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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

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Reviewing the annual 2023 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science discussing The Use of Medicines in the U.S. It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. It uses data collected from patients as well as ZIP code or census block data on populations.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

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If you were involved with writing a business plan from the earliest days of digital health (in the so-called “Health 1.0 or Health 2.0” The post Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Takes Social Determinants of Health to New Heights

Healthcare IT Today

A recent offering from LexisNexis Risk Solutions promises to greatly expand access to this data, called social determinants of health (SDoH), for payers, clinicians, public health agencies, pharma companies, and other researchers. Data collection is undergoing more and more scrutiny by the press and legislators.

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The Tik Tok’ing of Medical Mis-Information: Doctors’ and Patients’ Roles in Curating Healthy Advice

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believe that the medical mis-information problem is worsening, learned in survey research from Merck Manuals. The consumer survey of 2,044 U.S. The doctor survey was conducted of 263 physicians by Merck Manuals at the Family Medical Experience conference. ” In the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

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In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S.,

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

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At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. As the report concludes, “people’s sentiments and behaviors” with respect to technology in health care “provide no clear answer.”