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.” This is akin to our pointing out over the past years that every company is a health company. This graphic illustrates that about one-half of companies listed on the S&P have a direct impact on people’s health: think pharma, life sciences, medicaltechnology, health insurance, food, and transportation.
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.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primarycare, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.
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