Discussions on health literacy are increasing as healthcare providers, clinicians, payers and patients consider what this means for healthcare. Having been involved in launching the world’s first digital interactive health channel in the UK in 2000, one thing I learned… Read More »9 Tribes of the Internet and their health interests
Andrew Yang is a democrat contender for president of the United States. He has expressed concern about a ‘jobless future’ as Martin Ford puts it [Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future], from technological change,… Read More »Should robots pay taxes?
Pain is, well, a pain. It is the one thing we all have direct experience of, and can communicate to others, but which defies direct clinical measurement. We are left with subjective measures of pain, such as the ‘oucher’ scale… Read More »Pain
The relevance of value in establishing the positioning of medicines is the new normal for pharmaceutical marketing. Pharmaceutical companies have customers who are highly constrained by whether healthcare system funding is sustainable long term. Remember, payers think epidemiologically and in… Read More »Positioning drugs in markets: how payers determine value
From the UK Guardian: private healthcare providers. The research on comparative performance of for profit and not for profit healthcare providers is well developed, so it is surprising to see such a weak quality assessment about private providers in the NHS.… Read More »Mixed economy of healthcare is more intelligent than a supertanker