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Like banks, healthcare will become digital-first in 2022, Zoom healthcare lead says

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He sees three major developments: healthcare will become a digital-first system; decentralization will become a major theme for health and life sciences organizations; and video will be part of every healthcare experience. You predict that decentralization will become a major theme for health and life science organizations.

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

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In 2019, J.D. Power called telehealth, “the best consumer healthcare experience you’ve never tried.” We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020.

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

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For example, in 2019, some of the big health care issues for consumers were politics (in general), women’s health, the opioid crisis, and vaping/tobacco — for which dots didn’t connect nearly as intimately as the 2020 top 5 topics. These ten are all life science/pharma companies. The top ten were: AstraZeneca.

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Pharma’s Future Relevance Depends on Empathy, Messaging, Partnering, and Supporting Patients and Providers

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Top-line, Accenture points to four pillars on which the pharma industry can “reinvent its relevance,” as the report title suggests: To express greater empathy, understanding the patient experience of delaying treatment, financial impacts, and mental health challenges the pandemic has caused.

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Patients Growing Health Consumer Muscles Expect Digital Services

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consumers age 18 and over in August and September 2019. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S. Healthcare Consumer Experience Study. And this is not only for providers and plans, but for pharma and life science companies, as well.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

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While Peloton was a punchline in some peoples’ jokes at the 2019 holiday season ( see here ), the company had an enviable growing waiting list in 2020 — the right thing at the right time.

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

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– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. ORLANDO, Fla.