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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

Bold doing is better,” Dr. Eric Topol introduced his talk yesterday at Medecision’s Liberation 2019 conference. More people going into health care jobs, he continued, with the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics illustrating that we’re adding more human capital to a broken health care system.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

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TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

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Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. W2O notes that these five issues became more-inter-related than ever, compared with previous years’ top consumer health issues. These ten are all life science/pharma companies.

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

Health Populi

One of the most concerning data points on health service avoidance is the drop in pediatric vaccinations which remain below pre-pandemic levels, IQVIA’s data revealed. Shown here in the third chart, note that adult vaccinations have returned to pre-COVID levels, but immunizations for kids were 20% lower than in 2019.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In 2021, the difference between the Top 10 and Bottom 10 in the Sharecare Well-Being Index was 17.7 points in 2019. points, versus 17.0 points in 2020 and 16.1 ” Note that top-ranked states have nearly 1.6 lower rates of severe risks for financial stress.

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Can a Food-As-Medicine App Extend Chronic Health Management at the Grocery Store?

Health Populi

I wrote about the company’s approach to food-as-medicine here in Health Populi in 2019 when Kroger Health began to message and market itself as a trusted health and wellness destination, Health Populi’s Hot Points: Over the 3 decades I’ve advised health care stakeholders across the ecosystem, I’ve benefited from working with (..)

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Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Health Populi

In the past decade, I’ve been spending a lot of time considering SDoH through a variety of lenses across the health/care ecosystem, including care providers like hospitals, health insurance companies, pharma and life science, retail health care front doors, and non-profits and foundations.

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