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Mashup Score: 0To Avert a GLP-1 Cost Tsunami, Add Lifestyle Interventions: Learning from Virta Health - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
With consumer and prescriber interest in GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs “soaring,” health plan managers have a new source of financial stress and clinical questions on their to-do list. A team of Virta Health leaders held a webinar on 13th July 2023 to explain the results of a study the company just completed assessing health plan execs’ current views on Ozempic and other GLP-1 medicines with a…
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Mashup Score: 2Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA). Most patients have experienced at least one health insurance related barrier in the past two years, and 4 in 10 of those people…
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Mashup Score: 0Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA). Most patients have experienced at least one health insurance related barrier in the past two years, and 4 in 10 of those people…
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Mashup Score: 3There's a New "O" in Medicine-Town - Welcome OPill to the Front of the Counter - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
You may not be able to get that ear-worm jingle that goes “O O O Ozempic” out of your musical mind, but I’m happy to tell you there’s a new “O” in town: the Opill. Welcome to the first OTC contraceptive for sale in the USA. I wrote about Perrigo’s Opill here in Health Populi in May 2023 as a “signpost on the road to retail health.” It’s official: “The U.S. Food and Drug…
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Mashup Score: 0Happy Amazon Prime Days, When You Can Get 25% Off a Year's One Medical Membership - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
Now in Aisle E(commerce) – get your one-year membership to One Medical for $149. Today and tomorrow are Amazon Prime Days, 2023 style, when you can fetch bargains on lots of electronics (esp. deeply-discounted Amazon-branded devices), sporting goods, kitchen gear, pet supplies, and even groceries (saving with Amazon Fresh getting $20 off $100+ orders on Prime Day). And among…
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Happy #AmazonPrimeDay when you can buy 1-year membership to @onemedical discounted to $144 (that’s $12 a month for #telehealth #digitalfrontdoor https://t.co/qNVo55PBic @amazon #PrimeDay2023 today and tomorrow features lots of #health and #wellbeing stuff on sale inc @Peloton https://t.co/21AZy1ovlh
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Mashup Score: 0Can Artists Help to Remake Medicine? A New Book Asks and Answers (Yes!) - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
What if we asked an artist to re-imagine what health care could be? How might Van Gogh redesign a patient room akin to his room at Arles, or Michelangelo re-think general surgery? How might Thoreau take us on a nature walk for our mental health, or Basquiat channel his inner Da Vinci for a version of Jean-Michel’s Anatomy? In her new book, Artists Remaking Medicine. Emily Peters confronts health…
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Mashup Score: 2Location, Location, Location - Understanding Health Consumers' Evolving Definition of Convenience - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
The definition of “convenience” in the eyes of patients, consumers, and caregivers is multi-faceted, with the concept of “location” shifting both physically and digitally. We learn this in new research from JLL, the global real estate services company. “Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care?” you might ask. See my Hot Points below, discussing my…
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The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 75 today. The NHS was the brainchild of Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan; he wrote in a statement to doctors and nurses in The Lancet on July 3, 1948, “My job is to give you all the facilities, resources, apparatus and help I can, and then to leave you alone as professional men and women to use your skill and judgement without hindrance.”…
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Mashup Score: 3The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What's Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024. Every year, the PwC HRI team goes behind those numbers to assess cost inflators and deflators which underpin annual medical inflation. As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of…
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Mashup Score: 1Technologies That Bolster Health Will Be Baked Into the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Listening to the World Economic Forum - HealthPopuli.com - 11 month(s) ago
The technologies that will drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution have health baked into most of them, based on the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023, a flagship report from the World Economic Forum, Two of the ten technologies making up this forecast directly speak to health and health care” AI-facilitated healthcare, and The metaverse for mental health. But seven of the…
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To avert a #GLP1 cost tsunami, add in #lifestyle behavior change @virtahealth asked 80 #healthinsurance leaders abt concerns re #Ozempic & new meds for #diabetes & #obesity #healthplans could incur $72 mm >costs per 100K covered lives https://t.co/eunlLRHcOh #foodasmedicine https://t.co/kzTBW2PtJd