Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

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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Life Science Mental health Pharmaceuticals Medical Technology 317

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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The role of telehealth and remote patient monitoring in improving access to care. 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.

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Leadership healthcare technology Digital Health Mental health 55

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

For health care in 2030, I’ve thought about each driving force and then gotten more granular in the second column focusing a bit deeper on the factor and how it might play out in 2030.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Public Health 234

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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Sean Lynch, Vice President of Clinical Operations at Curebase A major reason why health disparities exist in clinical trials today can be attributed to the burden traditional trial models place on participating patients. These practitioners ensure that all patients, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive the care they need.

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Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience 128

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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Medicare Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Mobile Health 204

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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Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Medicare 194

mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The conference will highlight the potential of delivering high quality and easily accessible, personalised healthcare in North East London, including clinical and public health services and the NHS 10-year plan. Mobile Health: enabler of empowered patients David Doherty, Co-founder and Director, 3G Doctor.

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Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Public Health Health Policy 28

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.

Mental health 177

Mental health Nursing Telehealth Primary Care 177

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.

Digital Health 52

Digital Health Leadership Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 52

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

as well as purchasing pharmaceuticals. To mitigate the rising costs of care, healthcare systems and providers will begin to rely even more heavily on artificial intelligence and smart devices. These realities will increase the role of primary care as the needed coordinator of health services for patients.

Primary Care 41

Primary Care Nursing Patient Experience Medicare 41

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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Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health 406

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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Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience 216

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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Life Science mHealth Primary Care Pharmaceuticals 280

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In healthcare, patients and health consumers are looking for more convenient, accessible, less-costly health care services in light of their growing health economic awareness. As health consumers, U.S.

Health Technology 156

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. As we noted, this was due to such factors as higher-than-normal expenses for staff, supplies, and pharmaceuticals and lower revenues.

Public Health 41

Public Health Digital Health Primary Care Telehealth 41

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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Mental health Digital Health Medicare Health Policy 296

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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Medicare Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Patient Experience 153

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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Life Science Medical Billing Health Data Primary Care 194

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The post Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. In a week such as that we are living through in the U.S., one yearns for the days of the kind of bipartisanship the BPC report embodies, invoking the energies of Daschle, Mitchell, Baker and Dole.

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Health Policy Medicare Primary Care Medical Billing 199

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.

Medical Billing 315

Medical Billing Medicare Pharmaceuticals Mental health 315

Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2022

By race/ethnicity, marginally more Black and Hispanic adults are health care cost-concerned than Whites: 44% of Black adults, 42% of Hispanic adults, and 38% of White adults.

Primary Care 156

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2025

” Data point two: patient access to health care services can be fragmented and inconsistent depending on several factors — especially having health insurance, having a usual source for primary care, and living in a community with retail pharmacies (versus a neighborhood considered a pharmacy desert). .”

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Life Science Public Health Primary Care Pharmaceuticals 177

Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

Klobuchar argued for a public option which was baked into the original Affordable Care Act. She is concerned about “kicking half of America off of health insurance in 4 years,” pivoting to the “much bigger issue” of pharmaceuticals pricing. health care outcomes was recently described by the CDC ].

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Mental health Medicare Pharmaceuticals Public Health 215

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Democrats have been committed to the concept of the government negotiating drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies the way other developed countries do. Expect strange bedfellow’ing between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President Trump, who has made Rx costs a top priority at least in his healthcare portfolio.

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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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Pharmaceuticals Public Health Primary Care Patient Experience 177

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Primary care must be available to all, noting that his father who was recently quite ill was financially saved by Medicare coverage. Biden, too, told his personal story of family health trauma and financial coverage with health insurance. Even countries like the U.K. and Canada have some private insurance.

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Medicare Public Health Mental health Primary Care 185