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PharmaVoice "Obamaceuticals: The Good, The Bad, The Controversial, and the Undecided."

PROMS to support decisions for clinicians and commissioners and to improve choices for patients

CIGNA said it is launching the CIGNA Cost of Care Estimator:

Before July 10, 2009: Submit case examples for revision of AHRQs “Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User’s Guide”

One Way to Lower Health Costs: Pay People to Be Healthy

Public review: June 25-July 10: Use of Bayesian Techniques in Randomized Clinical Trials: A CMS Case Study

CBO June 16, 2009 Report: Health Care Reform and the Federal Budget

Stephen Shortell discusses disconnect between costs and outcomes

Obama addresses American Medical Association on June 15, 2009

Med-eHUB said to revolutionize healthcare reimbursement research.

Research Article: A Bayesian model averaging approach for cost-effectiveness analyses

Aetna Members More Likely to Engage in Programs to Reduce Health Risk

NHLBI Funds Research and Training Centers Aimed at Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries and Collaborates with UnitedHealth Group

IBI Releases Full Costs of Depression Research Report & Survey

July 16, 2009: Proposals due for Health & Productivity Forum

NYT Article: What if Patient's Preference is in Conflict with Recommendations Grounded in Evidence-Based Medicine?

NEJM article: "A Strategy for Healthcare Reform-- Toward a Value-Based System" by Harvard Professor Michael E. Porter, PhD

Secretary Sebelius Highlights Two New Reports on Health Care Quality, Says Improving Quality is Key Component of Health Reform

Free Clinician Evidence-Based Summary Guides for various areas from AHRQ

Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) to be released soon.

The Cost of Inaction: the Urgent Need for Health Reform

JMCP Editorial on Roundtable Regarding Real-World Data

Comparative Effectiveness: Stimulus Bill, CBO paper, PhRMA statement and more!

Job Title Company

Senior Health Economist Double Helix Consulting

Clinical Analytics- Senior Researcher- Irvine CA UnitedHealth Group

Accounting/Finance Arts & Crafts

Healthcare Modeling Scientist Archimedes

Chair of Health Economics The University Of Sheffield

A Taxonomy for the Design, Development & Implementation of Patient Registries

Advanced Methods of CEA Course

This course has moved from Oxford to Glasgow. It is a three-day course for those already undertaking modelling for health economic evaluation within the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, consultancy, academia or the health service. It is run collaboratively by the Universities of York and Glasgow. More information from York or Glasgow.

AHRQ Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes

Comments on the draft handbook from UBC (United Biosource Corp).

Alegent Health P4P

Discusses recent initiative by employer to return money to employees for improving health. Demonstrates a pay for performance (P4P) initiative and an employer who is interested in indirect and direct medical cost management.

AMA Physician Select

From AMA, this is an on-line "doctor finder" providing information on virtually every licensed physician in the US.

Analysis of Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness in Patient Registries

Application of Healthcare Intervention Economic Evaluation

Advisory Panel report from ISPOR Working Group

Assurance Pharmaceutical Care Documentation Software

Assurance Pharmaceutical Care™ is a computer-based documentation system designed to support the practice of pharmaceutical care. This program is used by pharmaceutical care practitioners to manage all of a patient's medications and to document outcomes from drug therapies, cost savings, and clinical improvement in patient care. It supports all reimbursement methods and practitioners providing medication therapy management (MTM) services to patients on a continuous basis, over repeated patient encounters, at multiple practice sites, by multiple practitioners, and it is fully developed to support an entire network of practitioners.

Bayesian Statistics for Health Economics and Outcomes Research by O'Hagan and Luce

Wonderful primer that makes the subject of bayesian statistics understandable, relevant, and interesting.

Bias, Credibility and Quality in Economic Evaluations

Advisory Panel Report from ISPOR

BioSnail

Job interview techniques, sample resumes, job search strategy, free resume design, etc.

Blog: Akshay G. Kapur Discussing healthcare, business intelligence, books, and ideas

Discussion of P4P, QALY, health economics, and other information.

Blog: Health Equity Blogspot

Blog: Piper Report

Popular health care blog. Medicare, Medicaid, pharma, reform, and more. Insights and resources on hot issues. Kip Piper, editor.

Book: Best Practices in Biotechnology Business Development

By Yali Friedman. Valuation, Licensing, Cash Flow, Pharmacoeconomics, Market Selection, Communication, and Intellectual Property

Budget Impact Analysis

Comments from United Biosource Corp. on ISPOR guidelines for Budget Impact Analysis

CBO June 16, 2009 Report on Health Care Reform

Health Care Reform and the Federal Budget

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 in clinical trials

From ISPOR Task Force. Good white paper.

Clinical Epidemiology Definitions

Defines relative risk, absolute risk, study designs (case controls, etc), intent to treat, etc. Great educational tool

Clinical Trial Recruitment Strategy

Enables clinical trial administrators to identify investigators and recruit patients more quickly and efficiently by applying objective, evidenced-based metrics to site selection and patient recruitment.

Communicating and Reporting Health Economic Information

Advisory Panel Report from ISPOR

Conferences from The Center for Business Intelligence

Dedicated to developing market-driven, unbiased conferences in pharmaceuticals\biotech, medical devices, risk and insurance and managed care markets. Continuous cycle of relevant conferences.

Consumer Directed Health Plans Research Report

The Consumer-Directed Health Market: Implications of New Benefit Designs by The Zitter Group

Consumer Price Index

CPI database, inflation calculator, etc.

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)

Curriculum for Health Economics

A wonderful compilation of books, journals, articles, websites, databases, etc. that you would need if you are new to health economics. In fact, it's a great list if you are an experienced health economist. It only goes up to 2003 but it provides a wonderful, exhaustive overview of relevant resources. Great for students and for teachers preparing courses.

'Dar he Blogs

Another health economic blog by an MD pursuing a PhD in Health Economics from Yale.

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/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 Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation

Book by Andrew Briggs, Karl Claxton, and Mark Sculpher * A practical guide designed to encourage the reader to apply the modelling methods discussed * Provides a step by step guide on how to set up a model, enter the data, analyse the results, and take this forward for future research * Supporting material provided online, including exercise templates and solution files * Relevant to any researchers and analysts responsible for producing or interpreting cost-effectiveness models

Defending Brand Revenue

PDF or buy report. Developing lifecycle management strategies to maximize branded drugs’ profitability is a key strategy for the pharmaceutical industry. Aside from defending against generic competition, lifecycle management strategies enable companies to sustain their revenue streams and fill gaps in their pipelines as increasing numbers of key brands begin to lose patent protection.

Definition of Health Economics

Wikipedia listing. Needs input. Also help create a Wikipedia "health outcomes" listing. There isn't one! Email patti@healtheconomics.com if you want to work together to do this.

Designing and Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analyses

GREAT SITE: Open courseware on CEA, tutorials of Markov models, QALE calculator, etc.

Determinants of health economic decisions

Summary of presentation by Dr. Daniel Kahneman at 2007 ISPOR meeting. Covers the value of QALY

Diabetes Health Economics Resources

Compiled by Thomas Songer, University of Pittsburg. The compilations of papers, cost estimates, and studies vary in their timeliness.

Directory of Healthcare Recruiters and Search Firms

Listing of hundreds of recruiters and headhunters with names, firms, postal, phone, fax, web and e-mail addresses. Time-saver for job hunters.

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 Incidence Model

For each population, the Disease Incidence Model™ produces a report showing the overall incidence of disease compared to the national norm and quantifying the cost impact of each disease on a per member per month basis and in total. Reports identify diseases that are over-represented and under-represented in the population in terms of frequency and in terms of cost. Reports also depict differences in population demographics driving these variances.

Disease Management ROI: Benchmarks, Metrics, and Case Studies for Success

Join the Managed Care Information Center and experts on disease management analysis for a discussion about disease management and ROI in this special 90-minute audio conference which took place in May 2007 with Ron Z. Goetzel, Ph.D. Director, Cornell Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Matthew McGinnis,Sr. Director, Ctr for Health Research, Healthways, and Thomas W. Wilson, Ph.D. Epidemiologist Trajectory HealthCare. Cost is $247 for CD + materials

Economic Analysis Worksheet to evaluate journal article

Critical Appraisal worksheet for economic analysis journal article.

Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials

Book by Henry A Glick, Jalpa A Doshi, Seema S Sonnad, and Daniel Polsky.* Hugely important for anyone involved in the development of new drugs, therapies, or devices * Supporting material provided online * A practical guide to teach the reader how to design and conduct appropriate, rigorous economic evaluations of clinical trials

Ecosante : a site devoted to Health Economics

French meta-site devoted to Health Economics in a broad sense. Links and documents (online and downloadable) are available.

E-Doc Medical Information for South Africa

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

Eight Steps to More Productive Observational (Registry) Studies by Jeff Trotter

Clever, insightful, and informative...Let Jeff Trotter, one of the preeminent consultant to the pharma/biotech industry, help you conceive, implement, and analyze better and more useful observational, Phase IV, Registry studies. As always, he does it with humor!

Employer Survey on Health and Productivity Impact

2007 Survey by Hewitt Associates (Summary in Newsletter)

Employer Trends - 2006

Employer Market Intelligence. Click here to see how to obtain updated reports from the Benfield Group.

EMR Software

Electronic medical record & practice management software

EMR Software for Electronic Medical Records

ENDOTALK

Meta-site central location for comprehensive information regarding the specialty of gastrointestinal and surgical endoscopy.

Evidence of Value Model

Performs customized calculations of the value of new drugs, medical devices and other therapeutic interventions. The Model links cost and utilization data from large patient care databases to published clinical data specific to new drugs, classes of drugs, diagnostics, medical technologies, or a combination of drugs and technologies used to treat a specific disease.

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.

Evidence-based Medicine: an Introduction

Toolkit to aid the practice of EBM. Tips, how to frame question, literature sources, how to critically appraise, etc.

ExtendMed

Manage medical web conferences. Online event management, complete customization of website to match educational initiative, evaluations, marketing/reg support, summary reports, AV production and logistics coordination

FDA Code of Federal Regulations

The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

Financial Modeler

From Thomson Medstat; helps you easily and confidently forecast future expenditures, establish a budget, and track against that budget throughout the year. It also supports the annual premium and contribution rate-setting process. spacer

Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self Study Course** - National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology (NICHSR)

A very useful interactive tutorial.

first PR SIG workshop was presented at the 11th Annual European Congress in Athens: Use of Real World Data: Challenges in the Analysis of Patient Registry Data

Forecasting Model from Alliance

Improved forecast quality through ’deep strategy’ brought on by dynamic scenario planning, the best way to understand and control corporate risks

Forum: Patient Registry Classification, Design, Operations, Data Analysis, Reporting & Publishing: Putting All the Pieces Together

Click to see presentation.

Gaining Power Through Evidence-Based Selling

Report copyrighted from PharmaVoice; Sales reps need an edge to get face time with physicians. By adding evidence-based medicine information to the sales call increases the sales rep's role.

Getting It Right: Designing Outcomes-Based Physician Incentive Compensation

Is there a "right way" to get physician buy-in of pay-for-performance (P4P)? What makes for an effective outcomes-based incentive program? Listen to this executive-level teleconference on CD-ROM. This special program was sponsored by Managed Care Information Center. This conference was held on July 28, 2005. Cost $149 for CD + materials

Glossary of terms in health economics

From a self-study course developed by the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). Other modules include scope of appraisal, resources, identification and retrieval, critical appraisal/analysis.

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.

HCUP data: direct access

This will take you directly to the data you want.

he P4P Potential: Overcoming the Challenges and Recognizing the Opportunities

The Managed Care Information Center editorial team analyzed the growth and adoption of healthcare provider – physician and hospital – pay-for-performance programs around the country

Health Affairs Blog

Health and Productivity Management Overview

Publication by the Benfield Group. Health and Productivity Management (HPM) is an integrated and strategic approach to the management of employee health and productivity. HPM focuses on enhancing total shareholder value by simultaneously lowering total health-related costs & improving workforce productivity. Read this perspective on how HPM is an emerging business strategy that delivers bottom line results.

Health Economic Appraisal Self Study

Self study education course from National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). This module explains why health economic evaluations require appraisal; explains each of the key areas to consider in the critical appraisal of health economic evaluation studies; Helps you appraise a selected paper.

Health Economics - Places To Go

A good list of resources available on the web, compiled by a health economic researcher from Germany.

Health Economics Knowledge at Wharton

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

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 Outcomes Research Principles from PhRMA

Description of principles that establish a framework to help ensure government-supported health outcomes research, including research on comparative effectiveness, meets patients’ needs and supports continued improvement in medical care.

Health Plan Wellness and Health Improvement Programs: What’s Working Today to Achieve Member Commitment and Participation

Discover what’s working in health plan wellness and health promotion programs, award winning and unique programs, best practices, ROI, and lessons learned in this special audio conference, “Winning Ideas in Health Plan Wellness and Health Improvement Programs: What’s Working Today to Achieve Member Commitment and Participation.” The program was held Tuesday, November 15, 2005.

Health Services Research Resources – Leonard Davis Institute, University of PA

Links to associations and alliances, foundations and organizations, research and policy groups.

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.

Healthcare Trends & Forecasts in 2008: Performance Expectations for the Healthcare Industry

4 key thought leaders' predictions. Cost is $117

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.

Health-Nexus

Health information site that offers links to sites in all categories of health.

HEDIS Compliance Audit

Audits or audit reviews for health plans and physician organizations (reporting entities). Licensed by the National Committee for Quality assurance (NCQA) to perform HEDIS Compliance audits, our trained professionals, located throughout the United States, have extensive experience with commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid data in both health plans and provider organizations.

Hopecube.com

Hopecube.com is a site dedicated to help people with health issues find information, support, and hope. Form social networks and support groups, write daily diaries and ask health questions about a variety of problem issues.

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

How to Connect Patients and Physicians Around Your Brand

In this episode, Dr. Ball and Mr. LeVine discuss the importance of patient feedback — how to obtain it and how it can be used to better connect brands with patients and physicians in a practice setting.

How to Use an Article on Economic Analysis

Great educational tool

http://www.ispor.org/sigs/patient_registr.asp

https://www.ispor.org/news/articles/June09/AEP.asp

ICD-9 Download

Include the entire text of ICD-9-CM by year, up to 2007

Identification and Retrieval of Published Health Economic Evaluation Studies

Self study education course from National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). This module describes the definition and purpose of economic evaluation studies; outlines and highlights the characteristics of the health economic evaluation literature; outlines an effective approach to identifying and retrieving economic evaluation studies from bibliographic databases; considers how economic evaluation studies are indexed in the two major bibliographic databases, MEDLINE and EMBASE

Ingenix

Coding and reimbursement products (ICD-9, CPT-4, etc.)

Institute for Medical Technology Assessment

Based in Netherlands, they are affiliated to the University of Rotterdam and research in medical technology assessment including HEOR. Till date, they have completed over 600 projects in various areas of medicine and received funding from Govt., European Commission, WHO, health care organizations, charity foundations and parma industry

Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics

A French not-for-profit organization that analyses trends in the behavior of consumers and health care professionals from a medical, economic, geographic and sociological perspective

Institute of Health Economics

IHE is a Canadian based not-for-profit organization committed to producing, gathering, and disseminating health research findings from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment and comparative effectiveness to improve the delivery of health care

Integrated Benefits Institute

News and resources related to health & productivity research and employer research.

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.

Iranian Health Economics Website

ISPOR Forum: Patient Registry Classification, Design, Operations, Data Analysis, Reporting & Publishing: Putting All the Pieces Together

Life After Average Wholesale Price (AWP): Preparing for the Next Generation of Drug Pricing

Webinar. You can buy the recording. Recent legal action against FirstDataBank is driving industry change regarding Average Wholesale Price (AWP). Find out how new pharmacy pricing benchmarks will impact price inflation for your plan and how to respond. Plus, hear about how to achieve optimal balance of price, member cost share and utilization management for improving value and cost performance of your pharmacy benefit.

Managed Care: What's Ahead, a Forecast

Join thought leaders in the managed care industry to hear different perspectives of the challenges ahead in the 90-minute audio conference, “Forecast: What’s Ahead for Managed Care.” Sponsored by The Executive Report on Managed Care and the Managed Care Information Center, this executive-level program was held on February 23, 2006. Cost is $227 for CD + materials

Managed Markets 2007: Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Strategy, Organizational Structure and Medicare Part D

Download or purchase Report. Benchmark your managed markets department's size and structure against those of top-tier firms, mid-size companies, and small pharmas and biotechs. Identify the structural differences and strategic business drivers that differentiate companies in each of these groups, and learn about the pitfalls that commonly affect managed markets departments at each level. Use product-specific headcounts and budgets to lobby for additional resources, and prepare your company's strategy for incorporating the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit into structural changes, marketing planning and account management realignments.

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

Medicalconferences.com

A huge database of medical conferences with over 7000 upcoming events, in over 90 countries, listed. Healthcare professionals can plan their continuing education or marketing strategy by searching the database free of charge for the conference most suited to their educational needs by keywords, topics, location and date. They can even register on-line for many conferences!

MedicalMnemonics.com

You all probably remember On Old Olympus' Towering Top...well, this database has one for EVERYTHING!!! A free online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help students of health-related professions remember the important details.

Medicare 2007 Outpatient Coding and Reimbursement Final Rule Changes

oin Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor and the reimbursement experts of BESLER Consulting, a leading advisory firm in healthcare financial management and operations, to get a better understanding of the new Medicare coding and reimbursement changes for OPPS and how it will impact your organization. This live 90-minute audio conference happened on December 7, 2006. Cost is $227 for CD+materials

Medicare HMO Home Page

Oriented toward consumers, but educational.

MedicareNewsWatch.com

MediLexicon.com

A dictionary of over 200,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations. Plus medical news and searches for the medical, pharmaceutical or healthcare professional.

Medsite.com

Services include online detailing, medical education, and market research.

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 Market Expert®

Internet-based strategic planning and marketing solution that delivers detailed market analyses and projections to help you make better business decisions.

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.

Mergers and Acquisitions in the Managed Care Industry: The Trends, Issues and Impact

Hear from speakers at three leading investment banking companies that focus on merger & acquisition services in the healthcare industry for both providers and payors to learn the current trends in M&A’s, what are the issues, what are state officials' issues, what acquirers are seeking in a suitable fit, the strategic buyer's interests, and, finally, the impact on providers in a consolidated market.

Methdological Issues in Conducting PE Evaluations in Clinical Trials

Advisory Panel Report from ISPOR

Modeling Guidelines from ISPOR Task Force

Excellent review of the literature, good research practices, etc. in pdf file.

Models that Decrease Hospitalization and Improve Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries with Chronic Illnesses

A report commissioned by the National Coalition on Care Coordination by Randall Brown, PhD, Mathematica Policy Research, March 2009

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 Directory of Managed Care Organizations,

most comprehensive and thorough directory available today. The more than 700-page directory includes market intelligence information on more than 1,500 managed care organizations, representing 5,279 managed care plans. The directory is indexed eight ways for your ease of use, to make it easy to find just what you need. Click here to order for $350

National Managed Care Roundtable

Provides innovative, informational interchange programs to address the business and clinical issues of medical directors and pharmacy directors from health plans, pharmacy benefit management companies and physician groups. Typical sponsors include pharmaceutical companies, medical device, disease management and other companies offering products and services of interest to our advisors.

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.

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.

Observational Research Survey Results: Spring 2009

Results from survey conducted by J Trotter Research & Consulting on issues related to observational and registry research. Download PDF of preliminary results.

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.

Outcomes Research Fact Sheet from AHRQ

Great short primer for students, educators, and media personnel.

Outlook for Managed Care 2008

Growth/profitability projects, enrollment trends, premium outlook, speciality outlook, impact of universal healthcare proposals on MCO, predictions, etc.

P&T Perspective from The Zitter Group

The Zitter Group’s new simulated P&T meeting, P&T Perspective, offers pharmaceutical marketers objective and realistic insight into how their product will fare in a health plan P&T review. Unlike traditional Pharma sponsored mock P&T meetings, the composition and management of P&T Perspective closely mirrors the way that committees operate in the real world. The program uses Web-streaming technology to enable sponsors to watch the meeting anonymously, eliminating the bias inherent in a sponsored advisory board.

P4P and Public Reporting Help Quality Improvements

Hospitals engaged in both public reporting and pay-for-performance achieved modestly greater improvements in quality than did hospitals engaged in only public reporting, according to a study appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Patient Insights

Market segmentation tool designed to help direct-to-customer brand teams profile and attract new customers. It identifies media and lifestyle preferences for patients with clinical profiles matching your product.

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.

Pay for Performance: Lessons Learned

CD Rom + materials from a discussion of past successes and the challenges ahead in the 90-minute audio conference, “Pay-For-Performance: Lessons Learned and Future Predictions.” This executive-level program took place on March 29, 2007. Cost is $247

Payer Perspectives on Comparative Effectiveness

Xcenda’s newest report: Payer Perspectives on Comparative Effectiveness. In addition to a historical overview of CE and in-depth coverage of its current use, the report describes how CE will impact manufacturers and other stakeholders and includes a special section focused on implications for Oncology. The report also delivers key insights into the payer perspective on CE research methods and data sources. View a glimpse of the insights contained in this new report: Comparative Effectiveness: “Rational vs. Rationing” -- Payer and Physician Perspectives on How CE will Change US Healthcare

Payer Perspectives on Comparative Effectiveness

Xcenda’s newest report uncovers Payer Perspectives on Comparative Effectiveness. In addition to a historical overview of CE and in-depth coverage of its current use, the report describes how CE will impact manufacturers and other stakeholders and includes a special section focused on implications for Oncology. The report also delivers key insights into the payer perspective on CE research methods and data sources. View a glimpse of the insights contained in this new report: Comparative Effectiveness: “Rational vs. Rationing” -- Payer and Physician Perspectives on How CE will Change US Healthcare

Pharma Marketing Blog

Blog from John Mack, publisher ofPharma Marketing News, a monthly e-newsletter

Pharmaceutical Industry Info

List of Pharmaceutical Companies / Suppliers and Projects, Press Releases, News and Resources in our Directory.

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement: Strategies for market access across the US, Europe, Japan and other key geographies

Proprietary report published November 2007 by Business Insights. Cost $ 2,875.00

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Analysis of Resources, Strategy and Structure.

Download a PDF. This report analyzes the practices of some of the industry’s top pricing departments to provide the steps pricing managers must take to make their functions more integral pieces of the development puzzle. The report provides pricing leaders the tools to improve their pricing departments by comparing their spending, staffing, structure and strategies to those of top pharmaceutical companies.

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

Pharmacoeconomics: Identifying the Issues

Publication from ISPOR covering issues to consider in CEA/QOL within clinical trials, modeling, patient reported outcomes, claims analysis, etc. Good educational tool

PharmacoEthics

Dedicated to the exploration of ethical issues related to the development, promotion, sales, prescription, and use of pharmaceuticals.

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.

Power and Sample Size Calculator

Runs on Windows; produces graphs to explore relationship between power, sample size, and detectable alternative hypotheses. GREAT TOOL.

Predictors of Enrollment in Medicare Part D: Are Benificiaries Rational?

Powerpoint Presentation by Lisa Lines, MPH, of Boston Health Economics given at ISPOR 2009.

Presentation: Global Health Care Reimbursement Systems and Decision Processes Working Group of the ISPOR HTA SIG Forum: Health Care Decision Makers around the World: A Global Road Map and Country–specific Decision-Making and Reimbursement Processes

Click to see PPT Presentation

Presentation: ISPOR Conjoint Analysis in Health Task Force Forum: A Checklist for Good Research Practices for the Application of Conjoint Analysis in Health

Click to view PPT Presentation

Presentation: ISPOR Good Research Practices for the Retrospective Database Studies Task Force Forum: Good Research Practices on the Design And Analysis Of Non-Randomized Studies Of Treatment Effects Using Secondary Databases

Click to see PPT Presentation

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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PriceWaterhouse Pharma2020: The Vision

Trends and forecasting report on the status of the pharma industry for the next decade.

Primer on Outcomes Research

Download PDF or HTML. From Foundation for Health Services Research. Primer PDF is available at: http://www.healtheconomics.com/admin/addAsite.cfm

Product Approvals: FDA

Monthly listing.

QALYs: Will they survive

ISPOR QALY Consensus Development Workshop Building a Pragmatic Road: An ISPOR Development Workshop on Moving the QALY Forward (By Invitation Only) November 7–8, 2007 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Quality Improvement in Pharmacoeconomic Evaluations

Link to results of an ISPOR Task Force. This link includes a GREAT table from Mike Drummond entitled "Detecting Flaws in Economic Evaluation". GREAT resource for students

Registries and AHRQ requirements

Listen to MP3 of how patient registries assist AHRQ with quality assessment.

Retrospective Claims Analysis Issues to Consider

Advisory Panel Report from ISPOR

Salary of health economists

2005 survey of salaries from IHEA. Salaries seem very low from my experience in the industry!

Sample Size Analysis: UnifyPow

Free download from SAS

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.

Skills needed to conduct Econ evaluations

Advisory Panel Report from ISPOR

Sources and Characteristics of Information Relating to Health Care Financing in the US

Self study education course from National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). Goals of module include: 1) the significant trends in spending, outcomes, and access within the U.S. health care system; and; 2)the main sources of literature and data relating to health care financing in the U.S.

Spending by Consumers on Health Care: A Data Brief

Prepared for Congress December 2007.

Statistics.Com

Statistics Tutoring Service is a great service. Get help in introductory statistics. Simply submit your query online by 11pm Est Sunday - Thursday and in most cases you will have an answer by the next morning.leading provider of professional development courses in statistics.

Statistics: Number needed to treat

Graphic showing number needed to treat to get a benefit for various drugs

Statpages.net

Best supply of free stats programs you'll ever find.

Stats Calculator

To calculate Sensitivity, Specificity, NPV, Relative Risk, Absolute Risk, Number Needed to Treat, Odds Ratio, Relative Risk Reduction, Absolute Risk Reduction,

StatsDirect Statistical Software

This downloadable statistics package can be placed on a local machine and then used to calculate odds ratios, relative risk and other clinical measures such as Numbers Needed to Treat. It includes exact confidence intervals for all of these which is very rare.

The CEA Registry Blog

Welcome to the CEA Registry Blog by the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA. We have developed this blog to encourage interactivity among our users by allowing readers to post comments and questions about the Registry. The forum of this blog ranges from posting brief online updates to more in-depth content, enabling our users to be in-the-know about new developments and resources. We invite all comments and suggestions.

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 Data Management & Analysis Working Group's article, Analysis of Effectiveness in Patient Registry Data is published in the Policy Analysis section of the June issue of ISPOR CONNECTIONS.

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The Health Economics Blog: Trends, Politics, Opinions in the Pharma/Biotech Industry

Blogging by Ulf Stagginus. Click here to read. Great topics, take time to respond!

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.

The Pharmacoeconomics Outlook: Turning Value-For-Money Requirements Into A Competitive Advantage

Management report that assesses the impact that pharmacoeconomics has had on the pharmaceutical industry and shows how companies can utilize pharmacoeconomic modeling to gain a competitive edge. This report examines the most commonly used pharmacoeconomic methodologies with respect to both study perspective and the range of R&D costs that can be analyzed.

The Scope of Health Economics

Self study education course from National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)in 2 parts: Part 1 - outlines the scope of the subdiscipline of health economics and highlights the range of potential information required; Part 2 - outlines and highlights the type of information that may be required and key sources of that information

Use of Bayesian Techniques in Randomized Clinical Trials: A CMS Case Study

Available June 25-July 10, 2009 for public comment.

Use of Real World Data: Challenges in the Analysis of Patient Registry Data

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Wellness Incentives: Beyond Mugs and T-Shirts

Explore the types of wellness incentives that work to boost participation and, most importantly, health improvement in this special 90-minute audio conference that took place on January 25, 2007. Cost is $227 for CD + materials

What's Working in P4P: Box Set of CDs

Looking for an easy way to acquaint your team with “pay-for-performance” (P4P)? Introducing the P4P Audio Conference CD Box Set. These highly rated, executive-level telebriefings on CD are ideal for low cost, affordable team training. The programs feature four early adopter insiders providing details, metrics, payment structure, characteristics of successful programs, design principles and what's working are key points covered in three hours of high-level management discussion on details on pay for performance. Each program is 90 minutes long and includes a 30-minute question and answer session. The CDs also contain visual aids. $299

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.

Wikipedia on Health Economics

Good definition, examples, links

Worksheet for Analyzing Economic Articles

Great educational tool

Workshop 12: A Taxonomy for the Design, Development & Implementation of Patient Registries

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Workshop 9: Analysis of Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness in Patient Registries

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Xcenda Payer Pulse: Use of Comparative Effectiveness Analysis in Managed Care

Results from a panel of medical and pharmacy directors from national and regional managed care plans, including the importance of comparative effectiveness studies in decision making, future trends, frequency of conducting such studies, among others.

Xcenda Payer Pulse: Oncology Management in Managed Care

The findings represent survey responses of medical and pharmacy directors from national and regional health plans during the March 2008 Managed Care Network1 meeting. Results include variable fee schedules to incentivize oncology infusion drugs, role in specialty drugs, oncology formulary management, and future trends.

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