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Bonfire Analytics Raises Oversubscribed $2M Venture Round to Accelerate Digital Health, Medical Device, & Biotech Adoption Across Healthcare Providers

Healthcare IT Today

Already worth $350 billion in 2019, the industry is expected to continue increasing given our rapidly aging population and that national healthcare spend is almost 20% of the GDP , as well as the surge in new digital tools, devices, and therapeutics that can drive better patient outcomes.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies]. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. The one segment which has stayed relatively even from 2018 has been biotech, 55% that year and 55% again in 2021.

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Spring 2019: Healthcare Updates to Know

Advanced Medical Reviews

Sharpless is a proponent of big data and previously founded two biotech companies. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted new data on projected national health expenditures for 2018-2027. percent growth in 2019. CMS Publishes New National Health Expenditures Data.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case.

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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 Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA

Health Populi

Key issues facing the industry in 2019 and into the next few years range from regulation of dietary supplements and the role of CBD in self-care, the omni-channel consumer, ecommerce vs. bricks-and-mortar, trust, and wrestling with consumer privacy. Consumer health went opposite, up 7 points, biotech up 3, insurance up 8, pharma up 6.

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Prescription Drug Costs In America Through the Patient Lens, via IQVIA, GoodRx and a New $2 Million Therapy

Health Populi

In 2018, we saw more incentives to inspire adherence to prescription drug regimens, particularly in Medicare Part D along with increasing focus by pharmacists and providers. For people enrolled in Medicare Part D, 20% faced over $500 in OOP costs. Patients abandon over 20% of new prescriptions when their OOP costs rise above $50.

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