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Virtual first care (V1C) – high-quality healthcare delivered virtually until it cannot be – will allow both new and incumbent providers to achieve success in the redefined value chain.

Yes Health provides concierge health coaching and services for weight loss and diabetes prevention, all through its app. After taking a short quiz, members will receive a personalized plan — created by the company’s dietitians, nutritionists, fitness experts and psychologists — to improve their health. The app also offers an AI-powered service where members can take pictures of their meals to receive guidance on how to make them healthier.

Remaining at or near the top of employers’ and consumers’ choices when it comes to health coverage will require insurers to make large investments in infrastructure, processes and people to overcome the status quo.

Amgen’s Lumakras became the first FDA-approved drug that addresses the elusive KRAS mutation, but Mirati believes its newly approved therapy, Krazati, could be better. The small molecule’s features include the ability to penetrate into the brain, where it can address cancer that has spread to the central nervous system.

Sanofi submitted the first unsolicited offer to acquire Horizon Therapeutics, but Amgen ultimately won what became a competitive bidding process. Amgen says Horizon's drug lineup complements its own portfolio of autoimmune and inflammatory disorder products.  

One technology that has tremendous potential to both broaden and improve access to preventive healthcare is wearable biosensing — more specifically, the continuous, non-invasive monitoring of multiple biomarkers from a smartwatch or wristband.

It may take some time to introduce VR into your skilled nursing facility, but it will be worth it for the physical, mental, and social benefit of your residents.

Each of us gets one life, and every life contains its own death. Engage with that fuller picture, wield hope carefully, and then, from everything this hospice doctor has seen, you will be OK, made whole by the time death rolls around, rather than pulled apart by it.

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced life sciences companies to take a fresh look at how they do business. But as they reinvent their operations, companies often overlook a critical function: Their learning and development programs.

Software company Feedtrail recently launched a clinician retention workgroup designed to streamline the process of connecting employees to positive patient feedback. The first cohort involves four providers, including Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and Huntington Hospital in Pasadena.