Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. My read of it is that most of these risks have to do with what I’ve been referring to as the Human OS, the Human Operating System, in my talks and teachings.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

The West Health-Gallup study paints a portrait of Americans stressed due to medical costs, even at the highest levels of income. This study looked at Americans’ views on both health care services and prescription drugs. It is important to note that the pharmaceutical industry has gotten so much of the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

To innovate more, and more quickly, across the entire ecosystem of health — in government policies, pharmaceutical innovations, and technology developments. To scale what works, based on evidence and proven interventions — which depends on our reducing biases in our assumptions, models and strategies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization announced that the coronavirus was deemed a pandemic. ” Five years later, Edelman has fielded a survey to determine what some 4,000 health citizens living in 4 countries (Brazil, India, the UK, and the U.S.) have rung the alarm bell loud and clear.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. Over one-half of Americans blame pharmaceutical companies as most responsible for the opioid crisis, followed by physicians, whom 39% of health consumers blame, and patients, whom 38% of people blame. Exacerbating U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

Capgemini offers recommendations to providers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers to tap opportunities outside of inpatient settings and, increasingly, to the home and digital device. These trends point to more care being demanded by patients outside of the legacy care system, at home and via more virtual platforms.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

had the highest pharmaceutical spending per capita of $1,443 versus $749 for the other nations, roughly double. varied, with that 10% of health citizens lacking coverage for basic health care. Some of the key findings on America’s higher costs/poorer outcomes are that: The U.S. Access and quality of care in the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery. Health Policy: The impact of healthcare policy on patient outcomes and access to care. Climate Change and Health: Examining the health implications of climate change and strategies for sustainable healthcare practices.

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

platforming telehealth with weight loss and the fast-growing medicine category — such as Eli Lilly Direct, the pharmaceutical company planning to go direct-to-consumer to channel patients’ access to and use of Zepbound for weight loss (partnering with Amazon’s pharmacy for delivery).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed major weaknesses in the U.S.

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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. As of March 2018, there were over 3 million data points on over 600,000 drug ratings in the SERMO database, which the company terms “the FICO score for drugs.”

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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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Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2018

This piece, written by Emily Kopp, Sydney Lupkin, and Elizabeth Lucas, originally appeared on Kaiser Health News , which authorized the republication. The first-of-its-kind database, compiled by Kaiser Health News, tallies the money from Big Pharma to patient groups. The database identifies over 1,200 patient groups.

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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

JUNE 7, 2018

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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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mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Topics/Speakers will include: Introduction & Background Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL. Community Pharmacy in Primary Care Mr Steve Brine, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Primary Care and Public Health at UK Dept of Health & MP for Winchester (invited).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

In America, earning lower or middle incomes is a risk factor for having trouble accessing health care and/or paying for it.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

are self-rationing care in the era of COVID-19 by cutting spending on health care visits and prescription drugs. Patients in the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Data buyers range from health policy researchers to pharmaceutical companies and marketing corporations. A NEW MODEL FOR DATA SHARING An overwhelming majority of patients are willing to share their medical data with patients, doctors, researchers and even pharmaceutical companies.

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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

MARCH 22, 2022

The financial toxicity of health care costs in the U.S. takes center stage in Health Populi this week as several events converge to highlight medical debt as a unique feature in American health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. American saw the greatest number of deaths from suicide and alcohol- and drug-induced fatalities was recorded in 2016.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. Reviewing the annual 2023 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science discussing The Use of Medicines in the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

My cousin Arlene got married in Detroit at the classic Book Cadillac Hotel on July 23, 1967, a Sunday afternoon wedding. When Daddy drove us back out to our suburban home about 30 minutes from the fancy hotel, the car radio was tuned to WWJ Newsradio 950, all news all the time.

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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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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

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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. Dr. Jain contributes healthcare delivery reform insight.

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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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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

The trend has implications for employers, payers, providers and even pharmaceutical and life science companies. Payers and employers are aiming to grow the role of telemedicine as employees grow more comfortable with it, especially if out-of-pocket costs are lower and the quality doesn’t suffer. WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

More savings would accrue through the quicker adoption of value-based payment models, the authors assert, where clinicians take on financial risk for managing population health. Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research.

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