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Union Budget (2025-26) and comprehensive primary healthcare system: Another lost opportunity?

BMJ Leader

The notable budgetary announcement in healthcare includes reducing import duty on essential medicines, including online platform workers under Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) scheme, establishing day care cancer centers at District hospitals, and committing to broadband connectivity at the primary healthcare centers.

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Koen Kas, the Gardener of Health Tech Delights

Health Populi

The concept of “delight” in healthcare, such as we experience in hospitality, grocery stores, and entertainment, is elusive. Healthcare must go beyond traditional user-centered design, Koen’s experience has shown, and aspire toward design-to-delight. increasaingly take on the role as payor and, thus, healthcare consumer.

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

Health Populi

First, meet the stakeholders: they are patients, physicians (prescribers, which today can go beyond doctors per se to include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and others depending on state licensure), payers, and manufacturers of the drugs.

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The Rough Guide to Health/Care Consumers in 2025: The 2025 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

Here you have the latest data from The Commonwealth Fund detailing cost-related problems for people who were under-insured or lacked continuous coverage resulting in not filling prescriptions, skipping recommended tests or treatments, avoiding seeing a doctor when sick, or not getting specialty care when needed.