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Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Low Compared to Rest-of-World’s Health Citizens

Health Populi

Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points. There’s another piece of math worth doing here: a chasm between biotech and pharma of 17 percentage points worth of trust — that is the difference between the 55% of American trusting biotech versus 38% trusting pharma.

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Healthcare, Heal Thyself! How the Industry Can and Should Play the Trust Card

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” That’s based on the fact that nurses, physicians and pharmacists continue to be the most trusted professions in America year after year in Gallup’s annual survey on honesty and ethics in the U.S., Most industries operating in the U.S. and Edelman’s finding that health care’s trust buoyed in the pandemic era.

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

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Finally, virtual doctors and visiting nurses will add to the portfolio of both delivery workflows and the diversifying patient care team envisioning safer and more convenient care direct-ot-patient.

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Trust Is the Currency for Consumer Health Engagement – A Bottom-Line at CES 2020

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Most consumers, in fact, identified technology companies as the source of the most health care innovation 20 years from now in a RealClear Politics poll conducted last year, which I’ve been citing in my talks with healthcare industry players in pharma, biotech, hospitals and health plan organizations.

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

Health Populi

First, meet the stakeholders: they are patients, physicians (prescribers, which today can go beyond doctors per se to include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and others depending on state licensure), payers, and manufacturers of the drugs. There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S.