There are many signposts in the marketplace pointing the way toward the new retail health/care for consumers. They include:
- Food and exercise as the new medicine
- Loneliness as the new smoking as a health risk
- Prevention as the new sustainability
- Home as the new long-term care locus
- Balancing humanity and technology, the analog and the digital, and
- Retail as a center of the new healthcare ecosystem.
Read more about the 7 Signs of the Retail Health Revolution, published by Drug Store News. This graphic-rich publication was based on a speech I gave at a recent retail health summit convened with healthcare’s largest suppliers in the industry to brainstorm the central role of the consumer and self-care in the new health economy.
One of the best aspects of my work is collaborating across the health/care ecosystem to address how health citizens can deal with health care costs and and care for families. I'm grateful to have collaborated with Fidelity on their research into this issue, 
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I’m celebrating America’s 250th birthday both patriotically and professionally, honored that the NLM included my 2010 paper, “How Smartphones Are Changing Healthcare for Consumers and Patients” as one of 250 items curated for the digital archive of 250 Years of American Medicine.