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How Retailers Are the New Public Health Purveyors

Health Populi

In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health. That was a watershed moment in U.S.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

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. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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The End of the Public Health Emergency: Top Concerns  

Electronic Health Reporter

By Ken Perez, marketing and strategy advisor to Vindeca Health and former vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell. 30, the Biden administration notified Congress that it plans to let the […] The article The End of the Public Health Emergency: Top Concerns appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Why patient burnout is a 'silent public health crisis'

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS23, panelists discuss how providers can boost transparency and patient trust in the healthcare system.

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A CHRO’s Perspective on Substance Use in the Workplace: Supportive Strategies to Help Your Workforce Thrive

Speaker: Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, Medical Director, Psychiatry and Naj Wright, MBA, C-Suite HR Executive

A 2021 New York University School of Global Public Health survey of 5,850 people who drink alcohol found that 29 percent have increased their drinking during the pandemic. The last year and a half has been one of extreme stress and anxiety for the American Workforce.

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Clinisys Acquires Promium to Further Grow Scientific, Environmental and Public Health Diagnostics Capabilities

Healthcare IT Today

Promium shares our deep belief that the future of improved public health is ensuring the highest safety in the food that we eat, water we drink, and in the environments which we live,” said Michael Simpson, CEO at Clinisys. Promium is a great fit with Clinisys.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.