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Vendor Notebook: Specialty pharma, primary care AI to speed care

Healthcare It News

This week more vendors announce integrations with artificial intelligence-driven tools and platforms that better connect patients and doctors during visits, find and lower specialty medication costs and access care resources at home or on the go. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Health care in Spain

Healthcare ECONOMIST

of individuals >15 were daily smokers Alcohol use : 6% of adults regularly engage in heavy drinking (below EU average of 18.5%) [link] Healthcare spending Healthcare spending : €132 billion (as of 2021) Healthcare spending as a share of GDP : 10.8% (as of 2021) Pharmaceutical spending : €12.7 Country overview Population : 48.4 against 1.97).

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The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

Health Populi

Younger Americans prefer retail health settings for vaccines: retail clinics, urgent care sites, or retail pharmacies. Younger Americans prefer retail health settings for vaccines: retail clinics, urgent care sites, or retail pharmacies. preferring the medical office. PwC’s HRI team polled 10,003 U.S.

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As Wonderful as They Are, Antibiotics Aren’t a Cure-all

Healthcare Associates

Naturally, you go to your primary care doctor thinking you know just what you need. Early on, doctors found that some strains of bacteria were resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics that were added to the medical community’s bacteria-fighting arsenal. Pharmaceutical companies simply aren’t developing many new ones.

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Health Populi

Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic.

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How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

Health Populi

had the highest pharmaceutical spending per capita of $1,443 versus $749 for the other nations, roughly double. Access and quality of care in the U.S. varied, with that 10% of health citizens lacking coverage for basic health care. and other nations’ doctors — who may be underpaid overseas, the study points out.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to digital health’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity.