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Because of Winn-Dixie, Will ALDI Expand Its Healthcare Footprint? Not Likely...
This week ALDI, the global food discount group, announced they would acquire Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores. In response to the deal, Supermarket News said that ALDI “is shaking up...
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“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 ArticleAn Antidote to Loneliness – Amazon’s 2023 Holiday Ad-Video Is A Lesson in...
To complement today’s sobering Health Populi post discussing Accenture’s 2024 Life Trends Study — an outlook for a decade of “deconstruction” based on technology and other trends in the ether — I share...
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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024
Not known for its salubrious qualities, Las Vegas will nonetheless be a locus for health, medical care, and well-being inspiration next week when the Consumer Technology Association convenes the annual...
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A Tale of Two Houses: House Calls at #CES2024 with Amazon and AARP + Samsung
The growing movement of health care to the home is evident by a growing list of point solutions featured at CES 2024. Digital health has been a fast-growing category of consumer-facing devices at CES...
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From 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...
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Hospital 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,...
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The Women’s Health Gap Is Especially Wide During Her Working Years – Learning...
There’s a gender-health gap that hits women particularly hard when she is of working age — negatively impacting her own physical and financial health, along with that of the community and nation in...
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The 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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A Springtime Re-Set for Self-Care, From Fitness to Cozy Cardio: Peloton’s...
How many people do you know that don’t know their cholesterol or their BMI, their net worth or IQ, their credit score, astrological sign, or ancestry pie-chart? Chances are fewer and fewer as most...
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