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The Biggest Opportunity for Sporting Goods is Consumers’ Physical Inactivity: Learning from McKinsey (with a personal nod to pickleball)

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This is 5 percentage points greater than in 2010, and expected to reach 35% by 2030. Here’s a snippet from the report on physical activity, noting that one-third of adults on the planet are considered inactive. McKinsey calculates this as an untapped market opportunity of 1.8

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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

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Even nurses’ quality reputation fell a bit, 6 percentage points, from 2010, from 88% to 82% of consumers ranking nurses as excellent/good providers. The second chart arrays the historical trend downward for all healthcare players (except walk-in/urgent care clinics) looking back to 2003 to 2023.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

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The NIH crafted one for patients enrolled in clinical trials, the American Hospital Association served one up in 1973, and many individual health providers like the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ( aka Penn Medicine) have developed patient bills of rights for consumers entering their hospital systems.

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

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And loneliness can kill us, we learned, from the study Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review , seminal research published in 2010 led by Julianne Holt-Lunstad and collaborators from Brigham Young University and University of North Carolina.

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Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials

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in 2010 to 11.4% Evinova’s products, including AI and machine learning algorithms, reduce the time and cost of developing medicines, enhance patient experiences, and support digital remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics. In a recent review paper appeared on Nature , Mittermaier et al.

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How Healthcare and Patients Can Benefit From a “Simplicity Premium”

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We start this simplicity journey in 2010 here, with the launch of the iPad, Instagram and Uber, moving to Airbnb disrupting hotels and hospitality, Zoom launching after Lyft, and so on. By 2020, the pandemic-disruption was the opportunity for 3 in 4 U.S.

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Medical Debt: “The Debt of Necessity” – A Current U.S. Picture from the CFPB

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For some context, it’s useful to know that the CFPB was created as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in July 2010 in the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis in the U.S.