As children, we remember hearing that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” While this Welsh proverb may not be based on scientific evidence, it was meant to remind us to do what we can to remain healthy. In today’s MACRA physician payment model, it’s closer to the truth than ever before as clinicians
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The most effective accountable care organizations, or ACOs, in 2019 are leaders in innovation and communication. They are assuming downside risk, and the model is paying off in better care for lower cost for some of our most vulnerable patient populations. Sure. I’ll take two? What are ACOs and where did they come from? ACOs
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Health care spending in the United States is increasing faster than the gross domestic product. This trend is obviously neither preferable nor sustainable. And all players are on board for solutions. All players also want a system in which consumers receive the best available options for care, one that prioritizes growth and innovation. Founded in
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The life science industry is on a never-ending quest to engage the right stakeholder network. While most healthcare executives already realize the need for identifying and mapping clinical key opinion leaders (KOLs), many are missing the fact that this is only a small piece of the integrated network that is critical to engage. In fact,
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The world is becoming more connected and consumers now have virtually limitless access to medical information. Social platforms have opened up a form of peer to peer communication that until relatively recently, was reserved only for health care professionals. The empowered patient provides a unique opportunity for forward thinking life science companies. Patients are now
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It’s “high” time pharma executives embrace the promise of legal cannabis products. They hold much promise, therapeutically and economically. Failure to do so can lead to profits and industry jobs going up in smoke. Cannabis products or marijuana (recreational or medical) sales are legal only in particular U.S. states, not nationally. Nonetheless, about 85% of Americans support
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A revolution is afoot and the disrupting waves are influencing all sectors. The mystery is how all of this will play out on the national stage.  A recent survey by Reuters shows that close to 70% of Americans are in favor of the single-payer health care compared to the current system. Per Bernie Sanders, US
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Just last week, the Trump administration delivered some surprising news. One of their flagship promises, to remove drug rebates related to Medicare and Medicaid, was being shelved. An array of reasons cited ranged from risk of higher insurance premiums to a potential upheaval of the entire system. This is all part of the continuing debate
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Nothing is more exciting in medicine today than cell and gene therapy (CGT). Not that long ago, it was considered science fiction that a patient’s own cells could actually be modified to fight disease. This is now possible and destined to radically alter a disease course. Being such a new therapy, there are a multitude
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Now that the merger between CVS Health and Aetna is final, there is no better time to update our prior article which provided some interesting tidbits about the retail clinic business. There is no doubt that this marriage of two health care behemoths will generate a lot of upheaval in the public domain, with many
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