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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). In pharma and biotech, those “experts” would be scientists doing R&D and those folks who understand the data underneath the discoveries.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. Health insurance’s decline from 55% in 2017 to 46% in 2018, recovering in 2019 then falling again to a low of 43% this year in the 2021 Barometer.

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Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care

Health Populi

As my friends at #JPM this week are hearing in San Francisco, AI is part of virtually every biotech and med-tech story. The rest of the CES story for 2019 is positive, Shelly optimistically continued. The post Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Bonfire Analytics Raises Oversubscribed $2M Venture Round to Accelerate Digital Health, Medical Device, & Biotech Adoption Across Healthcare Providers

Healthcare IT Today

Already worth $350 billion in 2019, the industry is expected to continue increasing given our rapidly aging population and that national healthcare spend is almost 20% of the GDP , as well as the surge in new digital tools, devices, and therapeutics that can drive better patient outcomes.

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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical

Health Populi

The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer measured the biggest gap in trust for the healthcare industry between the U.S. In this study, the healthcare industry is comprised of five segments: hospitals and clinics; pharma; biotech (separate from pharma); consumer health (e.g., “informed public” and the mass population.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019. Take a look at the bar chart data from a RealClear Politics poll conducted in April-May 2019. Now check out the third chart, which is a summary of the Edelman Trust Barometer for 2019 noting Americans’ trust in various industries. health care.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case.

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