Innovation, Education Are CHPA Priorities To Help Consumers ‘Own’ Their Health Through Self-Care
US Trade Group ‘Looking At Self-Care More Broadly … Opportunity For Next Decade’
Executive Summary
“What can we do to help self-care and consumers in their journey? One is innovation, bringing different types of products to market and two, educating consumers because it's complicated. Health care is complicated, and people have a lot of things on their minds,” says CHPA president and CEO Scott Melville.
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