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

Health Populi

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. In 2019, J.D. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Home is evolving as an impactful site for health care, we are learning from the pandemic.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. Traditional care delivery is not working for far too many consumers. Please elaborate.

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

Health Populi

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. Based on this methodology and set of assumptions, W2O Group identified 20 health care companies that emerged most relevant, shown in the third graphic from the report. These ten are all life science/pharma companies.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing. We’re living in/through and must plan for these ongoing changes, whether we work in provider organizations, health plans, pharma and life science companies, and to be sure, technology and retail/health organizations.

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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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What does ‘Digital Transformation’ mean for Healthcare Startups in 2019?

Lloyd Price

"Telemedicine is here to stay" and other lessons from a recent Digital Business Transformation and Innovation Summit for healthcare, life science, chemical and other execs. Forget a primary care physician. Millennials will not even go to urgent care [centers]. We’ve used it so much. Source: [link]

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Softbank gearing up for a major new HealthTech investment drive?

Lloyd Price

The company also invested $500 million in Ro Health, a telehealth company that provides primary care services to patients nationwide. Life sciences: SoftBank invests in companies that are developing new drugs, devices, and diagnostics. These investments suggest that SoftBank is bullish on the future of healthtech.