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Dietitians provide a health bridge between food and pharmacy

By on May 1, 2013 in Behavior change, Chronic care, Chronic disease, Complementary and alternative medicine, Consumer-directed health, Design and health, Diabetes, Environment and heatlh, FDA, Food and health, Health and Beauty, Health at home, Health care marketing, Health Consumers, Health disparities, Health Economics, Health engagement, Health literacy, Health marketing, Health social networks, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Heart health, Home care, Kids' health, media and health, Medication adherence, mHealth, Mobile health, Moms and health, Noncommunicable disease, Nutrition, Obesity, Patient engagement, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy, Popular culture and health, Prescription drugs, Prevention and wellness, Primary care, Retail health, Safety net and health, Seniors and health, Shopping and health, Social media and health, Supply chain, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Trust, Uninsured, Welness, Women and health

The registered dietitian is an in-demand labor resource for grocery stores around the U.S. Advertising Age covered the phenomenon of the growing clout of dietitians in food chains (April 14, 2013). Let’s dig further into this phenomenon through the Health Populi lens on healthcareDIY and peoples’ ability to bend their personal health care cost curves. Stores [...]

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FDA goes DTP(atient)

By on April 23, 2013 in Bio/life sciences, Design and health, Digital health, FDA, Health care marketing, Health Consumers, Health engagement, Health literacy, Health marketing, Health policy, Health regulation, Health social networks, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Medical device, Medical innovation, Medical technology, Patient engagement, Pharmaceutical, Public health, Social media and health

The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) launched its new website for and about patients, the Patient Network, with the tagline, “Bringing your voice to drug and device approval and safety.” With this move, the FDA moves toward social health, someplace where at least one-third of U.S. consumers already opine, shop, share personal info, crowdsource cures, [...]

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1 in 5 US consumers asks a doctor for a lower-cost Rx

By on April 10, 2013 in Bio/life sciences, Complementary and alternative medicine, Consumer-directed health, Design and health, FDA, Health care marketing, Health Consumers, Health engagement, Health marketing, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, media and health, Medicaid, Medicare, Medication adherence, mHealth, Mobile health, Patient engagement, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy, Physicians, Prescription drugs, Retail health, Shopping and health, Supply chain

  With U.S. health consumers spending $45 billion out-of-pocket for prescription drugs in 2011, pharmaceutical products are morphing into retail health products. As such, as they do with any other consumer good, consumers can vote with their feet by walking away from a product purchase or making the spend based on the price of the [...]

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Living paycheck to paycheck: what it means for health

By on February 14, 2013 in Administrative simplification, Behavioral health, Connected health, FDA, Financial health, Fitness, Food and health, Global Health, Health and Beauty, Health at home, Health care information technology, Health engagement, Health politics, Health Quality, Internet Demographics, Mobile health, Physicians, Uncategorized

While 50% of Americans feel they have a sound financial position, the other half is living paycheck to paycheck. 8% say they can’t even pay for essentials. The second annual Allstate “Life Tracks” Poll finds American adults split between have’s and have not’s, with even the “have’s” feeling less than financially literate. There is an [...]

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Managing the abundance of mHealth apps in the urban flea market

By on February 13, 2013 in Chronic care, Chronic disease, FDA, Health care information technology, Health care marketing, Health engagement, Health IT, Health regulation, Health social networks, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Internet and Health, media and health, Medical device, Medication adherence, mHealth, Mobile health, Personalized medicine, Prevention and wellness, Public health, Social media and health

The proliferation of mobile health (mHealth) apps appears to be an abundant cornucopia of “lite” tools that look simple to access and easy to use. But this growing menu of a la carte choices that promise to keep us healthy, track our numbers, and access useful health information can also, in the words of three [...]

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