Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Addressing mental health is, truly, embodied in every one of the ten pillars in Manatt’s imperatives: Ensuring access to both physical/medical care as well as mental health — ideally bundled into primary care.

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Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 26, 2020

(WASHINGTON, DC) March 25, 2020 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative released a statement from executive director Morgan Reed regarding the congressional passage of the latest Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The most economically and medically vulnerable are particularly harmed.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Amazon’s One Medical offer is part of the growing retail health on-ramps for health consumers who want to access new models and digital front doors to health care. In this case, it’s about virtual primary care that’s convenient and relatively inexpensive.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

The proliferation and evolution of digital technologies in health care have the potential to do good or harm, depending on their application. “Do no harm” has been the professional and ethical mantra of physicians since the Hippocratic Oath was first uttered by medical students.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 30, 2019

The startup uses Google Home, Amazon Echo and other smart speakers to engage patients and the elderly and connect them with their caregivers. Last summer, Best Buy put down $800 million in cash to acquire GreatCall, a mobile device that connects health and emergency response services to older people and their caregivers.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

key detractors from good performance on these measures include: Lack of universal access to care for all Americans (the Fund points out that 30 mm people in the U.S. Less adequate primary care “backbone” with large gaps in PCP coverage throughout the United States. bn for on-demand care by July 1st, 2021.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

And PLM did business deals with large pharmaceutical companies who wanted the data to advance their research and development efforts – that’s how the PLM business was primarily funded. Patients knew this – PLM was emphatic about transparency in its community and the company never hid what they were doing with people’s data.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This only accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic, and this time around, bolstered by digital health tools and access to broadband unavailable 14 years ago. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports. As health consumers, U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

Foogal, a recipe app designed to support patients’ healthy cooking and eating, launched on 24th March. In its initial version, Foogal addresses several specific diet paradigms: for patients demanding a wellness protocol, an autoimmune protocol, or wanting to address insulin resistance.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

You might not think about pharmaceutical companies showing off technology at the “Consumer” Electronics Show, but the pharma industry has had a growing presence at CES for the past few years. Last year, Abbott made a big splash with the company’s Board Chairman/CEO delivering a keynote addressing connected care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In early December, FarmBoxRx was the first online grocer to be approved to channel food to SNAP/EBT recipients as payment from Medicare and Medicaid.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Campbell County Health is a health system with 1,244 employees across its 90-bed acute care hospital, 160-bed skilled nursing facility, inpatient behavioral health unit, ASC, and 14 outpatient primary care and specialty clinics. Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). Lenovo (Morrisville, N.C.).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

On the prescription drug front, Eli Lilly pioneering a DTC channel for consumers to access their product, Zepbound, directly from the manufacturer a novel approach for a pharmaceutical company to implement via their LillyDirect platform. The greatest health-trust equity among U.S. health/care consumers in 2025.knowing

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

During the hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) challenged Azar, “As a pharmaceutical executive, you raised drug prices year after year. Note that Azar was once President of Eli Lilly, among the world’s largest pharma companies and marketer of products that treat diabetes, among other conditions.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The new year will see a “looming tsunami” of high prices in healthcare, regulation trumping health reform, more business deals reshaping the health/care industry landscape, and patients growing do-it-yourself care muscles, according to Top health industry issues of 2020: Will digital start to show an ROI from the PwC Health Research Institute. (..)

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

Uncertainties and grey areas prevail, with very shaky financial markets domestically and globally — all impacting various segments of health care systems — from hospitals and health plans to pharmaceuticals and medical devices, clinical labor markets and researchers (namely – might the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

At the same time, and related to the hims & hers scenario discussed above, Kennedy has been vocal about his dislike of DTC ads for pharmaceuticals.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs. This list, and other names we’ll see creating on-ramps to primary care and self-care to the consumer, will expand in 2019.

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