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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

Health Populi

Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way Americans currently pay for medicines. health citizens access to high-value and lifesaving meds. Now: consider Costco.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

This capability is attracting pharmaceutical and life science companies, health care providers and research organizations to take a closer look at Seqster’s offering. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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

Health Populi

patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. Over one-half of Americans blame pharmaceutical companies as most responsible for the opioid crisis, followed by physicians, whom 39% of health consumers blame, and patients, whom 38% of people blame. Exacerbating U.S.

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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

Health Populi

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. Americans borrowed $88 billion in 2018 to pay for health care spending, West Health and Gallup estimated. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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Join us at “Transforming Community Pharmacies in to High Street Clinics”

mHealth Insight

Transforming Community Pharmacies into High Street Clinics is a conference organised by NELLPC and will be held from 9-5pm on Thursday the 15th November 2018 at The Old Town Hall, 29 Broadway, Stratford, London, E15 4BQ. Mobile Health: enabler of empowered patients David Doherty, Co-founder and Director, 3G Doctor.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

IQVIA’s national prescription data revealed that prescriptions for mental health drugs grew 8% since 2019 — with a 33% rise among girls under 19. There is another data point in the study on women’s health and prescriptions — for ADHD drugs. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Life expectancy in the U.S.

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Pharma Spending Gone Bipolar: Generics At One End, Specialty Drugs on the Other

Health Populi

As of March 2018, there were over 3 million data points on over 600,000 drug ratings in the SERMO database, which the company terms “the FICO score for drugs.” ” These ratings cover over 2,100 pharmaceutical brands for which over 40,000 having submitted opinions.