Her Covert Affairs team have no influence or insight into the resourcing over all. I cant comment that we can get back to you. Thank you for your comments, congressman. So thats exactly why we are here. I speak for a section of the pharmaceutical industry that few people actually appreciate, especially given the statistics that i referenced that two out of every three new drugs approved by the fda last year actually originated in companies that are small biopharmaceutical emerging companies. We dont have a voice in washington. Excelixis is not a member of pharma. Where a number of bio. We dont hear the realities, the pains and challenges that are faced to bring an important new drug to market, represent and the debates because i think a lot of people take for granted that its all great Big Companies with huge budgets and throwing a lot of money at problems. You may be an example of someone who is at a competitive disadvantage because you dont have the same resources to deploy into thos
Concierge some of the what is the word im looking for if you have cancer, catastrophic injuries, diabetes, lgbtq health, opioid use, pain management, all of those things are triggers for us to outreach to a member. And then on july 1st of this year, we also launched an enhanced program that is a digital experience for members. It is individualized based on their health care needs. I didnt put that information on here, but thought i would offer it up. And that is designed to treat the whole member and give them an individualized health and wellness pass. Its based on, if i log into the program or access it from my phone, and i put in my scores and my Blood Pressure and things like that, it will help and then any other identifying factors for a health care condition, it will create an individualized health care and wellness path for that member and give them access to several different applications that are housed on our app, so they can be successful in their wellness journey. Thats it.
Decided they have done their Due Diligence in trying to lose weight and they have decided it is time for bariatric surgery. They dont know whether those benefits exist, or if they did, if there is a particular centre of excellence that is recommended. Through provider upward optimization tools and navigation tools and through this intervention, the employer has the opportunity to influence a different way and go upstream with how the employee is actually going to interact with the healthcare system. The provider example might be that a referral for a special type of therapy, maybe immunotherapy that we have already about, the providers will say, who provides that type of service and to this type of spherical tape influence that we have here. They could be referred to a place that is in network and consider the best in class. Those are two life examples. On our next slide, and it is our final slide, as we walk away and open this up for discussion and for the carriers to come up and talk
Mentality. Its all on us, not the member to get the care they need, or talk to somebody about their Current Health care crisis or that of a family member. So identification for shield concierge some of the what is the word im looking for if you have cancer, catastrophic injuries, diabetes, lgbtq health, opioid use, pain management, all of those things are triggers for us to outreach to a member. And then on july 1st of this year, we also launched an enhanced program that is a digital experience for members. It is individualized based on their health care needs. I didnt put that information on here, but thought i would offer it up. And that is designed to treat the whole member and give them an individualized health and wellness pass. Its based on, if i log into the program or access it from my phone, and i put in my scores and my Blood Pressure and things like that, it will help and then any other identifying factors for a health care condition, it will create an individualized health
Services that were provided by the carriers themselves. And then over the last decade, we have seen some new trends where there were these passive disease Management Programs, those were something where maybe somebody had a couple of chronic conditions or something in the mail, or maybe by email, and frequently unfortunately these went into the garbage, but these were disease focused. And finally, in the last few years, we have seen Holistic Care through new Population Health Management Programs. These are focused on the individual, and have a holistic wellbeing based in meeting the individual needs. These could be provided by either a vendor or the carrier depending on what type of hybrid model is actually used. Lets go forward another slide. Okay. As we begin to delve into these frameworks and how they are changing, and how best to understand the marketplace, maybe the best place to start, is how are we defining Population Health management today . At the lowest necessary cost, it re