Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

First, a Wall Street Journal profile of Bluebird Bio , a biotech firm that plans to sell gene-replacement therapy extending annual payments to patients based on whether the drug is effective. Some research has found that the actual prices insurers and patients pay bear little relationship to the published charges.”

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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. When this occurred, it didn’t cause more than a ripple of interest outside biotech. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2019

But financial stress due to health care costs is a top factor identified by the American Psychological Association (APA) in their 2018 Stress in America survey. The chart, which is featured in the “Patient is the Payor” chapter of my book, HealthConsuming , illustrates APA’s data on the issue. Look at the line graph on U.S.

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