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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019

Health Populi

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The pilot brings together grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty, testing out first in 13 stores in Northern Kentucky. — to grow their own consumer-facing muscles in 2019.

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

Health Populi

The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Consider the following market developments and collaborations that are addressing health access, bolstering value-based models, streamlining and re-imagining service delivery. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022. These trends began to take hold in the U.S. Expanding value-based care, nationally.

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Burn Care for Underserved Communities: A Certified Burn Nurse’s Perspective

Minority Nurse

As burn injuries are often associated with several social determinants of health, including poverty (Patel, 2018), food insecurity (Elsey, 2016), and living in under-resourced neighborhoods (Alnabantah, 2016), burn nurses play a crucial role in caring for some of the patients most in need of care. 2018 Apr;202:38-42. Epub 2018 Feb 23.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018. Lower health care costs, through reducing hospital readmission rates and reducing duplicate testing, and. Fast forward nine years later. trillion, over 18% of U.S.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

I wasn’t surprised that Maneesh was revealing this private message with me, because he is very transparent via social networks on his personal tests and hacks with wearables and apps. He wears many devices at once, putting the techs to his tests, and figuring out just what works well, and for whom.

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Americans Growing Health Consumer Muscles and Knowledge: McKinsey

Health Populi

Most Americans are healthcare cost-conscious, concerned about various kinds of healthcare expenses, data from McKinsey’s research has found presented in Healthcare consumerism 2018: An update on the journey. The bottom line of the report is that, “collaboration with consumer is crucial for controlling healthcare spending.”