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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

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We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes.

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Dollar General & CHPA Collaborate to Bolster Health Consumers’ Literacy and Access for OTC Pain Meds and Self-Care

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It’s important to note that central to the CHPA Educational Foundation’s mission is serving people with lower health literacy as well as reaching consumers living in underserved communities or “health deserts,” geographies lacking health care services – in particular, primary care.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

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That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to digital health’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity.

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

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Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

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These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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The Racial Divide Due to COVID-19 Also Applies to Healthcare and Pharma Costs

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health care system, from public health gaps to the racial gaps of health disparities between people of color dying at a much greater rate than white people in America. The pandemic has revealed many cracks in the U.S. In the longer term, assuring all U.S.

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Enabling better health care, everywhere – my conversation with Microsoft

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.” Molly and I covered a lot of ground here , starting with the key forces shaping and accelerating virtual care across the continuum.