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From NCE to NICE: the role of Pharmacoeconomics

What Is the Price Benchmark to Replace Average Wholesale Price (AWP)?

NICE announces development of further Quality Standards

Avastin patient access scheme too complicated, says NICE

Comparative Effectiveness—of What? Evaluating Strategies to Improve Population Health

Market access and patient access schemes

Market access: Risk sharing and alternative pricing schemes

US breast cancer drug decision 'marks start of death panels'

Medical Affairs at the centre of life sciences innovation

Rising Burden of Diseases Drives the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa Says Frost & Sullivan

Is Health Care Special?

CRD international register of ongoing systematic reviews

Hospitals Should Plan Now for Value-Based Purchasing, Which May Be a Game-Changer

Comparative Effectiveness Research

Health care and revenue competition in Britain

Literature Review Examines Value of Managed Care Pharmacy Tools

Compelling Evidence Regarding Effectiveness Of Managed Care Pharmacy Tools In Achieving Intended Outcomes

IBM, Aetna roll out cloud-based clinical decision support system

Health Economics Spending Increases 45% in Emerging Markets, 8% in the US

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announces new NHS ‘quality standards’

PharmaNet, Abacus ally on ‘real world' research

The Impact of Employer Health and Productivity Management Practices

NICE ‘yes’ in 80% of treatment appraisals

Providers Have Won Majority of RAC Claims Denials They Have Appealed

Study examines UK’s NICE as model producer of HTA

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announces new NHS ‘quality standards’

Government kicks off consultation on outcomes framework

Will More Insurers Control Health Care Costs Better?

Will Janssen-Cilag's ADHD YouTube Video Go Viral and Win an Award?

Reimbursement by Distributors

Growing application of pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research in health-care decision-making in the Asia-Pacific region.Yang BM, Lee K. Value Health. 2009 Nov-Dec;12 Suppl 3:S1-2.

Value-based Pricing to be Introduced to the UK Pharma Industry by 2014

Disclosing Industry Relationships — Toward an Improved Federal Research Policy

Pharmacoeconomics: friend or foe?

NHS reform – a bold vision or a dangerous gamble?

GSK's Coverup of Avandia's Heart Risk Data: Is This How the Entire Industry Views Its Repsonsibility to Patients?

Oncology drug price cuts announced in Italy related to perfomance based schemes

US And European Prices Aren’t So Different After All

Grand challenges in pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes

White Paper: An Economic Assessment of the Relationship between Price Regulation and Incentives to Innovate in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Clarifying Sources of Geographic Differences in Medicare Spending

Is The Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Reports Being Evaluated? by Rebecca Singer Cohen Rebecca Singer Cohen View Author Bio and Bryan Luce

Biosimilars’ Price Dynamic in Europe, Dr Matthias Liefner of Simon Kucher and Partners.

AQoL Website - Centre for Health Economics, Monash University

“How To Negotiate Salary”, a submitted article by Bill Cebak - Founder / Headhunter Global HEOR, Market Access and Medical Communications Practice since 1993

AMCP eDossier System: A Partnership that Works! AMCP News June 2010

Dartmouth Atlas: A Response to Its Researchers

D2 Review : APHA and AMCP introduce MTM Connections a fantastic site for new professional opportunities

Including Pregnant Women in Clinical Research Called ‘Imperative’

Selecting Quality and Resource Use Measures A Decision Guide for Community Quality Collaboratives

Spending More on Drugs Doesn’t Mean Spending Less On Other Care

Trendspotter: Consumer Survey Shows Opposition to Evidence-Based Medicine

Patient Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE)

Former CMS Official’s Off-Label Work May Help Reform Law’s CER Center

Patient-reported outcome measures in the NHS: new methods for analysing and reporting EQ-5D data

Integrated Health Ecosystem Key to Creating Better Health Outcomes and Managing Costs for Employers and Health Plans

The Health Care Economy: New Questions About Costs, Quality And Care

The Amazing Maze of US Health Care

Universal Healthcare Myths | New Health Care Bill Facts

Pricing, profits and pharmacoeconomics - for whose benefit?

Symposium on Research Methods for Clinical and Comparative Effectiveness Studies – Part II

France, Italy announce drug pricing cuts

"AMCP Launches Health Care Reform Implementation Web Page"

2010 Lecture: US Health Care Reform

Biosimilars: Issues Overview

AZ's fixed-price deal on Iressa gets NICE nod

Transforming Trial Results Into Practice Change: The Final Translational Hurdle

Obama’s New Health Rationer-in-Chief

NICE to move to value-based pricing?

Reimbursement of New High Cost Drugs – Deal or No Deal! by:Michael Barry MD, PhD, FRCPI, 2009-2010 ISPOR President and Clinical Director National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

UK Government Wants To Revamp Drug Watch Dog NICE

New FDA Campaign Targets Detailing, Trade Shows

Advances in technology highlight need of Pharmacoeconomics in managing healthcare: Dr Rajesh Balakrishnan

RFP for 2011 IBI/NBCH Health & Productivity Forum

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


hot jobs

Job Title Company
Health Economics Modeling Associate Director Analytica International
Associate Director - Health Economics and Outcomes Research Johnson & Johnson
Research Analyst Oxford Outcomes
Senior and Principal Consultants Bridgehead International Limited
Assistant or Associate Professor of Outcomes Sciences SC College of Pharmacy


journals

AHA News
Weekly health-policy news from Washington as well as national and state health care news.
American Health & Drug Benefits
American Health & Drug Benefits (AHDB) is a peer-reviewed journal that informs health and drug benefits decision-makers on the triad of clinical, business, and regulatory best practices driving formulary and benefit design competency in a value-based healthcare system. The journal examines opportunities for optimal overall resource allocation amidst competing stakeholder incentives: patient, provider, payor, purchaser, manufacturer, evaluator, research/development, government, and distributor.
American Health & Drug Benefits
American Health & Drug Benefits (AHDB) is a peer-reviewed journal that informs health and drug benefits decision-makers on the triad of clinical, business, and regulatory best practices driving formulary and benefit design competency in a value-based healthcare system. The journal examines opportunities for optimal overall resource allocation amidst competing stakeholder incentives: patient, provider, payor, purchaser, manufacturer, evaluator, research/development, government, and distributor.
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
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 the different tabs for access to market overview slides by therapeutic area, HMO industry overview, prescription drug costs, etc.
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.
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.
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.
Economics and Human Biology
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
European Journal of Health Economics
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research (ISSN 1473-7167) provides expert reviews on cost-benefit and pharmacoeconomic issues relating to the clinical use of drugs and therapeutic approaches. (Source: Expert-Reviews.com, Dec. 2009)
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
Health Affairs
Health Affairs Blog
Blog postings from the journal 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 Economics
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 Resources Online: Pay-For-Performance Executive Resource Center
Are you involved in P4P? Healthresourcesonline.com offers a virtual library of executive level P4P including audio conferences, CD-Roms, and a variety of special reports and the industry publication of record: Pay-for-Performance Reporter.
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 Innovation and Integrated Care Journal
RISAI is a new e-journal covering Innovation and Integration in healthcare systems, services and organisations. RISAI is published both in English and in Spanish.
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
HealthEconomist.biz
HealthEconomist.biz is a blog concerned with the analysis of current issues in health and health care from an economic perspective. It provides authoritative insight and opinion on all topics in health economics, with particular emphasis on international comparisons, the economic evaluation of health technologies and the valuation of health.
Hospital.Com
Hospital.com is a medical publication geared towards the consumer and professional market. It offers hospital reviews, news and information on various health care topics.
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
Hospitals & Health Networks magazine
iHEA Week (newsletter of International Health Economics Association)
iHEA Week (newsletter of International Health Economics Association)
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 Health Care Finance and Economics
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
ISPOR Connections
A bimonthly ISPOR technical and news publication,
ISPOR CONNECTIONS JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010
Articles include: Thoughts on the Validity of a New QALY EstimatorHealth Care Decision-Making Around the World: A Global Roadmap and Country-Specific Decision-Making and Reimbursement Processes Assessment of Use of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research in Asia: The ISPOR Asia Consortium Needs Survey Report.
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 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 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 Health Services Research
A brand new journal that aims to become a focal point for the publication of all aspects of research within the field of health services research that relate to pharmaceuticals. The first issue is due to publish in March 2010.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management
Journal of Pharmacy Technology
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Economics
Journal of Risk Analysis
Knowledge at Wharton Health Economics
Always topical, well-written, key opinion leaders.
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 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 Devices Business Review
Medical Device Business Review is online source for the medical device industry news and developments. It’s a resource for medical device manufacturers, suppliers and contractors information.
Medical Devices Business Review
Medical Devices Business Review is a definitive point of reference for the Industry news; from expert opinion, to detailed research reports and industry analysis. Our website has up-to-date industry news on the medical industry sector and you may find some interesting news articles.
Medical Devices Business Review
Medical Devices Business Review is a definitive point of reference for the Industry news; from expert opinion, to detailed research reports and industry analysis. Our website has up-to-date industry news on the medical industry sector and you may find some interesting news articles.
Medical Executive-Post
HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS [Journal of Financial Management Strategies] "Bridging the Intersection of Medical Mission and Profit Margin"
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.
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.
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
Pharmaceutical Industry News
Pharmaceutical Business Review provides latest pharma industry news, developments and analysis reports. It also offers a comprehensive breakdown of pharmaceutical manufacturers, contractors and suppliers information.
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
Reimbursement IQ: 2009 ASCO Special Report
Do you work with Oncology products? Reimbursement IQ will report payer reactions to the most followed clinical data presentations at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, via its 2009 ASCO Special Report. The report will assess how payers evaluate these oncology products in- and post- development from a clinical and economic perspective. The report will uncover payer reimbursement perspectives and provide insight on formulary management, restrictions and pricing sensitivity.
Risk Analysis Journal
Statistics in Medicine
Good place for publishing meta-analyses
Studies in Health Technology and Information
The Patient
Journal focussed on patient centered outcomes research. Jointly published by Johns Hopkins University and Wolters Kluwer
Trustee Magazine
Value in Health
Official journal of ISPOR
Value in Health
Value in Health offers readers the opportunity to access complete articles to be published in upcoming issues of Value in Health. These articles are citable by DOI, and by volume and issue.
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