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

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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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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

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” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

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Additional trends to watch will be, Continued efforts to manage the total cost of care (that is, value-based care models) A COVID hangover, boosting provider unit cost increases and pharmacy trends Behavior health and mental health services growing, and, Health equity getting more attention and resources on both the public sector (e.g.,

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Like banks, healthcare will become digital-first in 2022, Zoom healthcare lead says

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He sees three major developments: healthcare will become a digital-first system; decentralization will become a major theme for health and life sciences organizations; and video will be part of every healthcare experience. You predict that decentralization will become a major theme for health and life science organizations.

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Enabling better health care, everywhere – my conversation with Microsoft

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We learned this lesson during the pandemic quite clearly — connectivity as a social determinant of health. In addition to my discussion with Molly, you should also listen to two insightful colleagues’ conversations in the series, with: Dr.

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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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Let’s now shift to the public health crisis in Americans’ mental health, which the pandemic certainly exacerbated. IQVIA’s national prescription data revealed that prescriptions for mental health drugs grew 8% since 2019 — with a 33% rise among girls under 19.

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How the Pandemic has Impacted the HealthTech Marketplace

Healthcare IT Today

Other investment areas cited by leading companies aimed at employee retention include flexible work arrangements, increasing PTO, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and the offering of wellness and mental health programs. About Tray Chamberlin.