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Healthcare & Life Science M&A Activity Plummets 1H’22

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Supply costs are often less significant in the cost structure of PPM companies, and campaigns run by large drug companies in an effort to increase market share for pharmaceuticals coming off patent expiration may generate additional opportunities for PPM companies to achieve higher margins on J-Code drug billing.

Life Sciences

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Growing DTC for Health Beyond the Rx – the New Health/Care at Home

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2023

Enter Atrium Health into this mix: the hospital system has had a successful entry into hospital-at-home care, and with Best Buy as partner, will grow the consumer-digital-health front-end capabilities through a trusted retail brand’s Geek Squad expertise. This is a major focus of my work these days in the U.S. and Europe.

Pharmaceuticals

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes.

Primary Care

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Getting Health Care at a Retail Pharmacy vs a Retail Store: Consumers May Be Favoring the Pharmacist Versus the Retailer

Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

Strikingly, the trust deficit with retail stores for medical care was substantial, with 80% of consumers telling Wolters Kluwer that they would “probably never” go to a department store for health care. In 5 years, 61% of U.S.

Primary Care

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to digital health’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity.

Pharmaceuticals

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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to the category’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity.

Pharmaceuticals

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic.

Primary Care

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Happy Amazon Prime Days, When You Can Get 25% Off a Year’s One Medical Membership

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.

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Primary Care Medicare Patient Experience

McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

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.

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals Prevention Medical Technology

The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

PwC identified the inflators and deflators on medical cost trend as, Inflators with inflation for hospitals and physicians due to workforce shortages and clinician burnout and the increasing cost of pharmaceuticals Deflators include the countervailing impact of biosimilars coming onto the market offsetting some of the prescription drug price growth, (..)

Ambulatory Care

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Can a Food-As-Medicine App Extend Chronic Health Management at the Grocery Store?

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.

Life Sciences

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care.

Healthcare

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Enabling better health care, everywhere – my conversation with Microsoft

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to brainstorm omnichannel health care for people to enable better health care for all, anywhere and everywhere, with Team Microsoft. ” Molly and I covered a lot of ground here , starting with the key forces shaping and accelerating virtual care across the continuum.

Life Sciences

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Healthy Living Trends Inspired by COVID-19: Retailers, Food, and Consumers’ Growing Self-Care Muscles

Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

“Self-care” took on new meaning and personal work-flows for people living in and through the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Nursing Hospitals Integration

Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

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.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Hospitals Doctors Prevention

COVID-19 Lessons: A Path to a Better Health Care System

Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

For this transition to succeed, stakeholders across the health care sector, including payers, the pharmaceutical industry, and medical device companies, must be willing and supportive partners.”. Continue to encourage the migration of care from the health care campus to the home. Today, health care is a team sport.

Primary Care

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

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. patients are increasingly accepting retail health sites for accessing and receiving care, found in this New England Journal of Medicine study.

Health Technology

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Our Homes as HealthQuarters – Finding Health and Well-Being at CES 2023

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.

Life Sciences

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Searching for Health/Care Touchpoints in the 2023 Axios Harris Poll 100

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2023

Amazon ranked #8 in the top 100, and I’ve carved out a singular N of 1 designation for the company as a “cross-segment” player across the health/care ecosystem. It’s important to call out CVS Health which ranked 19 (very good) in the 100 list, and Walgreens which fell a bit below CVS Health at #39. minus 76.9,

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Doctors

Searching for Health/Care Touchpoints in the 2023 Axios Harris Poll 100

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2023

Amazon ranked #8 in the top 100, and I’ve carved out a singular N of 1 designation for the company as a “cross-segment” player across the health/care ecosystem. It’s important to call out CVS Health which ranked 19 (very good) in the 100 list, and Walgreens which fell a bit below CVS Health at #39. minus 76.9,

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Doctors

Searching for Health/Care Touchpoints in the 2023 Axios Harris Poll 100

Health Populi

MAY 29, 2023

Amazon ranked #8 in the top 100, and I’ve carved out a singular N of 1 designation for the company as a “cross-segment” player across the health/care ecosystem. It’s important to call out CVS Health which ranked 19 (very good) in the 100 list, and Walgreens which fell a bit below CVS Health at #39. minus 76.9,

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Doctors

The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

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.

Medicaid

Medicaid Primary Care Medicare Integration

The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A fast-changing food-scape and grocery store profile in 2024 Consumers adopted grocery stores as health/care destinations in the COVID-19 pandemic, as grocers were essential retail sites for sourcing not only food but hygiene and home care products.

Medicare

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Healthcare & Life Science M&A Activity Plummets 1H’22

Growing DTC for Health Beyond the Rx – the New Health/Care at Home

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Getting Health Care at a Retail Pharmacy vs a Retail Store: Consumers May Be Favoring the Pharmacist Versus the Retailer

Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Happy Amazon Prime Days, When You Can Get 25% Off a Year’s One Medical Membership

McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Can a Food-As-Medicine App Extend Chronic Health Management at the Grocery Store?

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Enabling better health care, everywhere – my conversation with Microsoft

Healthy Living Trends Inspired by COVID-19: Retailers, Food, and Consumers’ Growing Self-Care Muscles

Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

COVID-19 Lessons: A Path to a Better Health Care System

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Our Homes as HealthQuarters – Finding Health and Well-Being at CES 2023

Searching for Health/Care Touchpoints in the 2023 Axios Harris Poll 100

Searching for Health/Care Touchpoints in the 2023 Axios Harris Poll 100

Searching for Health/Care Touchpoints in the 2023 Axios Harris Poll 100

The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

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