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Telehealth will be worth about $25 billion in 2021

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SUMMARY: Deloitte predicts that the percentage of virtual video visits to doctors will rise to 5% globally in 2021, up from an estimated 1% in 2019. billion doctor’s visits, worth a total of approximately US$500 billion. The most time-consuming task is to make an appointment with your doctor just to ask for a new Rx or an Rx renewal.

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We need evidence-based digital health

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Digital health companies aim to address the numerous health care challenges, including poor patient engagement, communication gaps between patients and providers, lack of longitudinal data, inconvenience of care delivery, and insufficient clinical decision support for providers and patients. What about patients?

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Are new weight loss drugs an answer or problem?

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Worldwide obesity rates have tripled since 1975, with 650 million adults obese in 2016, according to the World Health Organization. But before the company can make Wegovy mainstream, it has to convince doctors to prescribe it and insurers and governments to pay for it. In addition, doctors may not be ready to prescribe the drug.

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Shareholders versus patients: Who is more important?

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By one projection, spending on the drug for Medicare patients could end up being higher than the budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency or NASA. When a new drug is derailed the first thing that pops out is the effect on the company’s stock price, not patients. Can a pharma company serve both shareholders and patients?

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Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug: What’s the price tag on hope?

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Since that time, Biogen’s MS drugs have faced intense competition as MS patients continue to vent on social media that the Biogen drug has nasty side effects. Too many doctors, the data was still questionable. Knopman, a Mayo Clinic neurologist who treats Alzheimer’s patients and is a member of the FDA advisory committee.

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What do future healthcare CEOs look like?

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I have to laugh when I hear that a pharma company is patient-centric because that’s become a slogan to make employees feel good about themselves while the costs of prescription drugs increase every year. Food and Drug Administration between 2010 and 2016 yet did taxpayers receive any discount?

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Health consumers: A long way off

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Consumers are seeking and embracing health outside of the traditional bricks-and-mortar sites of hospitals, doctors’ offices, and diagnostic centers. In 2016, consumers told Aflac that enrolling in health insurance should feel like an experience on Amazon. But there are problems. Forty-three of fifty U.S.