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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

The first graphic from the report illustrates four dimensions of health and the factors underneath each of them that can bolster or diminish our well-being: personal behaviors (such as sleep and diet), personal attributes (like financial situation and genetics), interventions (e.g., To extend life expectancy, globally.

Life Science

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

Capgemini offers recommendations to providers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers to tap opportunities outside of inpatient settings and, increasingly, to the home and digital device. ” Of course, this requires cross-agency and cross-health care industry collaboration on a national basis.

Digital Health

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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Today, the health and wellness consumer can DIY all of these things at home through a huge array of products available in pharmacies, supermarkets, Big Box stores, cosmetic superstores, convenience and dollar stores, and other retail channels – increasingly, online (THINK, of course, of Amazon — more on the A-word in the Hot Points below).

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Medicare Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

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. How could you?”.

Pharmaceuticals

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Melinda Gates: This is not a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

.” Pharmaceutical companies are coming together already to say, “How do we build up the manufacturing capacity so it’s there when we get a vaccine and we can basically just run it through the manufacturing process?” So no, we’re still a long way from herd immunity.

Public Health

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

Of course not. health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. Simply put, is the equation, “Spend more, get less” a sustainable business model?

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Food-As-Medicine Grows Its Cred Across the Health/Care and Retail Ecosystem

Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

There’s a higher bar for so-called “health food,” along with expectations for personalization — begging the question, “What if… grocery stores offered personalized nutrition counseling? ” Of course with the promise of Food Rx comes a paradox — for example, that which this quote highlights.

Public Health

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. As we noted, this was due to such factors as higher-than-normal expenses for staff, supplies, and pharmaceuticals and lower revenues.

Public Health

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Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

There are, of course, other approaches available, such as direct primary care. The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services.

Primary Care

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

There are, of course, other approaches available, such as direct primary care. The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services.

Primary Care

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

There are, of course, other approaches available, such as direct primary care. The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services.

Primary Care

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

There are, of course, other approaches available, such as direct primary care. The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services.

Primary Care

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

There are, of course, other approaches available, such as direct primary care. The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services.

Primary Care

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

There are, of course, other approaches available, such as direct primary care. The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services.

Primary Care

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

There are, of course, other approaches available, such as direct primary care. The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services.

Primary Care

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy

Prescription Drug Prices On California Ballot

ACA Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

A bill in New Mexico would create a task force on pharmaceutical pricing, while a proposed law in Washington State would cap consumers’ out-of-pocket spending on prescription medications. Geoffrey Joyce , director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California.

Pharmaceuticals

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Health systems in 10 years: 20 predictions from top executives

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Of course, not all patients have a safe or stable home environment where they could receive care, so hospitals aren’t going away anytime soon. as well as purchasing pharmaceuticals. These realities will increase the role of primary care as the needed coordinator of health services for patients. David Rahija.

Primary Care

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Health Care and the Democratic Debates – Part 1 – Medicare For All, Rx Prices, Guns and Mental Health

Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, and Jose Diaz-Balart asked the ten candidates questions covering guns, butter (the economy), immigration, climate change, and of course, health care — what I’m focusing on in this post, the first of two-debate-days-in-a-row. health care outcomes was recently described by the CDC ].

Mental health

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Healthcare Is Local: Channeling Tip O’Neill in the 2018 Midterm Election Results

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Democrats have been committed to the concept of the government negotiating drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies the way other developed countries do. Expect strange bedfellow’ing between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President Trump, who has made Rx costs a top priority at least in his healthcare portfolio.

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Melinda Gates: This is not a once-in-a-century pandemic.

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Food-As-Medicine Grows Its Cred Across the Health/Care and Retail Ecosystem

A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

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