Tag: Healthcare
Post-Pandemic Healthcare and AI Transformation
Sharon Alvares
To what extent will AI-aided systems replace or augment existing technologies as the role of frontline care staff is being reshaped by computers that can monitor cases, analyze data and directly deliver basic care...
Optics & Occasion Favor President Biden's Big Speech
David Kusnet
When he addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, President Biden will likely use low-key rhetoric to advocate an ambitious agenda, from rebuilding the nation's physical and social infrastructure to strengthening American families, dismantling systemic racism and addressing climate change...
Improving Global Healthcare Access to Accelerate What's Right
Stephanie Tan
If COVID-19 has a lesson for us with regards to health, it is this: our social environments matter just as much as our DNAs and lifestyle choices. Experts are cognisant of the fact that joblessness, lack of education and racial inequities are part and parcel of the problems that need to be fixed...
The Biden Administration's First 100 Day Healthcare Agenda: Pandemic, Pandemic, Pandemic
While the Biden administration can be expected to have a robust healthcare agenda beyond the first 100 days, the president understands that getting the pandemic under better control is critical to making progress on other issues. As a result, his first 100 days will be all about the pandemic...
FDA Commissioner Steve Hahn, M.D. Discusses COVID-19 Response and His Tenure at the FDA
Justin Iannacone
Speaking at the January 8th Brazda Breakfast briefing, an event sponsored by APCO and hosted by our partner, The Alliance for Health Policy, Commissioner Hahn emphasized that communicating transparent standards and guidelines for the public was critical to ensuring that health care providers effectively combat COVID-19...
How Can We Make European Health Data Governance Models More Patient-Centric?
Gregoire Zammit
The COVID-19 crisis has been an eye-opener for many stakeholders, especially national governments, and has revealed that sharing health data is essential for enabling positive health outcomes and more sustainable health systems in Europe...
How to Achieve Healthcare Celebrity Status
Julie Orsini
As a global population, we're leaning in to science and the scientific community more than ever before—representing a critical inflection point for healthcare communicators and marketers...
Crisis Communications is Key to Healthcare Cybersecurity Planning
Richard Chen
Now, more than ever, the integrity of the healthcare industry depends on resilient proactive and reactive cybersecurity measures. Assembling a cyber crisis communications plan is a business decision that represents an organization's commitment to its customers and reputation...
Von der Leyen's Gambit: Turning Citizens into Champions of a European Health Union
Molly Clapperton
As health policy is a hot topic in a COVID-19 world, it was hardly surprising that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen opened her State of the European Union address on 16 September with four health proposals. In the pre-COVID-19 era, EU health policy would rarely have been the first item on the presidential agenda, but plenty has changed this year...
More to UK Health Reforms Than Just Obesity and COVID-19
Burhan Al-Gailani
& Lisa Neiss
& Gabriel Phillips
Two major reforms to the UK's public health system were announced in recent weeks—refreshed efforts to fight obesity, and the creation of a new body specifically to prevent a second wave of COVID-19. Both announcements represent an evolution, rather than a revolution, but are arguably more interesting for what they say about Prime Minister Boris Johnson's approach to government, and how businesses should engage with his administration...
Recap: Brazda Breakfast Briefing with Dr. Anthony Fauci
At the August 6th Brazda Breakfast briefing, an event sponsored by APCO and hosted by our partner, The Alliance for Health Policy, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci walked over 60 reporters through what we know now about COVID-19, how it spreads, where it is spreading, the status of vaccine development, and most importantly, what we all can and should do to slow the spread...
COVID-19 Made the Case for More EU on Health, but will There be any Meaningful Changes?
Christoph Mielke
& Gregoire Zammit
The COVID-19 crisis has given a boost to those who want the EU to play a bigger role in health. Only time will tell if EU Member States are really willing to take the jump and commit to a true "Europe of Health."..
Protecting Reputation and Engaging Healthcare Workers During and After COVID-19
COVID-19 is creating challenges never seen before in many of the nation's hospital health systems. The new normal is creating a threat to staff health, morale and confidence in their leadership...
Americans' Views on Key Healthcare Topics Evolve During Crisis
New research from APCO Insight explores is how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting Americans' attitudes and behaviors related to healthcare, measuring their views on the resilience and evolution of healthcare systems and the value of vaccines...
A 'New Normal' for Healthcare Communicators Post COVID-19
As painful, bewildering and traumatic as the past few weeks have been for businesses and society at large, one thing is clear: what we should really be hoping for is a return to 'a new normal'—a world where we apply the many learnings of the current crisis and emerge stronger...
Making Healthcare as Diversified as we Need it to Be
Nancy Turett
If there's one silver lining to the dark pandemic cloud hanging over all of us, everywhere, it's that we can apply the rude awakening to our shared vulnerabilities to accelerate a more proactive, preventative and protective approach to health...
Key Lessons from China's Coronavirus Epidemic
Stig Albinus
While Chinese and global public health officials fight the current coronavirus epidemic, it is important to step back and examine the underlying causes of this outbreak. We are likely to see a continuation of infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics in the future and learning from this epidemic may help prevent or mitigate the impact of future epidemics...
Delivering on the Promise of AI in Healthcare
Panelists agreed that the priority should be to ensure Europe's capacity to compete in AI and to develop a good framework to attract investment, and incentivize industry involvement and innovation in healthcare. ..
2020 and Drug Pricing
Jack Kalavritinos
In the United States, the issue of how to address prescription drug pricing will certainly be a hot button topic ahead of the 2020 election. The time is now for pharma companies to act and offer real and impactful solutions that help patients, while calling out elements of the healthcare system that create barriers to access in exchange for profit...
How Health Companies Can Promote Shared Decision Making
James Tyrrell
Patient consumers are increasingly influencing the future of healthcare. In this competitive and democratized environment, health providers and companies need to become more agile in the way they communicate...
How Multinationals Can Influence and Build a Healthy China
Anne Wang
& Toby Tanner
In China, significant opportunities exist for foreign enterprises to align with the government's ambitious healthcare reform goals and influence the future of the country's health sector...
The Role of Multilateral Institutions in Global Health
Andrei Goldis
With the global health community closely watching the UN's milestone High-Level Meeting on universal health coverage, Andrei Goldis takes a closer look at the World Health Organization's role in the evolving global healthcare landscape...
AI in Healthcare: Hype or Hope?
AI has a huge potential to revolutionize healthcare, but over-hyping AI can undermine the credibility of the promise...
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