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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

Part Time Chair of Health Economics (0.5 FTE) The University Of Sheffield

Assoc Director, Health Economics, Outcomes & Value Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Healthcare Modeling Scientist Archimedes

Health Outcomes Research/Sr Research Analyst HealthCore

Accounting/Finance Arts & Crafts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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