Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These have been concerns raised about the health equity impacts of GLP-1s in the U.S., discussed recently: In Circulation in July 2024 In Lancet in June 2024 In Pharmaceutical Executive in March 2024 I n this essay on the Omada Health portal , and, In the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll conducted in May 2024.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

” These ratings cover over 2,100 pharmaceutical brands for which over 40,000 having submitted opinions. 80% trust recommendations of doctors with real world experience with a drug, and. 84% believe Drug Ratings will lead to better patient outcomes.

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Patients are the new healthcare payors, and as such, taking on the role of health consumers. In fact, health and wellness consumers have existed since a person purchased the first toothpaste, aspirin, heating pad, and moisturizing cream at retail.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What is a “pharmacy” these days? You might have recently walked into a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy. Or, you might have refilled a prescription to help you manage a chronic condition, online.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Lululemon has published the 2024 Global Well-Being Report , a study into peoples’ perspectives on their personal health from the company best known for athleisure wear and self-care. This year’s report is titled, The Pressure to Be Well. That pressure is coming from peoples’ experiencing “well-being burnout.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board. Dr. Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.): Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations. as well as purchasing pharmaceuticals.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

PLM shared data with academic researchers to allow scientific advancement to flourish in partnership with patients, who could suggest research questions based on their own experiences. 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

AUGUST 7, 2023

Consider this ecosystem diagram from the World Heart Federation, roadmap for digital health in cardiology. It’s a circular, iterative process of empowering patients and providers, improving long-term patient outcomes and patient experience, promoting universal health services coverage, and ultimately reducing health care costs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patients’ experiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While not every aspect of medical care is shoppable, many factors are research-able and in doing so, bolsters a persons health literacy and empowerment. On the retail health DTC front, Hims & Hers launched a GLP-1 strategy going directly-to-consumers for compounded medicines during the drug shortage for GLP-1s.At

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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, 2019

That would be profits made by pharmaceutical companies, cited by 80% of respondents. Ironic that in this Congressional session, pharmaceutical manufacturers are testifying about the life-saving benefits of their products, but priced to drive about one-third of Americans not to adopt them. consumers were asked.

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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

JUNE 28, 2018

for a single Tylenol tablet given to an inpatient) and those for patients wanting to cure Hepatitis C, like the $1,000 single pill of Harvoni. . EpiPen pricing mainstreamed the issue of pharmaceutical costs as a democratized (small “d”) issue in 2016, when Mylan grew the cost of a two-pack to about $600.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. This patient experience crosses political parties in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 26, 2024

.” That’s the headline in a WBUR story last week detailing the efforts of health care professionals in “amplifying” their patients’ voices inside and outside of the hospital walls by advocating for their health citizenship — through voter registration and public health policy advocacy.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

But health consumers in America certainly understand their personal and household financial exposure to health care in 2020. And that is health citizenship-bonding patient experience. In conclusion, let me leave you with this new poll from NORC on the growing phenomenon of crowd-funding health care costs.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For health care, there are many uncertainties as we reflect, one week after the 2024 U.S. elections, on probably policy and market impacts that we can expect in 2025 and beyond. In today’s Health Populi post, I’ll reflect on the first of several certainties we-know-we-know about U.S.

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