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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

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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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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019

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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

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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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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

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As the subtitle of the paper suggests, Apple is playing a role to support personal health, research, and medical care across the entire consumer/patient journey: from wellness and fitness (think: hand-washing and Nike Run Club) to managing chronic conditions and enabling clinician research and collaborations across industry silos.

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Americans Growing Health Consumer Muscles and Knowledge: McKinsey

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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.”

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Think Like a LEGO Builder in Healthcare – Considering PwC’s New Health Economy Vision

Health Populi

Health Forum, held at the Lansdowne Resort on 7-8 May 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Speaking in tongues will require collaboration across the three dimensions that Jeff identified — healthcare expertise, technology savvy, and media chops.