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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #40 – MintHealth – A Blockchain Tech-Enabled Platform Empowering Consumers to Make Lasting Healthy Behavior Change
Description: The rapidly escalating impact of chronic disease is devastating populations, employers, payers & economies – both in the U.S. and across the globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that, by 2025, chronic disease will make up over 70% of all illness. At the present time, preventable chronic disease is responsible for over 40 million of the 56 million annual deaths worldwide. The WHO has also projected that the global costs of healthcare will more than double between 2015 and 2030 – from $8.4 trillion to $18.3 trillion – with an estimated global productivity loss due to chronic disease, in that time frame, of $47 trillion. This is clearly an unsustainable situation...