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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

Health Populi

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

HIT Consultant

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. from $34.61 in CY 2023.

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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better

HIT Consultant

Digital health options like telemedicine and online pharmacies existed before the pandemic. Telemedicine and online pharma have their merits. Quality and consistency of care are just as important. Rather than set up another telemedicine visit, they are more likely to skip treatment altogether. We weren’t prepared.

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How COVID-19 Has Re-Shaped Health Care Delivery So Far

Health Populi

That decline in face-to-face physician visits was supplanted, in part, by hockey-stick growth for telemedicine visits. In the week of April 3, telemedicine visits with physicians comprised 1 in 4 interactions. For more on the telemedicine moment in the C19 era, read this analysis].

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

Health Populi

.” Now ad in prescription drugs which is the mature category of DTC in healthcare — a unique aspect of American medicine as the only country in the world, except for New Zealand, which permits direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. This is a major focus of my work these days in the U.S. and Europe.

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The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

Health Populi

Still, more provider executives are more open to providing certain types of care via telehealth –namely mental health (especially useful for younger health citizens during the pandemic), OB/GYN, and primary care such as family medicine and pediatrics. PwC’s HRI team polled 10,003 U.S.

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Roundups: 16 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

HIT Consultant

Walgreens and Pearl Health , a provider enablement company has announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the expansion of value-based care in collaboration with community-based primary care physicians.