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. These trends point to more care being demanded by patients outside of the legacy care system, at home and via more virtual platforms.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

To innovate more, and more quickly, across the entire ecosystem of health — in government policies, pharmaceutical innovations, and technology developments. To scale what works, based on evidence and proven interventions — which depends on our reducing biases in our assumptions, models and strategies.

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mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Topics/Speakers will include: Introduction & Background Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL. Community Pharmacy in Primary Care Mr Steve Brine, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Primary Care and Public Health at UK Dept of Health & MP for Winchester (invited).

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

The West Health-Gallup study paints a portrait of Americans stressed due to medical costs, even at the highest levels of income. This study looked at Americans’ views on both health care services and prescription drugs. It is important to note that the pharmaceutical industry has gotten so much of the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

had the highest pharmaceutical spending per capita of $1,443 versus $749 for the other nations, roughly double. varied, with that 10% of health citizens lacking coverage for basic health care. Some of the key findings on America’s higher costs/poorer outcomes are that: The U.S. Access and quality of care in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

” These ratings cover over 2,100 pharmaceutical brands for which over 40,000 having submitted opinions. As of March 2018, there were over 3 million data points on over 600,000 drug ratings in the SERMO database, which the company terms “the FICO score for drugs.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Pharmaceutical companies will be collaborating extensively for manufacturing, supply chain requirements, post surveillance studies as well as storage. Reforms in national health policies and budget constraints will increase the appeal and appetite towards Opex business models.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

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

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

Foogal, a recipe app designed to support patients’ healthy cooking and eating, launched on 24th March. In its initial version, Foogal addresses several specific diet paradigms: for patients demanding a wellness protocol, an autoimmune protocol, or wanting to address insulin resistance.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2023

I wrote about Perrigo’s Opill here in Health Populi in May 2023 as a “signpost on the road to retail health.” You may not be able to get that ear-worm jingle that goes “O O O Ozempic” out of your musical mind, but I’m happy to tell you there’s a new “O” in town: the Opill.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed major weaknesses in the U.S.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 21, 2015

It’s reliably reported that Syria’s once-reliable health care delivery apparatus quickly disintegrated into a state of chaos soon after hostilities began between the Assad regime in power, moderate rebels, and the terror group known as ISIS. The assault on health care delivery comes from multiple directions in conflict zones.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

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. Reviewing the annual 2023 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science discussing The Use of Medicines in the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

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. WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What is a “pharmacy” these days? You might have recently walked into a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy. Or, you might have refilled a prescription to help you manage a chronic condition, online.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

The financial toxicity of health care costs in the U.S. takes center stage in Health Populi this week as several events converge to highlight medical debt as a unique feature in American health care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

More savings would accrue through the quicker adoption of value-based payment models, the authors assert, where clinicians take on financial risk for managing population health. Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

are self-rationing care in the era of COVID-19 by cutting spending on health care visits and prescription drugs. Patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

In America, earning lower or middle incomes is a risk factor for having trouble accessing health care and/or paying for it.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Patients are the new healthcare payors, and as such, taking on the role of health consumers. In fact, health and wellness consumers have existed since a person purchased the first toothpaste, aspirin, heating pad, and moisturizing cream at retail.

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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.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

My cousin Arlene got married in Detroit at the classic Book Cadillac Hotel on July 23, 1967, a Sunday afternoon wedding. When Daddy drove us back out to our suburban home about 30 minutes from the fancy hotel, the car radio was tuned to WWJ Newsradio 950, all news all the time.

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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.”.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. American saw the greatest number of deaths from suicide and alcohol- and drug-induced fatalities was recorded in 2016.

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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.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2018

This piece, written by Emily Kopp, Sydney Lupkin, and Elizabeth Lucas, originally appeared on Kaiser Health News , which authorized the republication. The first-of-its-kind database, compiled by Kaiser Health News, tallies the money from Big Pharma to patient groups. The database identifies over 1,200 patient groups.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

The U.S. (..)

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Health Populi

APRIL 20, 2023

The Research Advisory Group for the program embodies comprehensive expert backgrounds including one of my favorite health economists, Kevin Volpp from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, along with Dr. Mark McClellan from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and former FDA Commissioner, Cheryl Anderson who is a leader in longevity (..)

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Data buyers range from health policy researchers to pharmaceutical companies and marketing corporations. A NEW MODEL FOR DATA SHARING An overwhelming majority of patients are willing to share their medical data with patients, doctors, researchers and even pharmaceutical companies.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 23, 2020

What are the implications for pharma as COVID-19 forces fundamental change in US payer practice and policy? The COVID-19 pandemic has created a unique set of challenges for US payers.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

The infection rate is once again trending up, presumably due to a combination of factors including a dramatic reduction in demand for new vaccinations, the rapid spread of the more infectious Delta variant in the U.S., as well as the reduction in mitigation measures.” ” .

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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?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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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.

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