HealthEconomics.Com - The Resource for Health Outcomes Professionals

Job Title Company

Health Outcomes Scientist- Health Technology Assessment/ Policy Eli Lilly and Co.

Associate Director, Health Economics and Pricing - EU Abraxis BioScience

Research Scientists - Center for Health Economics, Epidemiology and Science Policy United BioSource Corporation

Research Associates - Center for Health Outcomes Research United BioSource Corporation

Health Outcomes Scientist-Epidemiology/HSR Eli Lilly and Co.

AHA News

Weekly health-policy news from Washington as well as national and state health care news.

American Journal of Bioethics

American Journal of Managed Care

American Journal of Medicine

American Journal of Public Health

Annals of Internal Medicine

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

Bandolier

Journal contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine. Internet version is several months behind printed version.

BMC Health Services Research

Book: Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

Clearly written with an excellent glossary and index.The product of over two years of deiberation by a multi-disciplinary Public Health Service appointed panel that included economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians, it explores cost-effectiveness in the context of societal decision-making for resource allocation purposes.

Book: Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values

M. G. Myriam Hunink and Milt Weinstein. It is very readable, making a complex subject appear crystal clear and easy to understand. The exercises at the end of each chapter provide a useful check of understanding and examples of how to apply the skills.Overall, this book is a very useful addition to the literature on evidence-based health care, providing clear strategies for incorporating decision analysis into our daily decision making.

Book: Designing and Conducting CEA

Rather than focusing on theory, this practical book teaches students how to obtain data and then mold the data into a working analysis. All methods presented in the book adhere to the recommendations forwarded by the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. Available from Amazon or Barnes&Noble.

Book: Economic Evaluation in Health Care: Merging Theory with Practice

To accompany the hugely sccessful 'Methods for Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes 2e', this book is a thorough and rigorous discussion of the methodological principles and recent advances in the rapidly advancing field of theory and practice of economic evaluation in health care. Written by an internationally acclaimed group of authors, the book provides an in-depth discussion of the latest theoretical advances and gives comprehensive reviews of the available literature. The book covers the main areas of economic evaluation, including the methods for measuring costs and outcomes, the collection of data alongside clinical studies, ways of handling uncertainty, discounting and issues relating to the transferability of economic data.

Book: Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation

Includes 1. Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation, by Briggs et al. focuses on the role and methods of decision analysis in economic evaluation. Published 2006. 2. Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials by Glick et al. covers the design, conduct and analysis of economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and their distinctive methodological and practical issues. Published February 2007. 3. Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care by Clark et al. sets out the key elements of analysing costs and outcomes, calculating cost-effectiveness and reporting results. Publication date 2008. 4. Applied Methods of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Health Care by Clark et al. provides a comprehensive guide to the theory and the practical conduct of cost-benefit analysis. Publication date 2009.

Book: Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Book of Terms

Includes over 100 monographs covering over 400 terms used in health care delivery, management, and regulation, as well as health care outcomes research including clinical, economic, and quality-of-life research terms.

Book: Measuring Employee Productivity: A Guide to Self-Assessment Tools

Known as "The Gold Book". Excellent publication on how to choose tool, evaluation of validity/reliability, copies of instruments, all available in downloadable PDF for $49

Book: Medical Device & Diagnostic Outcomes Research: Issues & Good Research Practices

In development

Book: Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes

This is my favorite book. Praise for the first edition: "The methodological chapters on cost analysis and cost utility analysis are gems... Should become the standard text on the subject at the intermediate level at which it is aimed."--Medical Decision Making "It leaves nothing important in economic evaluation analysis untouched."--Health Policy and Planning

Book: Pharmaceutical Marketing in the 21st Century

by Mickey Smith. View TOC and chapters.

Book: Pharmaceutical Marketing Strategies and Cases

By Mickey Smith

Book: Providing Efficient, Cost-effective, Quality Health Solutions In The 21st Century: Engaging Cutting Edge Care Technologies

By John Robert Coleman, et. al. Published 2005, text on strategies, case studies, etc.

Book: The Diffusion and Value of HealthCare Information Technology

Investigates the impact of electronic medical records.

Book: Dictionary of Health Economics

By AJ Culyer. This expansive Dictionary comprehensively covers the health economics, epidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, demography, medical sociology, medical statistics and bio-statistics, health policy, health administration and health service management, public health medicine and qualitative and quantitative research. Entries and definitions are provided for all key concepts listed with, in many cases, more extended entries on core or controversial ideas. Anthony Culyer has amassed a wealth of information and facts within these pages, and yet has not been reluctant to include comment on issues and ideas. This makes the Dictionary eminently readable and all the more interesting. This is a unique reference work and as such, The Dictionary of Health Economics will be a valuable reference tool for a wide audience encompassing not just health economists, but many specialists and researchers in other fields (social sciences and beyond) as well as with policymakers.

Book: Economic, Clinical, and Patient Reported Outcomes Research: Good Research Practices

This book, part of The ISPOR Outcomes Research Good Practices Series, will be a compilation of reports developed by ISPOR Task Forces and Special Interest Groups to address outcomes research methodological issues. Includes Ethics for researchers; modeling studies; economic/PE studies; real world studies; communicating outcomes research information to HC decision makers; use of outcomes research in HC decisions

Book: Pharmacoeconomics in Perspective

By Robert Bonk

Book: Platinum Book

How to assess health and productivity management programs (work productivity impairment due to health). This is an excellent resource for anyone engaged in employer-demonstration projects.

Book: Strategies in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

By Reinhard Rychlik, MA, MD, PhD Professor; Director of the Institute of Empirical Health Economics, Burscheid, Germany

Cancer News on the Net ®

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly

Excellent source of new epidemiologic data.

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.

Clinical Therapeutics

The indexed journal Clinical Therapeutics features a specialty section, "Pharmaceutical Economics & Health Policy" specialty section that features articles on economic evaluation, health outcomes, and policy issues related to drug therapy.

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.

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Current Medical Research Opinion

Cutting Edge Information

Syndicated reports on industry trends

Data/Trends from Managed Care Digest

Very interesting, rich site: Click on this link for access to market overview slides by therapeutic area, HMO industry overview, prescription drug costs, etc.

Disease Management & Health Outcomes

Disease Management and Clinical Outcomes

Drug Benefit News

Drug Benefit Trends

Economic Analysis Worksheet to evaluate journal article

Critical Appraisal worksheet for economic analysis journal article.

E-Doc Medical Information for South Africa

On line daily news with special areas devoted to medical, nursing, pharmaceutical companies, consumers, etc.

Employer Health Management E-News

From the Benfield Group. Click to download archives. Excellent for anyone doing employer research.

European Journal of Health Economics

Expert Review ofPharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

FDA Draft Guidance: Distribution of journal articles on unapproved uses

On February 15, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance that would allow drug or medical device manufacturers to distribute medical journal articles and scientific or medical reference publications that discuss unapproved (off-label) new uses for approved drugs or medical devices marketed in the U.S. to health care professionals. In order to ensure that the information is truthful and non-misleading, FDA outlines principles of “Good Reprint Practices” that manufacturers should follow. FDA is accepting public comments on the draft guidance until April 21.

Fierce Bioresearcher

Formulary

Future Focus

Developed by DaVinci Oncology Specialists, a specialized operating group within The MattsonJack Group, comprehensive, integrated and future-focused assessments of the impact of novel agents and changes in selected therapeutic areas in the United States and around the world. Each report identifies key technologies and products that will have a mid- to long-term commercial effect on a given market, quantifies future treatment trends and projects the competitive market based on future alternative scenarios.

Health Affairs

Health and Productivity Toolkit

Excellent overview for evaluating health and productivity management programs

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal offering high quality articles, rapid publication and wide diffusion in the public domain. The journal is included in MEDLINE, and all articles are listed in PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC).

Health Care News Server

Daily news for physicians, nurses and other healthcare and managed care professionals.

Health Economics

Health Economics Knowledge at Wharton

Newsletter and blogspot on issues in health economics, pharmacoeconomics, outcomes research, health care costs, etc.

Health Facilities Management magazine

Health Forum

Publishes books, other communications, information, education and research products and services that advance leadership for health.

Health INFLATION.com

Monthly update of medical care inflation. Use for pricing policy, negotiating contracts, monitoring trends, forecasting

Health Plan Week

Formerly Managed Care Week

Health Research Data for the Real World: the MarketScan Databases

Medstat white paper; click on this link to receive a copy

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Health Services Research Journal

On-line official journal of Assn for Health Services Research; 10+ year index by subject and author.

Healthcare Management Library

From National Health Information and HCPRO, Inc. newsletters that focus on payors and vendors affiliated with payors, such as disease management, capitation and consumer-driven healthcare.

Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor

HospitalBenchmarks.com

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

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine

InPharm.com

Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics. Includes News, views, jobs, directories of agencies, professional organization and freelancers, along with thousands of links out into the Internet.

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

ISPOR Connections

A bimonthly ISPOR technical and news publication,

Journal of American Medical Association

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management

Journal of Drug Assessment

From the same stable as Journal of Clinical Research, Journal of Medical Economics and Journal of Outcomes Research

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Journal of Health Economics

Journal of Healthcare Finance

Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy

Official journal of Academy of Managed Care Pharmac.

Journal of Medical Economics

Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Journal of Pharmaceutical Finance, Economics & Policy

Now merged with J Managed Pharmaceutical Care

Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management

Journal of Pharmacy Technology

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Economics

Journal of Risk Analysis

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

Knowledge at Wharton Health Economics

Always topical, well-written, key opinion leaders.

Leading Indicator

The MattsonJack Group's Leading Indicator™ tracks changes in New Prescription VELOCITY on a weekly basis. Velocity is the change in New Prescriptions, and it is one of the most sensitive measures for predicting future market share changes. Leading Indicator™ can be used to identify potential competitive shifts in the market before significant share changes occur.

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.

Managed Care Interface Magazine

Online journal focused on HMOs, outcomes, patient satisfaction, etc.

Managed Care On-line

Specializing in delivering managed care information and applications via the internet and software applications.

Managed Care Weekly Watch

Weekly newsletter; sign up for free email delivery from THe Managed Care Information Center.

Materials Management in Health Care magazine

Purchasing, managing, and using supplies, equipment, and resources.

Medical Decision-Making

Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics

Independent, peer-reviewed, nonprofit publication that offers unbiased critical evaluations of drugs, with special emphasis on new drugs, to physicians and other members of the health professions. It evaluates virtually all new drugs and reviews older drugs when important new information becomes available on their usefulness or adverse effects. Published every other week in a four-page newsletter format, it carries no advertising and is supported entirely by subscription fees. A typical issue appraises two or three new drugs in terms of their effectiveness, toxicity, cost and possible alternatives.

Medical Reporter

Educational health magazine on the Web. Published solely in cyberspace.

MedicareNewsWatch.com

Merck Manuals

Online versions of the most widely used medical text. Covers human diseases, symptoms, common clinical procedures, and laboratory tests.

Modern Healthcare Online

New Drug Pocketbinder for Pharmacy

Newly released drugs are listed and reviewed. The New Drug Pocketbinder provides brief, concise summaries of the latest new drug releases in pocketsized monograph format.

New England Journal of Medicine

New York Times Article: "Employers Offer Free Drugs to Save Costs"

Published on 2/21/07, it describes the move by several employers to offer free drugs to improve employees functioning and reduce long-term costs. Mentions several companies involved in this progressive benefit management. Good if you are involved in employer research.

Oncology Marketing Strategies

Developed by DaVinci Oncology Specialists, addresses the business side of cancer. Chapters are available individually or as an annual subscription. Unique Features: regular PowerPoint updates of commercial and government reimbursement and policy developments; extensive profiles of channel organizations, including oncology GPOs, specialty distributors and reimbursement hotline providers; inside views of key provider customers and comparative analyses of leading oncology pharmaceutical companies

P&T Community

An online resource for P&T committee members in hospital-based and managed care organizations. Formkit provides P&T members with pharmacoeconomic information, FDA and industry news, and access to the most up-to-date formulary kits.

Pay for Performance Reporter

Costs $250-$350, once-monthly, put out by MCIC.

Pharma Marketing News

By John Mack

Pharmacoeconomics

Pharmacy Week Journal

PharmaVoice

PharmScope

Serves managed care professionals who control or influence pharmaceutical buying decisions for their organizations, intended for formulary decision-makers

Preventing Chronic Disease

From CDC

Public Health Reports Online

Journal of the U.S. Public Health Service, peer-reviewed journal bi-monthly--six issues offering articles in three main areas: public health practice, research, and viewpoints/commentaries.

Quality of Life Research

Risk Analysis Journal

Statistics in Medicine

Good place for publishing meta-analyses

Strategies in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

White paper, with basic information. Good for students

Studies in Health Technology and Information

Trustee Magazine

Value in Health

Official journal of ISPOR

Download Newsletter

Become a sponsor