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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

This capability is attracting pharmaceutical and life science companies, health care providers and research organizations to take a closer look at Seqster’s offering. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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

Health Populi

To innovate more, and more quickly, across the entire ecosystem of health — in government policies, pharmaceutical innovations, and technology developments. ” This is akin to our pointing out over the past years that every company is a health company.

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Health Populi

The economic and healthcare system impacts of this were explored in the Post-Covid Healthcare Landscape , delivered by Fitch Solutions’ Jamie Davies and Beau Noafshar, leaders in the Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Medical Devices groups.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. Over one-half of Americans blame pharmaceutical companies as most responsible for the opioid crisis, followed by physicians, whom 39% of health consumers blame, and patients, whom 38% of people blame. Exacerbating U.S.

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Can a Food-As-Medicine App Extend Chronic Health Management at the Grocery Store?

Health Populi

For many years, I’ve advocated for siloes to break down so that these organizations, all of which have mission statements that speak to benefit patient care and health outcomes, to more effective reach those Holy Grails.

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Medical costs projected to increase 6% by 2020, says PwC

Henry Kotula

The trend has implications for employers, payers, providers and even pharmaceutical and life science companies. Payers and employers are aiming to grow the role of telemedicine as employees grow more comfortable with it, especially if out-of-pocket costs are lower and the quality doesn’t suffer.