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Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Healthcare IT Today

Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board. Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership.

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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Populi

As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage. Note the new alliance between Walmart and Anthem to channel OTC meds to Medicare Advantage members).

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Talking “HealthConsuming” on the MM&M Podcast

Health Populi

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.”.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative.

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Health systems in 10 years: 20 predictions from top executives

Henry Kotula

Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.): Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations. as well as purchasing pharmaceuticals.

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CVS + Aetna: Inflection Point in US Healthcare, Merger Approved Update

Health Populi

Since the CVS+Aetna announcement last December, the Kaiser Family Foundation ran some numbers on how the merged organization could impact Medicare — a key payor for both health insurance and prescription drugs under Part D.

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Support for Drug Price Negotiation Brings Partisans Together in the U.S.

Health Populi

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. This patient experience crosses political parties in the U.S.,

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