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

Health Populi

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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As COVID-19 Rocks Markets, Digital Health Start-Ups Rake In Cash

Lloyd Price

Private equity and venture capital financing of digital health start-ups reached an all-time high of just over $3 billion in Q1 2020. Start-ups in the mental health arena also saw landmark levels of funding in Q1 2020, reaching an astounding total of $576 million. Users start by taking an assessment and picking a payment plan.

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

Health Populi

There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S. Integrating with the telehealth service Care on the Optum Store. This last aspect is taking a strategic page out of the playbooks of Hims, Nurx, Ro, Truepill and other DTC-facing prescription drug + telehealth services that have proliferated in the U.S.