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DELIVERING ENDURING ADVANTAGES TO OUR INVESTMENT PARTNERS

INVESTING IN PEOPLE, TRUST AND DERISKING, AND HEALTHY

Welcome to the global Modern Selfcare, Consumer Health and Consumer Product neighbourhood www.theglobalstructurenetwork.com has Design.

The Global Structure Network Limited will be the first ever Life Science, Finance, Insurance, and Academia led Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health enterprise.

We are a Globally Commercially Driven Enterprise.

We Discover. We Make. We take the Lead

The Global Structure Network Limited and The Global Structure Diamond International and Advocacy, are trusted to lead—by Consumers, Stakeholders and Industry.

We are the world’s most Valuable Consumer Healthcare Asset and Mega Force

Investors, Stakeholders and Brands can directly contact us here:

[email protected] or [email protected]

Modern Selfcare Economies (Consumer Health and Development, Nutrition, Agriculture, Complementary and Integrative Health, Value-Based-and-Integrated Care, Food is Medicine, Medically Tailored Meal Programmes, Life Science OTC, Wellness, Wellness Infrastructure and Human Services upstream and downstream interventions just to name a few)

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Innovation in Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health is thriving thanks to The Global Structure Network Limited, Our Major areas of Foci, Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Framework, Our Value Proposition and the Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Trends powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy. It is predicted that in the next thirty years, global health and healthcare will advance more than it did in the preceding three millennia.

True invention, so the saying goes, demands excellent alliances and teamwork. The one thing we all need to have in common is a desire for strengthening consumers' capacities for Development, Health, and Triumphant Living as Culture. The Global Structure Network Limited, powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy, is the driver of the Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health innovations and other specific Health innovations taking place around the world. We are excited to be the Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health disruptive force at the intersection of Knowledge, Healthy Resilience, Healthy Longevity, Operational Resilience and Efficacy. We are the transformational Megaforce having a positive Impact on Value and guaranteeing the Commercial Excellence of Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Investments.

The Global Structure Network Limited, the epicentre of the global Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health neighbourhoods, offers Investors a captive audience. We are here to assist investors wishing to scale their investments in the global communities of Consumer Health and Modern Selfcare at every stage of the process, wherever you may be. We are your greatest partner and staunchest ally as the Centre of Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Commercial Excellence, enabling you to have a revolutionary influence on Health, Development, and Triumphant Living as Culture at the Consumer level.

Providing Competitive Advantage and Facilitating Differentiating Capabilities

I extend an invitation to CEOs, Brands, and Investors to join me in this Commercial venture. Together, we can seize the opportunities that our success has created and provide new and innovative Consumer Goods, Consumer Healthcare, Wellness and Wellness Infrastructure and Modern Selfcare Products and Services with a unique and distinct value proposition.

We are key to ensuring enhanced Investment Returns for those Investing in the global Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health economy and for our portfolio of Brands to stay ahead of the pacing commercial competition from their competitors, who is seeking to secure Modern Selfcare, Consumer Goods and Consumer Health commercial advantages.

The Global Structure Network Limited lies at the heart of commercial competition within the global Modern Selfcare, Consumer Goods and Consumer Health economies and across the Wealth creation continuum.

Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health have rapidly matured. The Global Structure Network Limited lens has become increasingly important for Consumers. The merits and justification for including Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health strategies have been answered in towns and cities all over the world because of The Global Structure Network Limited, powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy and our Value Creation Domains:

Triumphant Living, The Quantified Self, The Institution of Household Efficiency, & Operational Resilience

Disease Prevention, Health Promotion, Cultural Transformation, and Quality Enhancement

Knowledge, Healthy Resilience, Healthy Longevity, Operational Resilience and Efficacy.

Leading Stakeholders tie The Global Structure Network Limited and our Value Proposition powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy to their investment thesis in order to deliver differentiated outcomes and drive Financial Value from it. They take these actions because they have a thorough awareness of the potential and expectations that The Global Structure Network Limited activates on the commercial, operational, and consumer fronts. Additionally, they act in this way in an effort to create and protect value.

It is becoming increasingly clear that considering The Global Structure Network Limited, Our Major Areas of Foci, Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Framework, Our Value Proposition, and the Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Trends catalysed from my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy on Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Investments means understanding the commercial implications that could have a transformational impact on enhanced Investment Returns.

Modern Selfcare, Consumer Goods, Wellness and Wellness Infrastructure and Consumer Health Trends:

Resilience: A structural investment

Value-Based Care Practices and Actions

Complementary and Integrative Health

Integrated Care

Precision Nutrition

Food is Medicine

Medically Tailored Meal Programmes et al.

Consumer Products: the creation of entirely new product lines that offer unique value propositions.

Consumer Health: new products that meet evolving consumer demands and to capitalise on new and emerging trends.

Consumer Development: The Quantified Self

Human Services: People-Centred Practices

We are the Big Action in the Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Economies:

Consumer Health and Development

Nutrition

Agriculture

Complementary and Integrative Health

Value-Based-and-Integrated Care

Food is Medicine

Consumer Goods

Medically Tailored Meal Programmes

Life Science OTC

Wellness, and Wellness Infrastructure

Human Services upstream and downstream interventions, just to name a few)

We are prioritising High-Value Proprietary Investment Partnerships, Franchising, and Collaborations

Consumers view The Global Structure Network Limited as the Root of Trust in the global Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Economy and within Modern Selfcare, Consumer Goods, Wellness & Wellness Infrastructure, and Consumer Health Culture/trends that were catalysed by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience and Efficacy, Our Modern Selfcare Framework, Major Areas of Foci and our Value Proposition.

Major Areas of Foci: New Frontiers:

Neurological Wellbeing

Metabolic Wellbeing

The Wellbeing of The immune System

Healthy Ageing

Human Services

Our Commercial Agenda will live on the Frontiers of those trends, domains and Major Areas of Foci. It is focused on three components - We Discover. We Make. We take the Lead:

A fully functioning Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health upstream and downstream Platform

A global Modern Selfcare, Consumer Goods and Consumer Health Branded Products, Services, and Capital marketplace.

A fully functioning global Health, Development and Empowerment campus or common where Consumers will have an opportunity to mingle with our Modern Selfcare, Consumer Health and Health policymakers, researchers, the Multinational Institution that we are an extension of, our CEOs, The Founder’s Gallery, and a lot more for bringing the Modern Selfcare, Consumer Health and Empowerment trends to life.

We are prioritising High-Value Investment Partnerships, franchising, and collaborations to unlock the full potential and diffusion of our Value Proposition powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy and to amplify the social and economic incentives from investing in The Global Structure Network Limited and The Global Structure Diamond International and advocacy www.gsdiandadvocacy.co.uk

Finding the right Health, Development, and Triumphant Living as Culture partner is about so much more than just financial investment or expertise; it’s about alignment, trust, and a long-term relationship. https://theglobalstructurenetwork.com/f/the-launch-engine-to-fuel-sustainable-revenue-and-margin-growth

I am looking forward to directly hearing from Investors, Brands, and CEOs from all Sectors including Infotech. [email protected] [email protected]

Your Centre for Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Commercial Excellence and Your Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Root of Trust,

Gary (The Founder's Gallery)

The Founder’s Gallery (Centre for Modern Selfcare and Consumer Healgth including Human Services Commercial Excellence)– Disease Prevention, Health Promotion, Cultural Transformation, and Quality Enhancement- (Global Freedom and Personal Health and Wellbeing ProsperityPolicy Chair)

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Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care Recognizes Excellence in Traditional and Complementary Medicine

Celebrating the Champions of Traditional & Complementary Medicine

The Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC), in collaboration with the Department of Health (DOH), is set to honor exemplary pioneers in Traditional & Complementary Medicine (T&CM) at the highly anticipated Gold, Silver, and Bronze Seal of Excellence awarding ceremony. The event will take place on July 6, 2023, at the prestigious SEDA Vertis North in Quezon City. Recognizing Dedication to RA 8423 and PITAHC Initiatives The recipients of these esteemed awards have been meticulously evaluated based on their comprehensive efforts to implement Republic Act (RA) 8423, also known as the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997, alongside its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). This evaluation encompasses various aspects, including PITAHC programs and activities, emphasizing achievements in the following categories: P – Pioneering and innovative Practices I – Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials developed, produced/reproduced and distributed T – Training & Education attended by staff A – Advancement of at least one T&CM Modality through research H – Herbal/Communal Garden C – Community development and services A Step Toward Advocating Traditional & Complementary Medicine PITAHC Director General Annabelle Pabiona-De Guzman expressed her optimism, stating, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a simple step, may this awarding ceremony pave the way for the promotion of the advocacy of Traditional & Complementary Medicine." This recognition not only celebrates the exceptional work of the awardees but also aims to raise awareness and appreciation for T&CM practices among the wider population. Inspiring Excellence and Community Service PITAHC has introduced the "PITAHC Seal of Excellence: the Search for Traditional and Complementary Champions," an award system designed to promote the highest standards of professionalism, inspire excellence, and encourage community service. The PITAHC Seal of Excellence (SOE) aims to acknowledge the outstanding practices and contributions of Local Government Units (LGUs), DOH Centers for Health Development (CHDs), and DOH retained Hospitals in their efforts to elevate the status of T&CM within the Filipino healthcare landscape. A Crucial Step Toward Enhanced Healthcare Provision DOH Secretary Teodoro Herbosa lauded PITAHC's initiatives, emphasizing their importance in expanding healthcare options for the Filipino people. He stated, "The PITAHC's efforts are part of our pivotal tasks to increase the number of possible healthcare options and remedies for our countrymen." Secretary Herbosa commended PITAHC's dedication in highlighting the achievements of LGUs and CHDs, aligning with the government's vision of delivering high-quality healthcare services through the Universal Healthcare program. He further emphasized that these endeavors realize the goal of a Healthy Pilipinas, where we value every life. By recognizing and celebrating the exceptional contributions and advancements made in Traditional & Complementary Medicine, the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Seal of Excellence awarding ceremony serves as a platform for promoting these alternative healthcare practices and raising public awareness about their benefits. Through the collaborative efforts of PITAHC, DOH, and various healthcare entities, the Philippines takes another significant step toward achieving comprehensive and inclusive healthcare provision for all its citizens. Sources: THX News & Department of Health. Read the full article

#AlternativeHealthCare #andBronzeAwards #CommunityService #Gold #HealthConsumers #HealthyPilipinas #PITAHCSealofExcellence #ProfessionalStandards #Silver #Traditional&ComplementaryMedicine #TraditionalMedicineAct #UniversalHealthcare

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4 The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe.

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From Health Consumers To Health Citizens | Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, THINK Health & Health Populi Blog

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, health economist, advisor and author of “HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen” explains how consumers are getting screwed by the American health system because of the industry’s lack of transparency and lack of privacy laws that protect patient data. Jane weighs in on the consumerization of healthcare, which she believes has put the patient into the position of the “payer” — but without any of the information, buying power, or right to manage their money like a true consumer. How do we, as patients, move from healthcare consumers to “health citizens”? Jane’s done the research, and she’s sharing it here!

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Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

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From Health Consumers To Health Citizens | Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, THINK Health & Health Populi Blog

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RT IBMWatsonHealth "RT healthythinker: We must realize that the Patient is Now The Payor in #healthcare - with more evidence from KFF & PetersonCHealth finds 67% growth in #healthconsumer spending on OOP + #healthinsurance premiums btwn 2008-2018 #He… https://t.co/OmA9HHmvkq"

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals. Chapter 5 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, details the promise of digital health: wearable, shareable and virtual.

Today, we can also call on Alexa to remind us to take medications, play nostalgic music when we are lonely, check our physical activity status with Fitbit, and query WebMD about a symptom. Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect.

Broadband connectivity, cloud computing, data analytics and well-conceived artificial intelligence (AI) enable the use of data generated from digital health tools to benefit our health. Increasingly, as connectivity gets to each of us wherever we live, work, play, and learn, and sensors shrink and lower in cost, we can do more self-care at home and in lower-cost venues to help bend that stubborn medical cost curve. This is a health economist’s Holy Grail, and my vision for the home-as-health-hub which is my end-image in HealthConsuming.

As I walk the miles of aisles at the annual CES, I track ten technology categories that can support this paradigm, covering more mature digital health tech like WiFi weight scales and personal emergency response systems to the growing Internet of Things ecosystem for smart and connected homes and cars, an emerging third space for health that Honda, Mercedes, Toyota, et. al., are concepting, which I wrote about back in 2007 focusing on Toyota’s wellness car concept.

Promising, promising.

With every one of these digital health encounters, from Alexa to Zipongo, a bit of data is created. It’s personal stuff, and it’s a tiny little bit about “you.”

All that digital dust can be collected, mashed up and built into a personal profile for your benefit, or for other reasons. The graphic is based on work done by Juhan Sonin of GoInvo, a group that does brilliant work on health data design that’s vigilantly people-focused. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

Juhan and another person first shaped my views converging the promise of digital health data through enchanting design, and the perils of Big Data algorithms. Juhan for the former lightbulb moment; and for the latter, Fred Trotter. I interviewed Fred for research I was conducted on behalf of the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) in 2014.

For CHCF that year, I wrote Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Being Tracked and Used, I took cues from a 60 Minutes‘ profile of third-party data brokers and Latanya Sweeney’s groundbreaking research at the Harvard Privacy Lab. Latanya found that just a few data points — which fell out of HIPAA-privacy protected flows — could re-identify a person with, say, HIV positive status, a mental health DSM-code, or degenerative disease.

Five years later, patients still share their personal health information on Facebook groups, with the promise of crowdsourcing cures, accessing support and advice, and finding community.

As a WEGO Health poll of patient activists found in April 2019, patients continue to share this very intimate data, even in the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story, growing cybersecurity breaches of medical data, and a challenging environment for trust and “fake news” for health care.

In researching the thorny privacy issues for HealthConsuming,. I learned the phrase “a concerned embrace of technology” from Deloitte’s 2017 survey of U.S. mobile consumers. Deloitte found that 80% of consumers believed that companies were using their personal data and that their data wsa being shaerd with third parties. But people were williong to share “some” online data (like name or email address), less willing to share health metrics using a phone or wearable device — only 7% of people willing to do that in 2017 based on this poll.

So “concerned embrace” for health means that trust is the enabling bridge between digital health connections and peoples’ willingness to share data — underpinned by stronger privacy protections and true data ownership for each person. Through that ownership and control, people could monetize their own data and treat it as the personal asset it truly is.

This is the plotline between HealthConsuming‘s Chapter 5 on the promise of “Digital Health: Wearable, Shareable, Virtual” and Chapter 6 on “Privacy and Health Data In-Security.”

Tomorrow will be my fifth and final post in this week’s series outlining HeatlhConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, focusing on the last two words in the title. Can and will Americans take on the role of health citizens, with health care access as a civil right and full privacy protections, coupled with the responsibilities for self-care and health engagement, and the civic responsibility to vote and engage in civil discourse? We’ll round out this journey in tomorrow’s Health Populi.

That’s the argument for health citizenship, our topic for tomorrow’s #5 of five posts plotlining HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, all this week in the Health Populi blog.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Promising, promising.

With every one of these digital health encounters, from Alexa to Zipongo, a bit of data is created. It’s personal stuff, and it’s a tiny little bit about “you.”

Five years later, patients still share their personal health information on Facebook groups, with the promise of crowdsourcing cures, accessing support and advice, and finding community.

This is the plotline between HealthConsuming‘s Chapter 5 on the promise of “Digital Health: Wearable, Shareable, Virtual” and Chapter 6 on “Privacy and Health Data In-Security.”

That’s the argument for health citizenship, our topic for tomorrow’s #5 of five posts plotlining HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, all this week in the Health Populi blog.

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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE, CONSUMPTION GROWTH, REVENUE GROWTH, SCALE, SCOPE

INVESTING IN PEOPLE, TRUST AND DERISKING, AND HEALTHY

Welcome to the global Modern Selfcare, Consumer Health and Consumer Product neighbourhood www.theglobalstructurenetwork.com has Design.

The Global Structure Network Limited will be the first ever Life Science, Finance, Insurance, and Academia led Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health enterprise.

We are a Globally Commercially Driven Enterprise.

We Discover. We Make. We take the Lead

The Global Structure Network Limited and The Global Structure Diamond International and Advocacy, are trusted to lead—by Consumers, Stakeholders and Industry.

We are the world’s most Valuable Consumer Healthcare Asset and Mega Force

Investors, Stakeholders and Brands can directly contact us here:

[email protected] or [email protected]

https://theglobalstructurenetwork.com/how-to-engage-us

Investment Spotlight: https://www.gsdiandadvocacy.co.uk/investment-spotlight

For the latest Sector News, click here: https://www.gsdiandadvocacy.co.uk/news

The Global Structure Network Limited is the unrivalled Innovative ASSET.

The world’s preoccupation with Our Major areas of Foci, Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Framework and Value Proposition powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy, is starting to be felt across the global Consumer Landscape and beyond.

Our research tells us that Investors and Brands looking to Invest in the Modern Selfcare Economies are after one Asset that will be the source of Multiple Value for cost-effective defense and growth-oriented offense in support of the global transition. The Global Structure Network Limited, Our Major areas of Foci, Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Framework, powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy, is the unrivalled Multiple Source of Value Innovative Asset.

The global Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Megatrends were catalysed by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy,Our Major areas of Foci and our Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Value Proposition. Because of this, we continue to be the only significant driver for Brands and Investors looking to support development and optimise portfolios centred around the Major areas of Foci, Our Value Proposition and the global Consumer Health and Modern Selfcare megatrends:

Major Areas of Foci: New Frontiers:

Neurological Wellbeing

Metabolic Wellbeing

The Immune system Wellbeing

Healthy Ageing

Human Services

Modern Selfcare, Consumer Goods, Wellness and Wellness Infrastructure and Consumer Health Trends:

Resilience: A structural investment

Value-Based Care Practices and Actions

Complementary and Integrative Health

Integrated Care

Precision Nutrition

Food is Medicine

Medically Tailored Meal Programmes et al.

Consumer Products: the creation of entirely new product lines that offer unique value propositions.

Consumer Health: new products that meet evolving consumer demands and to capitalise on new and emerging trends.

Consumer Development: The Quantified Self

Human Services: People-Centred Practices

We are the only Asset that can Reinforce our Investors and Brands Strategic Priorities.

The Global Structure Network Limited, powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, Efficacy, Our Value Creation Framework, Our Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health and Development Knowledge, Strategy and Policy common www.gsdiandadvocacy.co.uk and our Value Proposition is trusted by Consumers, Industry, and Stakeholders to lead. It is the only Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health force that is in play across the global deal landscape. It is the unrivalled Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Brand and Culture that will deliver a commercial advantage to our Investors and Brands.

It is the Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Asset that drives R&D within the Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health economies and beyond. It is also the unrivalled Commercial Asset that drives Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health commercialization and as a result, Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health strategic priorities. The Global Structure Network limited and The Global Structure Diamond International, and Advocacy www.gsdiandadvocacy.co.uk are critical Infrastructures.

It is the Big Action in the Modern Selfcare Economies:

Consumer Health and Development

Nutrition

Agriculture

Complementary and Integrative Health

Value-Based-and-Integrated Care

Food is Medicine

Consumer Goods

Medically Tailored Meal Programmes

Life Science OTC

Wellness, and Wellness Infrastructure

Human Services upstream and downstream interventions, just to name a few)

The Global Structure Network Limited, powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, Efficacy, Our Value Creation Framework, Our Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health and Development Knowledge, Strategy and Policy common www.gsdiandadvocacy.co.uk and our Value Proposition is the basis on which all Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health and Development Services and Research are planned and delivered.

Competitive Advantage, Consumption Growth, Revenue Growth, Added Value, Scope, and Scale: We Offer Investors and Brands a Competitive Advantage in the Global Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Economies. As part of our partnership, we will Add Value to the existing Consumer Health and Modern Selfcare Assets of the company while helping them to scale Profitably.

We are prioritising high-value Proprietary Investment Partnerships, Franchising, and Collaborations

Consumers view The Global Structure Network Limited as the Root of Trust in the global Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Economy and within Modern Selfcare, Consumer Goods, Wellness & Wellness Infrastructure, and Consumer Health Culture/trends that were catalysed by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, Our Modern Selfcare Framework, Major Areas of Fociand our Value Proposition.

Our Commercial Agenda will live on the Frontiers of those trends, domains and Major Areas of Foci. It is focused on three components - We Discover. We Make. We take the Lead:

A fully functioning Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health upstream and downstream Platform

A global Modern Selfcare, Consumer Goods and Consumer Health Branded Products, Services, and Capital marketplace.

We are prioritising high-value Investment Partnerships, franchising, and collaborations to unlock the full potential and diffusion of our Value Proposition powered by my more than 20 years of Healthy Structural Performance, Operational Resilience, and Efficacy and to amplify the social and economic incentives from investing in The Global Structure Network Limited www.theglobalstructurenetwork.com and The Global Structure Diamond International and advocacy www.gsdiandadvocacy.co.uk

I extend an invitation to CEOs, Brands, and Investors to join me in this Commercialventure. Together, we can seize the opportunities that our success has created and provide newand innovative Consumer Goods, Consumer Healthcare, Wellness and Wellness Infrastructure and Modern Selfcare Products and Services with a uniqueand distinct value proposition.

I am looking forward to directly hearing from Investors, Brands, and CEOs from all Sectors including Infotech. [email protected] [email protected]

Your Centre for Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Commercial Excellence and Your Modern Selfcare and Consumer Health Root of Trust,

Gary (The Founder's Gallery)

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Listen Up, Healthcare: Hear The Patient’s Voice!

Consider the voice of a patient before the advent of the Internet in the digital 1.0 world, and then the proliferation of social networks in v 2.0. One patient could talk with another over their proverbial neighborhood fence, a concerned parent at the PTA meeting with others dealing with a children’s health issue, or a recovering alcoholic testifying in person at an AA session.

Today, the voice of the patient is magnified one-to-many, omnichannel and multi-platform — via video, blogs, podcasts, social networks, listservs….and, yes, still in live forums like AA meetings, church basements, Y-spaces, and the Frazzled Cafe meet-ups in Marks & Spencer retail cafes across the UK.

WEGO Health’s new report on the state of patient social networks found that patients are indeed socially-sharing personal health information with each other — but getting savvier about it with respect to managing privacy.

Nine in ten patient influencers told WEGO Health that online communities play an important role in their health care decisions.

More granularly, nine in ten patient activists have shared personal details about a prescription drug they have used, and most of these people have had a positive experience doing so.

WEGO Health polled 412 patient activists on their use of social media for health. The top line is quite clear: among all social media platforms, most patients use Facebook to engage with people-like-them for health and social support. If Facebook disappeared, a plurality of these patients would turn to Instagram, then Twitter.

This, within a year of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica revelations about the in-security of personal data and lack of transparency when it comes to a platform’s sharing of that data with third parties. I wrote about that moment here in Health Populi just over one year ago, saying that, “This week’s revelations about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the U.S. political system will contribute to Americans’ continued cynicism and concern for privacy. People, and especially wearing the hat of a patient, need to feel that their personal data are held by trusted stewards. Doctors have long played that singular trusted role for holding data in the patient relationship.”

Fifty-five percent of patient influencers said that privacy concerns have not changed their use of Facebook. But that means that 45% of patients have adopted a more guarded approach using social media for personal health. One of the big shifts in patients’ social sharing of health information is that half are sharing on closed patient networks.

After trusting patient networks, the most-trusted sites are health-focused portals like WebMD and healthcare provider sites like Mayo Clinic, and patient/disease advocacy sites (e.g., American Heart Association, Susan G. Komen, et al.).

One of the key findings in this study is that patients’ trust of pharma sites is low.

Health Populi’s Hot Points: As patients’ trust of pharma websites remains low, the personal cost of prescription and specialty drugs for people managing challenging chronic conditions is growing. Media may report that the annual change in drug pricing has been more modest in the past year; however, the patient-facing cost can be onerous based on people enrolled in high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance.

The patient is the payor, I argue in my newly-published book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. In the book, I cite a survey which was a collaboration with the WEGO Health patient community on the cost of healthcare. Once we analyzed the results, we titled the poll, “The Empowered Patient and the Endangered Wallet.” That’s because one-half didn’t have enough money to cover their out-of-pocket costs; one-third had OOP spending over $5,000 in one year.

Increasingly, patient conversations cover costs as much as they do clinical-medical and social components. (I recently found this re-confirmed in a study I worked on with OptimizeRx, discussed here). Financial health is part of the patient’s experience now. And pharma, already not-trusted for engaging with patients online, are in the sights of hospitals, health plans, and physicians in the current healthcare cost blame-game on Main Street in mass media and in Congressional Capitol Hill hearings.

Moving Americans from health consumers to health citizens will require dealing with health care access for all, addressing the negative fiscal and physical impacts of self-rationing care and drugs due to cost; and securing privacy in the era of the data cloud, AI and machine learning, and peoples’ desire to share data with people-like-me.

Jack Barrette, Founder and CEO of WEGO Health, advised me that the roughly 50% of patient influencers who continue to use Facebook even after the platforms privacy gaffes has remained the same over the many years since he founded WEGO Health. This can mean a couple of things: to me, educated by Susannah Fox’s learning that patients (particularly younger ones) are driven to find “just-in-time-people-like-me.” Couple that motivation with highly-activated people dealing with medical conditions seeking support and advice in real time — underpinned also by “data altruism,” the value of paying-it-forward to other patients by sharing data — and even in the wake of Facebook’s bad behavior will this group of patients still engage with the social platform.

This is why my book and I advocate for an American-style GDPR, the privacy protections of which our European brother-and-sister patient-consumers enjoy.

Healthcare industry, pharma and beyond: listen to patients. Social networks as trusted patient-empowered platforms can help patient/consumer health engagement and, as a positive side effect, build that all-important lagging trust.

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How Footwear Became Our Favorite Apparel Item in the Pandemic

Our feet have become an important health focus during the pandemic, as the importance of exercise-as-medicine and mental health helper has looked to walking, running, and biking as good-for-us physical activities.

The Mayo Clinic published an informative piece on Feet and the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Cleveland Clinic posted advice on exercising during the pandemic earlier this month with the strong recommendation of walking.

So it makes sense that the apparel category whose brand equity grew most between 2020 and 2021 was footwear, announced in the Brand Finance Apparel 50.

Each year, Brand Finance evaluates the value of “brands,” as defined as that intangible asset encompassing names, signs, symbols, logos, designs, and associations made int he minds of stakeholders that, together, generate economic benefits.

In the COVID-19 pandemic era of retail and consumers, it’s useful to consider Brand Finance’s findings in terms of where people found value in the face o fthe public health crisis.

In terms of apparel, that value grew faster for footwear than for any other apparel category. In fact, value for all other categories fell between 2020 and 2021, especially hard-hit for underwear (!), high street designers, and luxury goods.

In the pandemic, we’ve been living through #StayHome, #WorkFromHome, and #SchoolFromHome life changes. Those people who have undergone digital transformations in daily living are experiencing so much of life on screens, for work dressing “above the waist. The apparel industry was hard-hit, shifting to ecommerce from brick-and-mortar retail shopping.

We changed our clothes in the pandemic, as the NPD Group re-assessed the Wear-to-Work trends in apparel re-shaped by the coronavirus era.

The footwear category was profoundly changed by the pandemic in terms of consumers’ search for health and wellness, fitness from home, and comfort-casual and the athleisure fusion of fashion and athletics.

Walking, running, going outside for fresh air required shoes and for many people, new shoes.

Two luxury goods brands took 2nd and 3rd place — Gucci and Louis Vuitton — followed by Adidas in #4, another footwear brand.

In its analysis of the COVID-19 fallout at shoe retailers, the NPD Group pointed out that with gyms and fitness centers closed, the home became the hub for fitness and workouts, and performance running shoe sales grew during the COVID-19 recession. “The virus itself has motivated many consumers to adopt healthier practices and place a greater emphasis on their physical health and wellbeing,” the analysts believe.

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Please indulge me in this retail/brand analysis, as I’m the daughter of a father who was in the clothing industry; I come by my interest in retail, marketing and apparel via DNA. I was very close with both my Dad and his brother Alvin Sarasohn, who was one of the original Mad Men in American advertising, another reason you see me covering marketing and media in my approach to HealthConsuming

As for brands in health care, while we might pay for medical services and products as if they are priced as luxury goods (the apparel segment ranked first in overall brand reputation), pharma as a branded industry ranked 11th on the list of 21 industries in Brand Finance 2021’s study across sectors. (Note that two pharma brands were among the fastest growing consumer brands in 2020: Pfizer and AstraZeneca, discussed here in Health Populi.

Cosmetics and food ranked 2nd and 3rd, tied, closely followed by many other industries.

Looking at the fine print of the index numbers, Pharma really isn’t that far behind other industries in this study, falling just under apparel and beers, and tied with retail, restaurants, and airlines.

Telecoms and banks ranked last on the list by brand reputation.

The pandemic has undoubtedly and profoundly re-shaped people as consumers, patients, and health citizens. What we have learned dealing with the crisis in our homes, communities, workplaces and schools is blurring into our relationship with our own health, well-being, and healthcare system decisions and interactions.

We’ve seen shifts toward cooking for health at home, increasing use of vitamins and supplements to bolster immunity, growing use of wearable tech for fitness and medical care, and other more radical acts of self-care in the wake of the pandemic. These choices will persist for many as the pandemic becomes endemic and longer-lived than anyone of us would have predicted in March 2020 as the virus took on the persona of “pandemic.”

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

People in the U.S. are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences.

This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen.

The COVID-19 crisis has bolstered peoples’ concerned embrace of tech: in the pandemic, more consumers have lost confidence in sharing data with both government and Big Tech.

In the Pew survey, 3 in 4 consumers re comfortable sharing their personal health information with apps pre-approved by doctors and hospitals, consistent with the general trust of health care providers as trusted data stewards.

More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data.

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA. Without confidence in the privacy of security of the download site and party, consumers would more likely hesitate in sharing data.

And in the coronavirus pandemic, consumers’ withholding data compromises a community’s ability to manage the spread of infection and “crush” the virus.

The need to inspire trust in sharing personal data in and beyond medical information is becoming increasingly critical in the growing internet-of-things era for health care, from Alexa-skills in voice technology to wearable tech and remote health monitoring shifting care to our homes (see here for more on the home as health hub).

Most consumers understand that data-sharing between health care providers yields value, and support enabling different providers to share personal health information between EHR systems. Over two-thirds of consumers in the Pew study said they would want their different providers (doctors, hospitals, and other clinicians) to share all kinds of information about them including advanced care plans and end-of-life wishes, family medical histories, and other very personal data.

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S. consumers’ adoption of digital health technology stalled. One of the driving forces was found to be privacy concerns about health data protections.

This chart comes from Accenture’s study, illustrating high trust in health care stakeholders — hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, and labs — compared with lower percentages of people trusting tech companies and government agencies to keep personal digital health information secure.

I identified four pillars of health citizenship in my latest book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds, one of which is “digital citizenship.”

The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S. health consumers the importance of personal health data as an asset — that is both a personal one and, in aggregate mashed up with fellow health citizens’ data — a public health asset.

That speaks to the accelerated need for a contemporary privacy law that covers a broader group of stakeholders beyond the legacy health care system, in this post-HIPAA era where our digital dust gets generated through our smartphones, apps, retail receipts and credit cards, and social network check-ins. Something akin to an American-style GDPR or national version of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) would address this need for American digital health citizens.

But the eroding trust people feel compromises health consumers’ buy-in to sharing personal health information. That brings us to another of the four health citizenship pillars: trust.

Trust is in short supply in the U.S. in the current climate: trust in science, trust in government, and trust in each other is in short supply.

Part of re-building U.S. health care better will require recognizing the trust component that was lost even before the pandemic and exacerbated during the public health crisis. In adopting consumer-centered design for health care technology, digging into consumers’ trust barriers and addressing them through privacy-by-design principles will help foster digital health adoption among health citizens. That won’t solve all of the huge trust chasm in America but will help out to nudge the digital health adoption challenge.

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The Heart of Health at CES 2020 – Evidence & Innovation Bridge Consumers and Doctors

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. Heart-focused technologies are a big part of that growth story.

In fact, in our search for devices and tools underpinned with clinical proof, evidence is growing for consumer-facing technology for heart-health, demonstrated by this year’s CES. Wrist-worn devices, digital therapeutics, patient engagement platforms, pharma and health plans converged at this year’s CES, with the professional association “blessing” of the American College of Cardiology who granted a continuing medical education credit for physicians attending a one-day “disruptive innovations” conference held on Thursday this week in Las Vegas.

One key marker that heart-health has matured for clinical patient use at CES is the collaboration between CTA and the Heart Rhythm Society developing guidance for wearable health solutions, published this week.

The report identifies the categories of digital health tech featured at CES that can be utilized for personal health management, especially cardiac health, including fitness monitors (from simple tracking to mobile electrocardiogram and blood pressure checks), smartwatches, wrist sensors, ear wear (aka “hearables”), smart clothing, smart jewelry, smart contact lenses and smart tattoos.

There are many types of biometric data these devices can collect relevant to heart and metabolic function, such as steps, time of activity, calories burned, heart rate, heart rhythm, ECG, blood pressure, sleep quantity and quality, glucose level, oxygen level, body temperature, brainwaves (electroencephalogram), muscle biosignals (electromyography), cardiorespiratory function, movement patterns, sweat analysis, tissue oxygenation, emotional state and cognitive function, the report lists.

In Valencell’s recent survey of consumer wearable preferences, 55% of people said they’d like to monitor blood pressure, up from 46% in 2016 as shown in this bar chart from the study. One in two people would like to monitor stress and heart health, and 33% would like to monitor blood glucose levels. Thus on the demand side, patients, now more activated as health care payors and consumers, are expressing demand for health monitoring beyond step-tracking.

The HRS/CTA guidelines offer pros and cons of wearable tech, providing a balanced view on the current state of efficacy, quality, and physician willingness to accept consumers’ use of digital health tools. On the “pro” side of the equation are,

Immediate access to real-time health data

Motivation and encouragement especially vis-a-vis patient social networks

Accountability through tracking and monitoring, and

Potentially enhanced physician-patient relationships, early detection, and clinical decision-making.

On the “cons” side, consider,

Varying data accuracy and potential for false readings

Unproven benefits

Limited accessibility due to cost barriers or lack of internet access

Lack of data interoperability between consumer/patient-generated data and a clinician’s EHR

Data overload for consumers and/or clinicians, and

Data security and privacy concerns.

With comfortable shoes on my feet and heart health on my mind, I curated some favorite tools at CES 2020 that populate a lovely portfolio of products to help consumer and clinicians address the many facets of cardiac care — for prevention, chronic management, and stress reduction. These are shown in the chart here:

On the wrist, the Withings ScanWatch, to address AFib and heart rhythm.

On the wrist and arm, the .Omron Complete, a personal heart health coach combining the app with the HeartGuide blood pressure watch and EKG reader.

On/in the ear, the Valencell blood pressure sensor hearable.

In the mirror, the Care OS ecosystem integrating CardioComm for ECG monitoring coupled with a smart mirror.

On the floor, the Mateo bathmat that is a scale-in-a-rug that’s pretty smart.

Smart clothing (as wearable tech), covered by Myant’s connected clothing platform addressing heart health and rehabilitation (with the tagline, “Transforming Human Connectedness Through Textile Computing

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Diagnostics, represented by Last Gadget Standing winner for CES 2020, MedWand — “a doctor’s visit at a patient’s fingertips” — bolstering patient engagement in-between physician visits.

Finally, SingFit positions its product and services as “music-as-medicine,” and brings music therapy to CES 2020. The program is featured in the AARP Showcase of tech focused on the Longevity Economy and healthy aging. There’s a growing evidence base that music bolsters health and cognitive function, and can lower stress.

These are just some (IMHO excellent) examples of tools that consumers can use for self-care to bolster heart health at home and in the community to “make health” and conserve scarce healthcare system resources — along with potentially reducing costs for their households and for the larger health system and payors. This area of heart health is but one use case for the Internet of Healthy Things at Home, baking wellness into our homes as health hubs which I advocate in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

Note that Cigna and Humana both had a visible presences at CES 2020. It takes a village to manage health (and especially heart health). A growing portfolio of evidence-based tools will put health into peoples’ hands, engage people in self-care, and in aggregate, build healthy cities and more productive economies.

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