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Ada Health : beyond symptom checking to the holy grail of healthcare

Lloyd Price

In an article in Wired magazine in 2017, Ada’s app’s diagnoses outshone those of its competitors, Babylon and YourMD, however. As a result, more and more investors are paying attention to the health sector which, due to its complexity, has traditionally been left to biotech or medical devices investors.

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Rx 2018: A New Era of Specialty Drugs, Telehealth, Mobile Apps and Value, IQVIA Reports

Health Populi

Specifically, $19 billion worth of biotech spending will find biosimilar competition starting in 2018 for the first time. President Trump made clear on the campaign trail and in his interview with TIME magazine as Person of the Year that pharmaceutical companies’ pricing needed to be reined in using government pressure.

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

consumers trusted the biotech health industry segment compared with the pharmaceutical segment. President Trump’s platform when running for office in 2016 was to deal with the cost of prescription drugs, discussed in his conversation with TIME magazine when he put the drug industry “on notice,” in the words of CNN.