What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?
The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics. They comprise only 3% of all U.S. healthcare spending....
View ArticleThe Old Gays Working with Walgreens on TikTok: Breaking Down Stereotypes and...
How much do I love this media campaign from Walgreens, collaborating with the foursome The Old Gays who have a growing multi-million person fan base on TikTok? How much? A whole lot! Kudos to Walgreens...
View ArticleThe Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2...
Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news,...
View ArticleHealth in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections – Women, Prescription Drugs, and...
On Tuesday November 8, 2022, health and medical issues will be on many U.S. voters’ minds as they enter voting booths to select representatives for the House and the Senate, along with some states’...
View ArticleDon’t Mess with Medicare and Medicaid, Washington: They Remain Popular with...
A majority of the U.S. public does not want politicians to “up-end” government-funded health programs, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s March 2023 Health Tracking Poll. Social...
View Article“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say
“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Software Advice wondered. “Yes,” the company’s latest consumer survey found, details of which are discussed in a report published on their...
View ArticleInflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections
The cost of living ranks top in U.S. voters’ minds among many issues Americans are feeling and following in late 2023. A close second in line is affordability of health care, as consumers’ household...
View ArticleFrom Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans...
As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. is getting fuzzier by the day. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves...
View ArticleHospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health
With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model,...
View ArticleThe Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far
On February 22, 2024, I went to a CVS Pharmacy-Inside-Target in my community to fill a prescription for benzonatate 200 mg capsules. I had caught a bad case of the flu the week before, and subsequently...
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