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Health Care Reform — Where Do We Go from Here?

"Interpreting Hazards: The Increasing Importance of "Antidote to Anecdote" in Managed Care" by Fairman et al

"Is "Value-Based" Value Wasted? Examining Value-Based Insurance Designs Through the Lens of Cost-Effectiveness" by Melnick et al

58% of Surgeries Performed in Hospitals are Outpatient, According to AHRQ/HCUP survey.

AHRQ Introduces New Online Technical Tutorial Series With First Module on HCUP Sample Design

Doctors Face 21% Cut In Medicare Payments.

AMCP Issues Summary of White House Health Care Reform Summit

Maximus To Continue Reviewing Medicare Part D Plan Coverage Determinations

Pharmacoeconomics to Get Bigger Budgets, According to Preliminary Survey Results (Source=Marketwire)

Healthcare Rationing by Proxy: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and the Misuse of the $50,000 Threshold in the US by Bridges et al.

The AMCP Format for Formulary Submissions, Version 3.0

Statistical Data Resources from AMCP for benchmarking in managed care

UnitedHealthcare has launched an innovative program that offers $20 discounts off certain prescription drug co-payments

Healthcare Technology News: National Health Expenditures Top 17% of GDP

UnitedHealthcare Creates Adult National Cancer Care Registry with Data and Analysis to Support Oncologists in the Fight against Cancer

Novartis’s Afinitor Cancer Drug Rejected by U.K. Cost Agency

NEJM: “Giving Teeth to Comparative-Effectiveness Research — The Oregon Experience” by Saha et al.

Oncology Innovative Pricing deal with NICE on lung cancer drug

“Medication Adherence and Enrollment in a Consumer-Driven Health Plan” by Chen,

FDA News: NICE Outlines Appeals Process for Drug Determinations

IBI: More Than Health Promotion: How Employers Manage Health and Productivity

PR Hub: NICE Recommends Approval of New Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Treatment Cimzia(R) (certolizumab pegol) With First of its Kind RA Patient Access Scheme

Healthcare Technology News: Privacy Survey - In Providers We Trust

NEJM article: ‘ Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover’ by K. Baicker and A. Chandra

NEJM article: ‘ “Play-or-Pay” Insurance Reforms for Employers — Confusion and Inequity’ by B. Herring and M.V. Pauly

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: Cost-effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity: a modelling study

Do Health Politicians Really Listen to Health Economists? Observations from Europe by Mittendorf et al.

The Hospitalist: Evidence-Based Medicine Curveball

Health Care Reform and the Need for Comparative-Effectiveness Research

January 2010 Newsletter and Eisenberg Conference Series 2009 Are Now Available

Disease Management Care Blog: 10 Predictions for the Next Decade

Managed Care Vendor Sales Insight Article: Blue Cross Plans Join Initiative To Increase Transparency

Conference: Patient Experience and Patient Safety Culture, April 19-21

Funny Pharmacy Videos. These are Hysterical! Particularly "The PharmG's - Boom Intervention" Rap

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databases

Advantage Suite®
From Medstat, Web-enabled decision support tool linked to a comprehensive, integrated warehouse of medical claims and encounter data, pharmaceutical drug utilization, eligibility information, and performance measures.
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Agency mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.
AHRQ Snapshots of State-by-State Healthcare Quality
including strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement, with expanded emphasis on asthma.
AMA Physician Select
From AMA, this is an on-line "doctor finder" providing information on virtually every licensed physician in the US.
Ambulatory Care Experiences Survey
Overview, how to use, etc.
Ambulatory Care, Hospitalization, and Mortality Data
Links to HCUPS, MEPS, NHDS, etc.
AMCP eDossier System
The AMCP eDossier System is a centralized, secure, web-based platform, that provides qualified health care decision makers the opportunity to easily access, review, and evaluate research to make informed, evidence-based decisions.
American Hospital Directory
The American Hospital Directory provides on-line data for over 6,000 hospitals, derived from MedPAR and OPPS (Medicare claims data), hospital cost reports, and other files from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Benefit Design Modeler for Employers
Modeling tool — Medstat Modeler® — allows you to confidently make benefit design decisions specific to the appropriateness of your employee base. The basis for the model is data from the Medstat proprietary MarketScan® Database, a market-leading benchmarking and research database. Using actual claims cost and use experience, industry group, enrollee age/gender, and geographic distribution, we tailor the modeling results to your specific healthcare experience.
Blue Cross Plans Join In Initiative To Increase Transparency
Six Blue Cross plans around the country have joined to collaborate on providing online access to a health care cost information tool called "Care Comparison". Organizers of the effort say the easy-to-access, online tool, will serve more than 48 million consumers who will have access to cost information. (Source: Managed Care Information Center, Nov. 17, 2009)
Book: The Compendium of Health Statistics, 18th Edition, 2007
(Radcliffe Publishing) By Emma Hawe The OHE Compendium of Health Statistics is the one-stop statistical source specially designed for easy use by anyone interested in the UK health care sector and the NHS. It contains over 300 simple, easy-to-read tables and charts and provides a wide range of information on UK health and health care, demography, expenditure and major illness in a single volume. It also includes long time series and comparisons with other economically developed nations. The UK data are broken down into England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and contain annual figures from as far back as 1949 (the first full year of the NHS). ISPOR member price: £319.20 (a 20% savings) ISBN#9781846192128 Enter Code: ISPOR To order, please email: www.radcliffe-oxford.com
Bureau of Primary Health Care (US)
A core set of information appropriate for monitoring and evaluating health center performance and reporting on trends is collected through UDS. UDS collects basic demographic information on populations served, such as race/ethnicity and insurance status of patients, birth outcomes, etc. Reported by the following groups: Community Health Center; Migrant Health Center; Health Care for the Homeless; Public Housing Primary Care;and any section 330 funded Health Center
CAHPS Database Online
The National CAHPS Benchmarking Database is the national repository for data from the CAHPS (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) family of surveys. The CAHPS Database invites you to a live demonstration of a new online interactive system for reporting comparative CAHPS survey results.
CAHPS Database's new online reporting system
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has posted the 2009 CAHPS Health Plan Survey Database results on the new online reporting system. Funded by AHRQ and administered by Westat through the CAHPS User Network, this online reporting system is free to the public. The reporting system presents National summary-level results for the commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare sectors for the years 2009 and 2008. Users will be able to: * View frequencies (one-way or two-way) for individual survey items. * View results for composites, ratings and individual survey items in bar chart or tables. * View trend results for composites, ratings and individual survey items for the two most recent years of survey data. * Build your own custom downloadable report with the report builder feature.
Cancer Facts & Figures 2007
Downloadable files. Presents data on cancer incidence, mortality, survival, cancer risk factors, and annual estimates of expected new cases and deaths. Special section on Cancer-related Pain
CancerMPact
CancerMPact® is the global oncology resource from KantarHealth to provide you with all aspects of strategic planning, market analysis, and identification of commercial opportunities. It contains integrated modules – Patient Metrics, Emerging Technologies, Treatment Architecture, and Treatment Evolution – and is available for the U.S., EU, and Japan.
CancerNFluence
CancerNFluence® goes beyond international and national-level thought leaders to identify physicians wielding significant influence at the local and regional levels, where the larger volume of cancer patients are treated. It helps you create a competitive advantage by incorporating publication history, peer nominations, and competitive data that is powerful, easy-to-use, and immediately accessible online. From KantarHealth.
CaPSURE Database
Accessed through ISPOR website. CaPSURE (Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor)is a longitudinal observational study of prostate cancer patients nationwide.
CareScience Client Patient Database
Noe a part of Premier Healthcare Alliance. The database contains patient level UB92 data with detailed resources that encompass all billable items including detailed pharmacy utilization. This database also contains detailed patient flow through the hospital via the storage of detailed ADT (Admission, Discharge and Transfer) information. The database also has been risk adjusted using the CareScience algorithms that provide the following: - LOS Outcome deviations - Mortality Outcome deviations - Complication assignment and outcome deviations - Morbidity assignment and outcome deviations - Cost and Charge Outcome deviations
CDC WONDER
GREAT SITE! WONDER provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data. Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research -- an easy-to-use, menu-driven system.
CEA Data Sources
Links to: *Data on the cost of medical goods and services. *Data used to calculate ambulatory care, hospitalization, and mortality rates. *Incidence and prevalence of diseases. *Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL). *Sites that provide access to multiple datasets. *Population Data (US Bureau of the Census)
CEA Registry Blog
Tufts and the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health just launched the CEA Registry Blog. Recent postings include updates on the CEA Registry, discussion of measuring the value of public health systems, among other things.
Census Data for 2000, Population, Income, Race data
Click here and download the pdf file.
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Data Compendium
Want to know the cost of a particular laboratory test? Want to know what Medicare pays for provider visits (a good proxy for the overall cost of an ambulatory care visit)? This site is nightmarish, so be patient. Gives cost of diseases, incidences, etc. but requires managing ZIP files, etc.
Centre for reviews & Dissemination
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination is a department of the University of York and is part of the National Institute for Health Research. CRD undertakes high quality systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health and social care interventions and the delivery and organisation of health care. CRD maintains 3 databases: DARE, NHS EED and the HTA. DARE contains 15,000 abstracts of systematic reviews including over 6,000 quality assessed reviews and details of all Cochrane reviews and protocols. NHS EED contains 24,000 abstracts of health economics papers including over 7,000 quality assessed economic evaluations.HTA brings together details of over 8,000 completed and ongoing health technology assessments from around the world
CME Mall
Comprehensive online source for information about the Continuing Medical Education (CME) events in USA. It features extensive chronological listings of future medical meetings so that you can make informed choices within a selective time period and in his/her specialty and areas of interest.Each listing contains the sponsoring organization, the topic or title of the meeting, contact numbers for further information and registration opportunities. Also a direct link to the CME page of the sponsoring organization is given.
Cochrane Collaboration
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH)
Essential site for any therapeutic area you are working on. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types: (1) Complete reviews - Regularly updated Cochrane Reviews, prepared and maintained by Collaborative Review Groups;(2)Protocols - Protocols for reviews currently being prepared. Protocols are the background, objectives and methods of reviews in preparation.
Cochrane Library
Contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.
Community Health Status Indicators Project Health Resources Services Administration, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
3,082 reports of health status indicators, one for each county in the nation. (Note: Data retired as of October 11, 2002)
Community Tracking Study - Center for Studying Health System Change
Community Reports provide information and insights about developments in the 12 communities that HSC is studying intensively over time to better understand the changing health system and variations across markets. The Center for Studying Health System Change is a nonpartisan research organization and “seeks to provide objective, incisive analyses that lead to sound policy and management decisions, with the ultimate goal of improving the health of the American public.
Comorbidity Database
The Comorbidity Database™ is designed to help clients make strategic decisions based on an in-depth understanding of the importance of mutually exclusive and overlapping conditions, expanding the potential of pharmaceutical product development. It consists of two modules: Comorbidity Database™ - CNS 2.0, which focuses on mental health disorders, and Comorbidity Database™ - Med 2.0, which features a broad range of medical diagnosis and risk factors. From KantarHealth.
Consumer Expenditure Survey - Bureau of Labor Statistics
Details of consumer health care expenditures
Consumer Price Index
CPI database, inflation calculator, etc.
Consumer Reports Health: Drug Effectiveness Review Project
Consumer Reports publication "Best Buy Drugs (or Best Drugs For Less)" which rates 200 Rx and OTC drugs on efficacy and cost, using an "unbiased review of the best scientific evidence available". They work closely with experts at Drug Effectiveness Review Project, part of the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
Cost Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry
Provides public electronic access to a comprehensive database of cost-effectiveness ratios in the published literature. Its goals are to find opportunities for targeting resources to save lives and improve health and to move towards standardization of cost-effectiveness methodology in the field.
Cost effectiveness thresholds
Information on the threshold values used in CHOICE analyses for the relative CE of an intervention in current international dollars of 2000 for 14 countries. Following the recommendations of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, CHOICE uses gross domestic product (GDP) as a readily available indicator to derive the following three categories of cost-effectiveness: Highly cost-effective (less than GDP per capita); Cost-effective (between one and three times GDP per capita); and Not cost-effective (more than three times GDP per capita)
Current Population Survey – U.S. Census Bureau
Annual Demographic Survey (March CPS Supplement) includes health insurance coverage.
Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
“The Atlas project brings together researchers in diverse disciplines - including epidemiology, economics, and statistics - and focuses on the accurate description of how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States.
Data Probe
Investigative data analysis and decision support system, which runs on Microsoft® Windows workstations and servers, used to manage and analyze large volumes of detailed health data.
Data User’s Reference Guide* - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
The purpose of the Data Users Reference Guide is to introduce health care data users to the Medicare and Medicaid program data maintained by CMS.” Details of raw data files, intended for use by researchers and analysts.
Data/Trends from Managed Care Digest
Very interesting, rich site: Click on the different tabs for access to market overview slides by therapeutic area, HMO industry overview, prescription drug costs, etc.
Diabetes Health Economics Resources
Compiled by Thomas Songer, University of Pittsburg. The compilations of papers, cost estimates, and studies vary in their timeliness.
DiabetesDynamics
DiabetesDynamics is a quarterly diary survey that tracks physician treatment of type 2 diabetes, identifying prescribing changes across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US. DiabetesDynamics tracks each brand’s prescribing market share and identifies what drives physicians’ brand prescribing decisions so that you can evaluate and measure actual prescribing practice against your and your competitors’ brands’ positioning. It lets you understand—and respond to—the full range of prescribing changes, including initiations, switches, add-ins and withdrawals and also quantifies the impact of new launches, competitive activities or other market events. From Kantar Health.
Directory of Data Resources* - Department of Health and Human Services
A compilation of information about virtually all major data collection systems sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Directory of Physician Groups & Networks
Online directory of IPAs, medical group practices, PHOs, practice management companies and management service organizations. Official directory of the IPA Association of America, published by Dorland Healthcare Information.
Discussion Lists on Evidence Based Medicine: How to join
WWW directory page on Evidence-based Health related discussion lists. Helps the busy professional learn how to sign up for the proliferation of email discussion lists. Each entry has the name of the list, the joining instructions and a description of its purpose together with any entry criteria.
Disease & Therapy Review (DTR) Database
Disease & Therapy Review is meant to be an accurate and efficient executive synopsis of the indications that IPD users look up most frequently. Each report includes epidemiology from the IPD (Incidence and Prevalence Database), treatment data and charts, market data and drug cost when available. The reports are collaboration between our epidemiological specialists and senior market research analysts who each have over 15 years of experience. Disease & Therapy Review will include 85-100 reports by October 2007. From TDR.
Disease Benchmarks
Disease-specific national and regional benchmarks of total resource utilization across the continuum of patient care, costs, units of use and services utilized. Contains de-identified? longitudinal, patient-level medical and pharmacy claims data gathered from more than 66 healthcare plans across the United States, and comprising data on more than 50 million unique participants.
DrugPipelineForecast
DrugPipelineForecast™ is a tool developed specifically for managed care professionals to address their unique needs. This is a site which can help you track late-phase pipeline:*Products in late phase III to approval stages * All types of information for an in-depth review * Tabulated format for a quick analysis * Search and filtering capabilities * Default and customized reports * Frequent updates
Drugs.com
Medical reference website for health professionals and patients.
Emergency Room Database
The Emergency Room Database provides the top drugs prescribed, diagnostics provided, providers seen, visit characteristics, payment source and more for over 2,000 diseases. From TDR.
Employer-Sponsored Single, Employee-Plus-One, and Family Health Insurance Coverage: Selection and Cost, 2008
MEPS Statistical Brief gives great data on health insurance costs for families, individuals, employees, etc. The cost to insure a family of 4 in the US with an employer-sponsored health plan is $12,298 in 2008. (Source: AHRQ / MEPS, Statistical Brief #251, July 2009)
EPC Topics in Progress
A list of topics for which work has begun on evidence reports from the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) from AHRQ.
Epi Database
Epi Database® is the premier online database that provides well-researched, documented, and comprehensive epidemiology. With more than 190 indications, it covers France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States. In-depth analyses are projected through 2030, making it the trusted source of epidemiology estimates for major product decisions. From KantarHealth.
Epi Database – BRIC
Epi Database – BRIC is an online database containing the epidemiological profiles of approximately 85 indications in Brazil, Russia, India, and China. It is designed to provide easy and rapid data access, manipulation, and export, and it contains epidemiological estimates from 1995 through 2030. From KantarHealth
ESRNexus
TrialStat's ESRNexus (electronic systematic review nexus), a publicly searchable online coded reference library. ESRNexus is designed to facilitate and promote the reuse of data that has been manually extracted from reference materials such as journal articles during the conduct of systematic reviews that have used TrialStat's SRS tool. References in the database are searchable in a manner similar to the United States National Library of Medicine's PubMed database, but in addition to standard fields, ESRNexus references also contain coded fields for all of the data to help improve the precision of searches. ESRNexus represents a significant collaborative undertaking by the research community to build the world's most comprehensive library of summarized reference material in the areas of human medicine, pharmacoeconomics, social and demographic research and veterinary medicine. The ESRNexus Library contains over 17 Million References and Clinical Trial Listings with contributions from the National Library of Medicine and participants throughout the research community.
Evidence Hub
From United BioSource Corp. EvidenceHub® is UBC's online relational database containing comprehensive data compiled from systematic reviews of published medical literature from over 7,000 studies and 6 million patients. Powered by UBC's proprietary data warehouse MetaHub®, EvidenceHub® is an online application that provides access to data from customized client projects, as well as standard disease or therapeutic-specific data sets. EvidenceHub® allows researchers to access and organize vast amounts of data that have been systematically reviewed. The database can be leveraged to gain insight to specified medical topics by drilling down into specific areas of interest, filtering, sorting, reporting, and exporting data into customizable formats.
Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) Guidelines
Unique, concise and easy-to-use collection of clinical guidelines for primary care combined with the best available evidence. Continuously updated EBM Guidelines follows the latest developments in clinical medicine and brings evidence into practice. Searchable database
Evidence-based Medicine: meta site
WOW and Great Site! Comprehensive site with links to resources for evidence-based medicine. Click on L"ibrary": Many links to articles on how to evaluate. "Organizations" link is full of great information. "Questionnaires" link provides evidence-based medicine evaluation tools.
Expansion of Quality of Care Measures (Q-SPAN)
AHRQ Project designed to strengthen the science base of quality measurement while expanding the scope and availability of validated, ready-to-use measures. Q-SPAN builds on past work in quality measurement by public and private organizations through eight cooperative agreements to develop and test additional clinical performance measures for specific conditions, patient populations, and health care settings.
Expert Health Data Programming, Inc.
Provides Vitalnet software for analyzing and disseminating health statistics/data sets to run on desktop or web browser. Makes tables, charts, maps, stats.
Express Scripts
More than 50 million members, rich and diverse database on drug usage and demographics, and a history of partnering with pharmaceutical companies.
Fastats from Nat
QuickStats (from CDC/NCHS) ranging from Alzheimers to Work Loss Days. Key state data available too. Get email updates on relevant areas. Linkds to NHANES, NCHS, NHIS, NIS, LSOA, NSFG, SLAITS
Fedstats
Gateway to statistics from over 100 agencies. Sort by health and get links to AHRQ, CDC, CMS, etc. etc.
Forecast Architect
Forecast Architect® is a proprietary Excel-based forecasting tool that allows clients to spend more time on the underlying forecast drivers and assumptions and less time on model construction and mathematical calculations. It offers unsurpassed flexibility to add events to forecasts, turn events on and off, and create scenarios that enable clients to ascertain the impact of certain market events or competitive actions on a forecast and weigh the consequences of different courses of action. From KantarHealth.
Generic Life Table
Download tables. CAUTION: discounting error in Tables 9.4 and 9.5. The corrected tables can be found here.: http://www.pceo.org/about.html
Glossary of Terms on Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics - maintained by the University of Groningen, the Netherlands
HealthEconomics.nl is an open collaboration and aims to provide a free, comprehensible and open knowledgebase for Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics. Its main purpose is to provide background information on economic evaluations of healthcare interventions (such as cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-utility analysis) to policy- and decision makers, students, researchers and healthcare workers in the field of healthcare, as well as the general public.
Hayes, Inc.: Evidence-based health technology assessment research
Hayes, Inc. provides evidence-based health technology assessments, education and consulting services. Hayes is an independent health technology research and consulting company whose core business is performing unbiased, evidence-based health technology assessments of the safety and efficacy of new, emerging and controversial health technologies. Hayes evaluates the impact of these technologies on healthcare quality, utilization and cost. Sample reports are available for free at www.hayesinc.com.
HCMS Employer Dataset
Employer data on absenteeism, productivity, WC, STD, LTD, healthcare costs, payroll, etc. Excellent data source for conducting assessment of indirect costs or employer based demonstration work
HCMS Human Capital Management Services
Health information service business; has database with Payroll Data; Attendance, Absence and Disability Data; Workers Compensation Data; Health Plan Data, including Drug Safety Data, when available Individual Health & Productivity Data. Also provides consulting services to employers not large enough for database services, and includes technical assistance in health benefits design and implementation, and human capital risk management training.
HCUP
AHRQ has released its 2007 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS)—the most powerful, all-payer emergency department database in the United States developed from data from over 120 million emergency department (ED) visits at more than 1,000 community hospitals. NEDS can be used be study a range of issues, including the cost of emergency care, medical treatment effectiveness, and the quality of, access to, and use of emergency department care.
HCUP data: direct access
This will take you directly to the data you want.
HCUPnet
Quick Links for data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). Click here for access to: *National Statistics on All Stays *National Statistics on Mental Health Hospitalizations *State Statistics on All Stays *National Statistics on Children *National and State Statistics on Hospital Stays by Payer (Medicare, Medicaid, Private, Uninsured) *Quick National or State Statistics (inpatient sample, etc.)
HCUPnet– Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
national statistics and trends and selected State statistics about hospital stays.
Health Care Databases
The Euro Surgical and Euro Diagnostic Database contain 460 procedure volumes available for the Euro Big 5 countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain & UK). Specialties include Cardio/Peripheral Vascular, ENT, General Surgery, Neuro/Spine, Ob/Gyn, Ophtamology, Orthopedics, Plastic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery & Urology. Easy to use: Excel format and ICD-9 codes and definitions are used as reference for standardizing the databases. Databases are yearly updated. Customized data research is available on request. From TforG Direct
Health Care Demographics
Health Care Demographics Database is available for 26 countries in EMEA and BRIC. Includes HC Statistics on country level (# hospitals, # acute beds, OR Data, ER Data, ICU Data, GDP, etc). Statistics are delivered with a powerpoint presentation "Country Context" which provides information on the Economic profile, Health Care Systems, Purchasing Decision Unit & Market Landscape. From TforG Direct
Health Data Services Corp.
One person operation providing database acquisition services among US claims database, EMRs, hospital detail data and data from Europe
Health INFLATION.com
Monthly update of medical care inflation. Use for pricing policy, negotiating contracts, monitoring trends, forecasting
Health Research Data for the Real World: the MarketScan Databases
Medstat white paper; click on this link to receive a copy
Health Services and Sciences Research Resources*** - National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
Searchable database of information about research datasets and instruments/indices. Includes description of and links to resources. Very useful finding aid.
Health Services Research Internet Sites National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
Selected HSR Web Sites - see especially Health Policy and Economics and also Data Sets and Data Sources
Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles
HiT profiles seek to provide relevant information to support policy-makers and analysts in the development of health systems in Europe. They are building blocks that can be used: * to learn in detail about different approaches to the organization, financing and delivery of health services and the role of the main actors in health systems;* to describe the institutional framework, the process, content and implementation of health care reform programmes; * to highlight challenges and areas that require more in-depth analysis; and * to provide a tool for the dissemination of information on health systems and the exchange of experiences of reform strategies between policy-makers and analysts in different countries.
Health United States 2009 Report
Health, United States, 2009 (with special emphasis on Medical Technology) is the 33rd report on the health status of the United States, prepared by Dept. HHS. The 2009 Chartbook includes 36 charts, with 14 charts illustrating medical technology. There are also 150 trend tables organized around four major subject areas: health status and determinants, health care utilization, health care resources, and health care expenditures. Disability and income/education data are included.
Health, United States, 2005 with Chartbook on Trends in Health
From CDC, NCHS, and HHS, contains tables on health. 2006 coming soon.
Health, United States, 2007
Trends in various health measures from CDC, NCHS, HHS
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, 1988-1994
Download the data! Both databases contain patient-level information for inpatient hospital stays using national sample of about 900 hospitals. The State Inpatient Database (SID) covers inpatient care in community hospitals in 12 States that represent nearly half of all U.S. hospital discharges.
Healthcare Data Warehousing and Clinical Intelligence
Recombinant builds reliable data warehouses and reporting systems that integrate the complex clinical concepts of evidence-based medicine to transform healthcare data into meaningful, actionable views, including views for C-level executives who need metrics to support P4P performance, board-level reports and Joint Commission accreditation
Healthy People 2000 (National Center for Health Statistics)
Downloadable file includes 26 objectives based on mortality data. State-level mortality for five population subgroups; Numbers of deaths. Data are also presented for HIV-related mortality.
Healthy People 2010
Healthy People 2010 challenges individuals, communities, and professionals, indeed all of us to take specific steps to ensure that good health, as well as long life, are enjoyed by all. This includes leading indicators, guidelines, etc.
HEED - the Health Economic Evaluations Database
Contains information on studies of cost-effectiveness and other forms of economic evaluation of medicines and other treatments and medical interventions. HEED currently contains 34,000 references, is updated monthly (approximately 300 references being added each month)
HHS Measure Inventory
HHS Measure Inventory is an inventory of the measures that are currently being used by the Divisions in HHS for quality measurement, improvement, and reporting. The Department's goal is to further advance collaboration among members of the quality community and to advance the effective use and harmonization of quality of care measures. This is the first time a comprehensive list of quality measures used by the Department has been posted in a single location.
Hospital Caliper
From Thomson Medstat provides a trusted single source point of reference to easily see which hospitals in an area perform best on key NQF-endorsed measures and determine how local hospitals compare on key effectiveness and efficiency measures.
Hospital Compare
Includes Medicare Payment and Volume data. Medicare.gov offers databases on a variety of health care provider categories, including physician, home care, and hospital. Each of this is searchable by geography and teatment effectivness. (Source: Medicare.gov, Nov 2009)
Hospital Inpatient Profiles (HIP) Database
he Hospital Inpatient Profiles (HIP) provides the top 6 related diseases and procedures, payment source, discharge status and more for over 7,100 diseases and procedures. From TDR.
Hospital Outpatient Profiles (HOP) Database
The Hospital Outpatient Profiles (HOP) provides top drugs prescribed, diagnostics provided, providers seen, visit characteristics, payment source, disposition, and more for over 2,400 diseases. From TDR.
HospitalBenchmarks.com (Part of Ingenix)
View and print reports based on your specific requirements. With HospitalBenchmarks.com you have the ability to search on hospital name, hospital provider number, state, city, zip code, or a combination of any of these terms
HTAinSite
Abacus International launched this online database, which contains a summary of the clinical and cost effectiveness evidence base reviewed by NICE along with headline recommendations. Quickly find previous guidance with simple search engine, review statistical summary of approval rates and factors that affect them, print a report containing primary headline guidance for each TA and product, and more.
ICD-10 Implementation Should begin by January 18, 2010
The timeline was developed by the NCHICA-WEDI Timeline Initiative, a collaboration of provider, health plan and vendor representatives serving on several workgroups. It details the steps and time required for each industry segment (providers, plans and vendors) to effectively implement this major change in how the healthcare industry identifies diagnoses and inpatient hospital procedures. (Source: Healthcare Technology News, Aug. 10, 2009)
ICD-9 Download
Include the entire text of ICD-9-CM by year, up to 2007
Improving Patients' Experiences: How Primary Care and Specialty Practices Are Using the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey
This Webcast offered an inside look at the efforts of two medical practices—one primary care and one specialty—to improve their performance in the areas of quality measured by the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey. (Source: Dr. Finn & Martinez, UCLA Dept of Medicine, AHRQ, September 2009)
IMS: Top-line Industry Data
IMS reports on top biopharma products by sales and Rx as well as top companies.
Incidence and Prevalence Database (IPD)
4,500 diseases and procedures, monthly updates, hard data (original sources) for incidence, prevalence, mortality, morbidity, comorbidities and many other health issues. From Timely Data Resources, Inc. (TDR).
IndiaHealthStat.Com
India(n) health statistics
Indian Health Service
Provides vital event, demographic, social, and economic statistics on American Indians and Alaska Natives living in IHS service areas, as well as patient care and morbidity information for those who use IHS services.
Innovative Pricing Agreements to Enhance Access Prospects
This PDF summarizes a 2009 Brussels Conference on these types of pricing schemes (eg, Price/Volume, Expenditure Caps, Price Cuts, Conditional Discounts), with emphasis on Europe. Contains nice table with examples of schemes by drug/country. (Source: IMS Pharma Pricing and Reimbursement, August 2009)
Integrated Research Network from HealthCore
Multidimensional platform which is structured to combine aspects of traditional retrospective and prospective study designs with data obtained from physicians' offices, diagnostic laboratories and additional administrative data sets in the pursuit of "real world solutions" to clinical research and health outcomes research studies. Clinical studies span the full range of methodology from simple surveys, to registries, to complex phase 2-4 pharmacologic studies.
International Digest of Health Care Cost Databases
The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) has developed an electronic index (Digest) of key attributes of health care databases around the world available at the ISPOR website, which is accessible to the public. The digest is grouped by country and allows key word searches and searches by type of database. (Source: ISPOR, Nov 2009)
International Drug Price Atlas
Love this site! Click on the map for where you want a price for a drug - worldwide
ISPOR Global Systems Health Care Roadmap
An overview of country-specific health care delivery systems focusing on reimbursement and pricing approval processes for pharmaceuticals, which includes validated decision models that define decision makers and the decision-making processes for coverage, reimbursement, and pricing. (Source: ISPOR, Nov 2009)
ISPOR HEALTH ECONOMETRICS & HEALTH OUTCOMES STATISTICS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
The HEWG leadership group is developing an index of free online pharmacoeconomic & outcomes research software including health econometric code for statistical applications for the ISPOR website. (Source: ISPOR)
ISPOR Health Outcomes Research Index of Open Source Code
The primary purposes of the ISPOR Health Outcomes Research Index of Open Source Code are to promote estimator transparency and to clarify alternative approaches in health econometric research. Estimator transparency refers to open source code, where all relevant code is accessible, interpretable, operational, and modifiable for alternative use. This Index of Open Source Code is composed of brief descriptions and hyperlinks to open-source code that can be downloaded for free [at the time of publication in this index]. Proprietary code and code for in silico experiments (e.g., simulations) are excluded from the index. The Index of Open Source Code is arranged according to Topic [Treatment Effects, Health Costs, Health Care Utilization, Quality of Life and Utility, Censoring and Survival, Other], Sub-Topics as given below and Base Software.
ISPOR Managed Care Outcomes Research Digest
Database of abstracts and citations for outcomes research papers on managed care services. This database can be searched by the type of managed care service provided (disease management, drug benefit design, drug formulary, drug utilization review, home infusion therapy, patient education, pharmaceutical services, provider practice management), by the outcomes assessed (clinical, economic, quality of life, and compliance/persistence, or by key word such as author. This database was developed by the ISPOR Managed Care Research Digest Working Group of the ISPOR Managed Care Special Interest Group.
Managed Care Digest Series (from Sanofi Aventis)
Provides detailed statistical information for several key health care markets.
Managed Care Information Center
Clearinghouse for healthcare executives' managed care information needs by publishing newsletters, advisories, jobs, guides, manuals, special reports and books.
Map of Medicine Uses Evidence-Based Medicine to Help Physicians
Map of Medicine Uses Evidence-Based Medicine to Help Physicians with care pathways, with major focus on the role of pathology and laboratory results in diagnosis. (Source: Dark Daily, Nov. 16, 2009)
MarketScan Commercial
Claims and encounters database representing Americans age 65 and under with employer-sponsored insurance. Patients may be followed over time, across health plans, and across payers (private to Medicare). A subset of patients may be linked to productivity data and laboratory test results.
MarketScan Medicare Supplemental & COB Database; Medicaid database; Hospital Drug Database
Claims and encounters database representing Americans with Medicare and supplemental (MediGap) insurance. Patients may be followed over time, across health plans, and across payers (private to Medicare supplemental). A subset of patients may be linked to laboratory test results. Medicaid: Claims and encounters database representing Medicaid beneficiaries from select states (a more robust database is accessible through Medstat researchers). The population includes all eligibility types, Medicare dual eligibles, and Medicare managed care members. Patients may be followed longitudinally. The MarketScan Hospital Drug Database, derived primarily from hospital billing systems from over 550 hospitals, provides the most detailed and comprehensive data available for understanding hospital care, including drug utilization in the inpatient setting.
MCP Format Version 3 and related documents
he AMCP Format for Formulary Submissions is a set of guidelines, a template that drug companies can use to prepare submissions of new and existing pharmaceuticals for a health system's Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee. Previously, P&T Committees often received drug information passively from pharmaceutical manufacturers that was biased and of poor quality. In this era of dramatically increasing drug costs, biotechnology, and information availability, the Format empowers health systems to pro-actively request specific information from manufacturers that will allow them to more accurately determine the total value that a drug brings to their population as the basis for accepting or rejecting a drug for its formulary.
Med-eHUB
Said to revolutionize healthcare reimbursement research. Includes online healthcare economics access point and repository that includes drug preferences and reimbursement rates as determined by federal and state governments.
Med-eHub said to revolutionize healthcare reimbursement research
Includes online healthcare economics access point and repository that includes drug preferences and reimbursement rates as determined by federal and state governments
Medical Cost Reference Guide from BCBS
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association fourth annual Medical Cost Reference Guide: Facts and Trends to Support Knowledge-Driven Solutions. The guide provides information on trends in the healthcare industry from nationally recognized data sources.
Medical Episode Grouper
Medical Episode Grouper (MEG) uses risk-adjusted, disease-based methodology to allow users to group patients by clinically defined levels of severity and compare physicians while improving the overall quality of care. From Medstat
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
New Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) publications and data files here: * Characteristics of Uninsured Young Adults: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population 19-23 Years of Age, 2006. * 2007 Full Year Population Characteristics File (HC-107), the 2007 Job File (HC-108), and the HC-NHIS Link File for the 2007 MEPS/2006 & 2005 NHIS. * The 2007 Adult Self-Administered (SAQ) and 2007 Diabetes Care Survey (DCS) Questionnaires are now available.
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Download the data and the questionnaire! Nationally representative survey of health care use, expenditures, sources of payment, and insurance coverage for the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population, as well as a national survey of nursing homes and their residents. AHRQ survey is designed to yield comprehensive data that estimate the level and distribution of health care use and expenditures, monitor the dynamics of the health care delivery and insurance systems, and assess health care policy implications.
Medical Resource Reviews Database
This database contains reviews of electronic medical information resources available by any of the following means: browsable WWW sites, or downloadable datasets and software, or on CD-ROMS. References index is periodically computed for each site as the number of references from other sites. The resource types covered are: reference, learning materials, simulation. The areas covered are: Anatomy, Physiology, Internal Medicine, Physical Therapy, Exercise Therapy, Pharmacology, Dermatology, Dentistry, Acupuncture, Nursing, Gastroenterology, Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Urology, Pulmonology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology, Prevention, Naturopathy, Sports Medicine, Radiology, Lab, Psychology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Primary Care, Endocrinology.
MediQual
Clinical information business of Cardinal Health. Using laboratory results data coupled with data from billing systems, both of which are available electronically in most hospitals, achieves much greater accuracy in assessing quality and outcomes. It also provides information about the risk adjusted outcomes in a form that is readily comparable across hospitals.
MedMining - An EMR Data business serving pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research groups
MedMining, a Geisinger Health System business, offers custom, de-identified, EMR data extracts that represent the continuum of care provided at Geisinger. Geisinger, an integrated health system includes a 700+ multi-specialty physician group practice, 3 hospitals, 40 ambulatory clinics, a clinical reference laboratory, a non-exclusive health plan, and three dedicated research centers. Data, which have been systematically and electronically captured at Geisinger over the past 11+ years, reflect both inpatient and outpatient settings, detailed lab results, vital signs, medication orders, procedures, diagnoses, lifestyle data including smoking and employment status, and detailed actual costs at the encounter, hospital, physician, procedure, and medication level. Examples include tumor size, grade, stage, treatment and status; pulmonary data including spirometry/pulmonary function test results; osteoporosis data including BMD and T-scores; epilepsy data such as detailed EEG findings; and GI data such as endoscopy results based on commonly accepted severity scales.
Medmining Newsletter
New data elements available from MedMining (medical diagnostic tests, mortality data reconciled against SS death index, etc.).
MedPages Health Care Directory - South Africa
Contact information of South African health care providers and organisations
MEDPAR data
From Medicare: MEDPAR files contain information for 100% of Medicare beneficiaries using hospital inpatient services. Data is provided by state and then by DRG for all short stay and inpatient hospitals for fiscal years 2000-2003. The following fields are furnished: total charges, covered charges, Medicare reimbursement, total days, number of discharges and average total days. Data for PPS exempt hospitals and units has been grouped into DRGs for inclusion in these tables.
Medstat Ascent®
Addresses revenue cycle challenges across a facility's functional areas and provides a reimbursement calculator, denial event triggering technology, alert systems to monitor patient accounts, and managed care contract modeling capabilities.
Medstat Core Measures
Delivers timely, efficient, and cost-effective reporting to JCAHO, CMS, and other data aggregators.
Medstat Modeler
Medstat Modeler assists customers in making accurate, efficient decisions by quantifying the cost impact of proposed plan design changes, including co-pay, premiums, covered services, and benefit limits on costs to the organization and enrollees. * Modeler data is populated with information from the market-leading benchmarking database, Medstat MarketScan® * Provides an intuitive Excel-based interface and generates presentation-ready reports * Helps customers improve their capabilities to forecast expenses and project costs to compare budgets in determining variances * Can identify cost impacts of multiple scenarios in minutes, and run multiple design changes simultaneously
MEPS data files
This will take you directly to the data you want.
MEPS HC-112: 2007 Medical Conditions File
Released as an ASCII file (with SAS and SPSS programming statements, and also in SAS transport format), this public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2007. (Source: AHRQ -- MEPS, Nov. 2009)
MEPS HC-113: 2007 Full Year Consolidated Data File
This public use file (released as ASCII with SAS / SPSS statements)provides information collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States for calendar year 2007. (Source: AHRQ - MEPS Nov. 2009)
MEPS: Expenditures on Insurance
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: Expenditures on insurance (how much it costs)
MEPS: Five most costly children's conditions
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: Five most costly chidren's conditions
MEPS: healthcare costs for chronic conditions for non-elderly
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: Healthcare costs for chronic conditions for non-elderly
MEPS: Insurance Coverage
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: Insurance Coverage (who's covered)
MEPSnet: Interactive statistical tool
Developed to provide immediate access to data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) in a nonprogramming environment. Available online, MEPSnet is quick and easy to use, allowing even novice users the ability to generate national estimates in a few seconds.
Mortality Data from National Vital Statistics Section
Causes of death by year, region from NCHS
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Data reports by year
National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the principal agency that produces general-purpose health data. NCHS is responsible for the collection, maintenance, analysis, and dissemination of statistics on the nature and extent of the health, illness, and disability of the U.S. population; the impact of illness and disability on the economy; the effects of environmental, social, and other health hazards; health care costs and financing; family formation, growth, and dissolution; and vital events (i.e., births and deaths).
National Centre for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
National Directory of Healthcare Payors and Providers (for YOUR state)
From Health Resources Online, you get a CD in PDF format with state-specific directories for National Directory of Managed Care Organiations, National Directory of Health Systems, Hospitals and Their Affiliates, National Directory of Physician Organizations. You can buy for just one state. Cost is $285/state.
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents produced by the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality(AHRQ), in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP).
National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC)
A public resource from AHRQ and HHS for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. They have a "What's New this Week" that is very useful!
National Health and Wellness Survey
The National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS) is the largest self-reported patient database in the healthcare industry, with annual survey responses dating back to 1998 in the U.S., 2000 in Europe and from 2008 in Asia. NHWS provides disease-specific measures that help healthcare clients size market opportunities, measure direct and indirect costs, gain insight into specific patient segments and develop marketing and publication strategies. From Kantar Health, formerly Consumer Health Sciences.
National Home and Hospice Care Data
Public use files from NCHS
National Hospital Discharge Survey
Contains a smaller sample than the HCUP-3 dataset above, but the data are cross-validated using a sample of medical records.
National Nursing Home Survey
continuing series of nationally representative sample surveys of United States nursing homes, their services, their staff, and their residents.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC)
NQMC is a public repository for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets from AHRQ and HHS.
New Quality Data on Hospital Readmission Rates
New Quality Data on Hospital Readmission Rates now available on Hospital Compare Website. The issue of hospital readmissions has been cited by the policymakers and US Administration as a potential opportunity for improving health care quality and reducing unnecessary health care spending. Until now, hospitals have had only information on those patients who return to their own hospital, but not about patients who were readmitted to a different hospital.
NQMC: Envisioning the Next Generation of Performance Measures for Ambulatory Care
Some of the simple measures used for determining quality of care in the United States have been able to provide valid comparisons for large groups of people while also improving the quality of care, but they also have limitations. (Source: Stephen D. Purcell, NQMC, October 2009)
OASIS
OASIS- Online Analytical Statistical Information System of the Georgia Division of Public Health. A web based tool for Public Health and public policy analysis. The site includes many sources of relevant content, mapping to census tract level and demographic profiling.
OHSU: Drug Effectiveness Reveiw Project
Drug Effectiveness Review Project homepage.
Oncology Electronic Medical Records
From United BioSource Corp. Through a strategic partnership with Varian Medical Systems, UBC has access to real-world oncology patient electronic medical records collected from cancer clinics across the United States. Varian's Oncology EMR database, VARiS MedOncology™ Patient Manager, includes individual patient records from outpatient cancer clinics across the United States. The database captures routine patient care and treatment administration on each patient without patient identifying information. The data are updated weekly, and include patient demographics, treatment regimens, test results, treatment outcomes, patient side effects, and concomitant illnesses and allergies.
Oncology Index for Managed Care
The Zitter Group’s new Managed Care Oncology Index focuses on both payers and oncology practices, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the major trends underway in the evolving payer market for oncology. This unique study offers pharmaceutical marketers insight into trends in physician reimbursement, product selection, practice profitability, patient access, and how managed care organizations plan to pursue oncology cost-cutting.
Oncology Market Access Europe
Oncology Market Access Europe, Third Edition provides ongoing, timely information to market access, pricing and reimbursement, and marketing and sales professionals so they can successfully operate in the increasingly scrutinized and regulated oncology marketplace in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Country-specific modules provide a country overview and description of the healthcare system followed by detailed research and analysis of the oncology sales environment. From KantarHealth.
Oncology Market Access U.S.
Oncology Market access U.S., Seventh Edition provides leading-edge research and analysis on critical reimbursement, pricing, and competitive issues affecting the cancer drug market in the United States. This annual subscription includes direct access to our cancer marketing analytics team as well as ongoing live briefings covering the most pressing issues for manufacturers of oncology drugs. From KantarHealth.
Outcomes Research Digest
The ISPOR OUTCOMES RESEARCH DIGEST is an electronic database of research papers presented at ISPOR Annual International Meetings, ISPOR Annual European Congresses, ISPOR Asia-Pacific Conferences, and ISPOR Latin America Conferences from 1998 to date. (Source: ISPOR, Nov 2009)
Patient Outcomes Profiles (POP) Database
Physician Office Profiles (POP), tracks physician office activity for the top diagnoses. Patient utilization information can be accessed conveniently by keyword or by ICD code. Each record includes discharge data, patient characteristics, visit characteristics, payment source, top ten medications prescribed, diagnostic/screening services provided, procedures prescribed, disposition, and more. From TDR.
Patient Safety Expert
Medstat Patient Safety Expert® offers an end-to-end solution that maximizes the power of a patient safety program comprising an easy-to-use event recorder, workflow and reporting capabilities, and root cause analysis functionality.
PatientCareAnalyst
Online business intelligence tools combined with federal and statewide all payer data sets.
PatientViewpoint: a website for patient-reported outcomes assessment
Interesting article in Qual Life Res Jnl by Snyder et al. re developing a prototype website to collect patient-reported outcomes in outpatient clinical oncology and link the data with the electronic medical record (EMR). Article entitled
Payers of Emergency Department Care, 2006
Four in ten ER visits are paid by Public Insurance a conclusion reached in this statisitcal brief. (Source: Statistical Brief #77. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). July 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.)
Pediatric Economic Database Evaluation
Paediatric Economic Database Evaluation (PEDE) Project was conceived as part of a research program in paediatric health economic methods.In Phase 1, a comprehensive database of over 750 paediatric economic evaluations published over a 20-year period was created. Phase 2 examined key trends in publication. With this database available, an important objective was to evaluate the quality of published paediatric economic evaluations to reveal methodological limitations of existing approaches. In Phase 3, the Paediatric Quality Appraisal Questionnaire (PQAQ), a 57-item paediatric-specific quality appraisal instrument, was developed through a systematic process of item selection, validity and reliability assessment and pre-testing. The PQAQ was used to critically appraise the quality of the paediatric health economic literature in Phase 4.
Performance Expert
Performance analysis and reporting tool, combines robust analytics, clinically driven severity adjustment, benchmarking comparatives, and potent reporting to provide insights needed to focus and drive performance improvement efforts.
Pharma 2020: Challenging business models
Price Waterhouse releases latest report: "Pharma 2020: Challenging Business Models - Which Path Will You Take", explaining the need for collaboration with multiple inside and outside parties in order to succeed. Also can download prior Pharma 2020 reports on "The Vision", "Virtual R&D", "Marketing to the Future".
Pharmaceutical databases online
Drug information resource. Over 75,000 approved drugs and health products. Include generic drugs, prescription drugs, nutritions, supplements, veterinary products, pet meds, cosmetics, drugs active ingredients, pharmaceutical companies, medical catalogs.
Pharmaceutical Payment Methods
AMCP Guide to Pharmaceutical Payment Methods, 2009 Update (Version 2.0) and a revised Interactive Resource Library provide an unbiased description and analysis of the multiple methods used by public and private sector programs to purchase pharmaceutical products and pay providers who prescribe and dispense them. (Source: SMCP, 2009)
Pharmacoeconomic Guidelines Around the World
Pharmacoeconomic evaluation is an analytical tool used with increasing frequency to assist decision making in the financing and management of pharmaceutical products in the health care system or national health insurance programs of an individual country. Pharmacoeconomic (PE) guidelines can be used as a standard for preparation of studies to be included in application for reimbursement, a guide for designing and conducting a study, or a template for evaluating the economic study reports. (Source: ISPOR, Nov 2009)
Pharmacoeconomic Guidelines Around the World
Great resource from ISPOR. Country-specific guidelines’ key features (32) as well as hyperlinks or full text of the guideline (as copyright permission allows) or publication reference including a map of the country
Pharmacoeconomic Guidelines Around the World Comparative Table
From ISPOR. “Pharmacoeconomic Guidelines Around the World” currently represents 23 countries and 28 guidelines, which includes 21 PE guidelines, 6 submission guidelines for formulary listing and 1 for journal publication. For these guidelines that were published in the language of the country (Belgium, France, German), the information was abstracted from a published article of Hjelmgren et al. in VALUE IN HEALTH 2001; 4(3) 225-250. The PE guidelines are government regulatory documents, publications, or suggested guidances or best practices for conducting PE or outcomes research and use of this information in health care decisions and reimbursement decisions.
Pharmalicensing.com
This knowledge packed resource, contains pipeline, financial, analytics, competitor, and partnering information on up to 10,000 biomedical companies worldwide.
PharmaModel from Alliance
Patient-based and disease-specific market model,intuitive and easy to update, maintain or refine on an ongoing basis and can be used on a national, regional or international level. It accommodates up to 52 ountries, with country-specific data gathering possibilities, allowing free inputs for data gaps. Impacts of any market update and any epidemiologic, treatment or label changes are immediately accounted for.
PHARMO Institute for Drug Outcomes Research
Independent scientific research organisation dedicated to the study of drug use and outcomes. The PHARMO Institute has direct access to large and high quality pharmacoepidemiological databases linking drug, patient level and pharmacy data and is staffed with academic trained specialists in epidemiology, pharmacotherapy, medicine and informatics.
Presentation: ISPOR Drug Cost Task Force Forum: Good Research Practices for Measuring Drug Costs in Cost Effectiveness Analyses
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Presentation: ISPOR Health & Disease Management SIG Forum: Reliability & Validity of Data Sources for Health & Disease Management: Rationality in an Era of Controversy
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Presentation: ISPOR Health Science Policy Council Forum: Update on Comparative Effectiveness and Health Information Technology Legislation and Policy Developments, and Their Impact on Pharmacoeconomics
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Presentation: ISPOR HTA Council & SIG Forum: Reimbursement Policy Decision making Process in the US: Private versus Public
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Presentation: ISPOR Medication Compliance & Persistence SIG Forum: Assessment, Determinants & Economics of Medication Compliance & Persistence
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Presentation: ISPOR Patient Registry SIG Forum: Patient Registry Design, Operations, Data Analysis, Reporting & Publishing: Putting All the Pieces Together
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Presentation: ISPOR PRO Existing Instruments & Their Modification Task Force Forum: Good Research Practices on Evaluating and Documenting the Content Validity of PRO Instruments to Support Medical Product Labeling
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Presentation: ISPOR Quality Improvement in Cost Effectiveness Research Task Force Forum: Quality Improvement In Cost Effectiveness Research
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Presentation: ISPOR Risk Management SIG Forum: Risk Benefit Management
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Prices and Wages from Bureau of Labor Services
Wages by area and occupation
PRMA Insights
PRMA Insights is a unique series of reports that address the critical global pricing, reimbursement and market access challenges and opportunities by disease area. Each comprehensive report critically reviews all the major health technology assessment (HTA) and pricing and reimbursement decisions by disease area in the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan, and unravels the complexity around pricing and reimbursement. It delivers actionable insights to apply to your clinical development program in order to develop a robust evidence-based payer-value proposition. Written by a team of industry-experienced individuals, each report provides comprehensive secondary research, experience-based insight, and validation by payers and key opinion leaders (KOLs) across markets. PRMA Insights helps to minimise the market access risk and to maximize the market opportunity for commercial success.
PRMA Virtual
PRMA Virtual is a flexible subscription-based service providing best in class strategic, commercial and technical based pricing, reimbursement and market access advisory services at your fingertips. PRMA Virtual will grant you access to our team of experts to suit your real-time business needs. Brought to you by prmaconsulting, this innovative subscription service offers instant access to our experienced team of Consultants to provide answers to your pricing, reimbursement and market access questions. PRMA Virtual is on-hand to provide you with answers to questions arising from specific issues raised in prmainsights. Purchase a subscription to PRMA Virtual and our team of Consultants will be on-hand to solve all your pricing, reimbursement and market access needs.
PROMIS
Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) initiative stablishes a collaborative relationship between NIH and individual research teams through a cooperative agreement (U01) mechanism. The broad objectives of the PROMIS network are to: * Develop and test a large bank of items measuring patient-reported outcomes * Create a computerized adaptive testing system that allows for efficient, psychometrically robust assessment of patient-reported outcomes in clinical research involving a wide range of chronic diseases * Create a publicly available system that can be added to and modified periodically and that allows clinical researchers to access a common repository of items and computerized adaptive tests. The network will collaborate on the collection of self-reported data from diverse populations of individuals with a variety of chronic diseases, using agreed-upon methods, modes, and questionnaires.
QualityTools
QualityTools is an AHRQ-sponsored compilation of practical tools for assessing, measuring, promoting, and improving the quality of health care. Its purpose is to give health plans, providers, purchasers, consumers, and policymakers easy access to a variety of resources they can use to improve the delivery of care, inform decisions, and educate people about their health care needs.
Reuters: IMS lowers global pharmaceutical forecast for 2009
IMS Lowers global pharmaceutical forecast for 2009: IMS Health Inc now expects the global pharmaceutical market to grow by an anemic 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent in 2009, down 2 percentage points from the forecast it issued six months earlier, and the lowest growth rate in at least 25 years. They attribute this to the worldwide economic crisis. Sales in US (the largest market) will decline by 1-2%, the first decline since IMS started tracking US sales data in 1957. According to IMS, one of the factors keeping the industry from plummeting into a deeper hole is the emerging markets, which are predicted to grow 13-16 percent by 2013. These seven "pharmerging" markets include India, China, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey; they are expected to contribute 40 to 50 percent of the total global growth each year over the next five years.
Saint Louis University Center for Outcomes Research Database
Administrative claims from a large private payer health plan housed in a University setting. We are in the process of linking to the registry data for transplant recipients and donors from the Organ Procurement Transplant Network. Our areas of expertise are organ transplantation, asthma, dementia, chronic kidney disease and hepatology. Contact Steven Takemoto PhD at (314) 977-9458 or takemoto@slu.edu
Search Tool on Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics
Allows MeSH searching of MANY diseases.
SEER
Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is an authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. SEER currently collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer registries covering approximately 26 percent of the US population.
SERMO: Online Physician Community
Physicians around the nation exchange the latest medical insights with each other and improve patient outcomes - 24/7. Used for epidemiology, patient outcomes, surveys, etc.
Solucient (Now part of Thomson Reuters)
Information products company serving the healthcare industry. Solucient provides comparative measurements of cost, quality, and market performance. Maintains the nation's largest healthcare database, comprised of more than 26 million discharges per year from 2,900 hospitals - representing 77.5 percent of all discharges.
Statistical Resources on the Web
University of Michigan Library - A statistical portal. Links to health stats (example, Deaths; disability; Health Care; Health Insurance; HMOs; International Life Tables; Prescription Drugs; Social Security Death Index; Surgery; transplants; Vital Statistics, etc.) Demographics: population, race, ethnicity, etc.
Study: Physician Performance Can be Tiered Using Measure Composites
CIGNA launching the CIGNA Cost of Care Estimator, new technology that will inform patients and healthcare professionals of the total cost to be charged for medical services based on the individual's specific CIGNA health plan
Surveillance Data, Inc.
SDI is the leading provider of real-time localized illness tracking and modeling data to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Conducts patient-level data analyses, patient education, treatment and wellness programs that drive therapeutic compliance and persistence. market research and marketing programs in the area of disease surveillance to pharmaceutical, consumer products companies and retailers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, UK, Europe, and Australia. We have 17 years of experience in respiratory illness tracking and 11 years of experience in influenza-specific tracking.
Tables for Presribed Drugs by total purchases
Tables for Presribed Drugs by total purchases. (Source: AHRQ -- MEPS, Nov 2009)
The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
Provides data on regional costs and spending for healthcare. Website provides access to all Atlas reports and publications, as well as interactive tools to allow visitors to view specific regions and perform their own comparisons and analyses.
The Health Care Status Quo
HHS State Report has recently been issued, including statistics on health care cost and quality for each of the 50 states in US. Examples include % increase in health premiums, costs of care for uninsured, % of state residents without health insurance, and quality ratings.
The Health Improvement Network (THIN)
The Health Improvement Network (THIN) is a collaboration between CSD EPIC and In Practice Systems (InPS), who supply the widely-used Vision general practice computer system, to provide access to anonymised patient medical records in the UK.
The Managed Care Injectables Index
From The Zitter Group, published twice a year. This link takes you to Zitter's website to gain more info on the syndicated bi-annual report.
Tufts Medical Center Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry
The CEA Registry is a unique database containing detailed information on over 1,400 cost-utility analyses published through 2006, with health effects measured in QALYs. The objectives are to help decision-makers identify society's best opportunities for targeting resources to improve health, to assist policymakers in healthcare resource allocation decisions, and to move the field towards the use of standard methodologies. To date, the Registry has been the source of data for over 30 peer-reviewed articles and has been used or cited in analyses by the EPA, FDA, IOM, and the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission. The published articles summarized in the Registry undergo a formalized review protocol.
U.S. Census Bureau Home Page
Downloadable files on demographics, maps, etc.
WellPoint Institute of Health Care Knowledge Releases Report on Health Care Costs
WellPoint Institute of Health Care Knowledge releases report detailing the primary drivers of increased health care services and health insurance premiums, dispelling the notion that insurer profits are fueling spiking costs.
WHO CHOICE (International CEA)
WHO-CHOICE reports the costs and effects of a wide range of health interventions in the 14 epidemiological sub-regions (world divisions made based on geographical location and epidemiological profiles). The results of these cost-effectiveness analysis are assembled in regional databases, which policy makers can adapt to their specific country setting.
www.DrugWatch.com
Drugwatch.com is a comprehensive Web site featuring extensive information about thousands medications and drug side effects.
www.kantarhealth.com
CardioMonitor is an international database service that provides a comprehensive view of the treatment of the cardiovascular and diabetes disease areas for major EU countries, USA, Japan and China (other markets at clients’ request). CardioMonitor comprises 4,500 to 5,000 patient case histories per country per year provided by primary care physicians and specialists and gives insight into physicians’ treatment and prescribing practices for all cardiovascular, diabetes and obesity drugs. CardioMonitor is acknowledged by a panel of leading international cardiologists as the most comprehensive and consistent global source of information available. From Kantar Health.




 

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