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

Senior Research Economist RTI International

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

Tenure Track Outcomes Research Faculty University of Utah Department of Pharmacotherapy

Associate Director, Health Economics RTI International

Ask Your Virtual Pharmacist

A liscensed pharmacist will answer drug questions involving herbals, drug interactions, or other therapies for free.

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.

Drug Formulary, University of Wisconsin

Searchable drug formulary database including cost comparisons. Lots of information comparing antimicrobials.

ePrescribe Florida

ePrescribe Florida is a collaborative framework of industry stakeholders working together to help accelerate physician adoption of electronic prescribing by fostering cooperation and coordination among prescribing constituents.

excellRX

Market leader in pharmaceutical care for niche disease markets, providing expert medication consultation and pharmaceutical distribution services. Combining proprietary technology and clinical experience, excelleRx ensures the appropriate use of medication, and thereby enhances quality of life. Also has a Medication Management Artificial Intelligence database: Our proprietary medication management system includes clinical decision support tools and a team of highly specialized doctorate level pharmacists.

Express Scripts

More than 50 million members, rich and diverse database on drug usage and demographics, and a history of partnering with pharmaceutical companies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pharma Marketing Blog

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

PharmaCE - Pharmacist & Technician Continuing Education

PharmaCE enables you to select continuing education articles published within the last three years from either The Annals of Pharmacotherapy or the journal of Pharmacy Technology.

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.

Pharmacy Schools

Pharmacy career resource featuring a school directory, pharmacy articles, and career guide. Research schools and request FREE information

PharmacyChoice.Com

Pharmacist news, jobs, industry information, etc. Great meta-site.

PharmacyNOW

Superb mentoring and employment site for pharmacy professionals. Jobs, salaries, discussion, audio interviews with high-profile pharmacy mentors, and much more.

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.

PharmDUR

Pharmaceutical auditing company, specializing in Physician Academic Detailing, Patient Drug Utilization Reviews, and Pharmacy Verification Audits.

PharmWeb

Extensive site for "all things pharmacy" (newsgroups, databases, schools, chat, etc.)

Product Approvals: FDA

Monthly listing.

RPhWorld.Com

Searchable collection related to daily practice. Includes renal dosing, drug interaction checks, drug use in pregnancy, and toxicity antidotes.

Rx List

Free, searchable database of more than 4,000 prescription and over the counter (US) drug products on the web. Currently contains simple information, such as generic and brand name, and therapeutic category. Contains Top 200 prescribed drugs.

Schools of Pharmacy: Directory based on PharmWeb

Worldwide listing in searchable database.

US Pharmacopoeia

Official public standards-setting authority for all prescription and over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, and other healthcare products manufactured and sold in the United States.

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New paid database for Health Economic articles: Health Economics Network

FDA to hire 1,300 as criticism grows

QALY Threshold revised to $129,000/QALY for dialysis: Wharton study

June 9-11, Summer Institute in Pharmacoepidemiology and Outcomes in Rhode Island, USA

Conference: Field-based Dissemination of Scientific Information, 5/19-20/2008, Philadelphia

Conference: Rx Benefit Management for Employers and Health Plans July 21-22, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV.

Training Course: Regression Methods for Health Economic Eval. (Univ of York) , Sept 9-11, 2008

Blog: HealthPopuli

FDA Draft Guidance: Distribution on Unapproved Uses of Drugs or Devices

HealthEconomics.Com and Dr. Peeples featured in recent publication

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'Dar He Blogs: Health Economics blog by MD/PhD from Yale

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