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Prescriptions Are Up, Health Services Utilization Down, and GLP-1s Are a Major Growth Driver: IQVIA’s 2024 Update

Health Populi

In the past year, the growth of prescription drug utilization and spending has much to do with the use of GLP-1 agonists to treat diabetes and obesity, along with immunology therapy, and lipid meds, along with specialty medicines now accounting for over half of spending — up from 49% in 2018.

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Health Deserves A Vision More Capacious Than Dashboard Metrics

The Healthcare Blog

Fed up with reactive care , many already collect data across wearables, lifestyle apps, DTC diagnostics, and more, but most are siloed. I reached for a similar point in 2018, in a piece entitled, We Are Not a Dashboard.

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