Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

Mental health 157

Mental health Medical Billing Medical Technology Pharmaceuticals 157

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

Pharmaceuticals 130

Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Connected Health 130

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Kroger will expand its food-as-medicine platform, deploying tele-nutrition with registered dietitians and growing evidence-base for prescribing a Mediterranean (or DASH) diet for heart-health, among other eating styles. Growing adoption of “broad-spectrum” self-care – including digital health tools.

Health Technology 156

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

And PLM did business deals with large pharmaceutical companies who wanted the data to advance their research and development efforts – that’s how the PLM business was primarily funded. Patients knew this – PLM was emphatic about transparency in its community and the company never hid what they were doing with people’s data.

Pharmaceuticals 216

Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience 216

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2023

Consider this ecosystem diagram from the World Heart Federation, roadmap for digital health in cardiology. It’s a circular, iterative process of empowering patients and providers, improving long-term patient outcomes and patient experience, promoting universal health services coverage, and ultimately reducing health care costs.

Digital Health 156

Digital Health Patient Experience Health Information Pharmaceuticals 156

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In challenging moments like this COVID-19 pandemic threat, we look for gifts of learning and opportunity — and this is one where the case for telehealth and broadband connectivity comes to the fore. TIME magazine covered this yesterday in a mainstream media story.

Telehealth 291

Telehealth Connected Health Interoperability Pharmaceuticals 291

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The new year will see a “looming tsunami” of high prices in healthcare, regulation trumping health reform, more business deals reshaping the health/care industry landscape, and patients growing do-it-yourself care muscles, according to Top health industry issues of 2020: Will digital start to show an ROI from the PwC Health Research Institute. (..)

Life Science 194

Life Science Medical Billing Health Data Primary Care 194

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

During the hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) challenged Azar, “As a pharmaceutical executive, you raised drug prices year after year. Note that Azar was once President of Eli Lilly, among the world’s largest pharma companies and marketer of products that treat diabetes, among other conditions.

Medicare 147

Medicare Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Patient Experience 147