navigate the commercialisation pathway to institutional investment and international market entry.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Healthcare is a $3 trillion+ industry wrought with waste and middlemen.Two insurers, UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, are among America’s largest firms by revenue, bringing in $200 billion and $185 billion respectively in 2017. By June more than 500 hospitals were connected to the Health Records app representing 50 health systems.

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Blockchain in Healthcare: A Vehicle Towards Digital Health 2.0?

The Digital Health Corner

Herding a patient’s data from many sources into a single record has always been a lofty goal of digital health. According to an excellent whitepaper describing a case study of Medrec , a platform utilizing blockchain technology, health information interoperability is facilitated with the use of blockchain.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

The worst-case scenario for insurance companies would be if Haven successfully negotiates directly with health providers on behalf of its employer group — a tough task for any venture, even one of Haven’s stature. It might be giving them the ability to store [their] information.

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