In today's world of scare resources, determining the optimal allocation of funds to preventive health care interventions (PHIs) is a challenge. The upfront investments needed must be viewed as long term projects, the benefits of which we will experience in the future. The long term positive change […]
Health economics for non-economists
Health economics is about making wise investments in health and health care. The purpose of this book is to make readers familiar with the principles, methods and pitfalls of health economic evaluations. This book will help everyone who is involved in health and health care to understand the methods […]
Health Economics and Policy
Victor Fuchs offers a selection of his public lectures, articles, papers, and op-eds during the past 50 years. Also included are forewords by Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, and Victor Dzau, MD, president of the National Academy of Medicine. Organized in eight parts, it begins […]
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
New York Times bestseller; Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system — and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American […]
Biopharma Consultant Releases New Book
"MoneyBall Medicine: Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market"
A well-known consultant for the biopharmaceutical and diagnostics industries, Harry Glorikian, recently released his latest book titled "MoneyBall Medicine: Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market." Klorikian in 2016 also published "Commercializing Novel IVDs: Comprehensive Manual for […]
New Book: “Fixing Medical Prices”
Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. Doctors at the frontlines of medical care who manage complex conditions argue that they receive disproportionately lower fees than physicians performing […]
New Book: “How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us: The Discipline at a Crossroads”
This book provides an eye-opening exposé on economics professors that will surely shock anyone who is not familiar with the topic, and even some of those who are familiar with it. It is critical of the behavior of economics professors, but is not critical of the field of economics itself. In fact, […]
Navigating to Value in Healthcare
Where data already exist, many healthcare leaders don't know how to find, retrieve, organize and leverage them for their needs. Navigating to Value in Healthcare author Thom Walsh, PhD, creates an antidote for this situation. You'll learn how to create systems and processes that help to leverage […]
Medical Writing: The Backbone of Clinical Development
Book Release: The Future of Health Economics
The Future of Health Economics offers a window into some of the most influential emerging issues in pharmacoeconomics, including risk-sharing, alternative pricing models, personalized medicine, and the changing role of government and regulators. Ulf Staginnus and Olivier Ethgen, themselves two of […]
What Do Your Google Searches Say About You?
Everybody Lies - Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, is now available for purchase! From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than twenty years ago, seemed unfathomable. […]
Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation
The much anticipated second edition of Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation is now out and on sale. People working in health economics, public sector economics, pharmacoeconomics and health services research will find it quite interesting. Available for purchase here. […]
ISPOR Book Sale!
The perfect addition to your HEOR reference library, these ISPOR books, written and developed by ISPOR Special Interest Groups, are excellent resources for health care outcomes researchers and decision makers. Members receive a significant discount! Order yours here. (Source: ISPOR) […]
New Book Release: Introduction to Market Access for Pharmaceuticals
Market access is the fourth hurdle in the drug development process and the primary driver for global income of any new drug. Without a strategy in place for pricing, showing value for effectiveness and an understanding of the correct purchasers needs, the drug will fail to reach its intended market […]
Do We Judge Women’s Decisions Differently?
Cognitive psychologist Therese Huston's new book is How Women Decide: What's True, What's Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices. It may sound unscientific to suggest there's a particular way that several billion people make decisions, but the author doesn't seem nonchalant about drawing […]
Forecasting- Can You Beat the Professionals?
One of Evidence Soup's top 5 links of the week on evidence-based decision making, check out the book: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. Are regular people capable of beating the professionals at their own game? This book says yes! Find out more here. (Source: Evidence Soup, […]
Can a Simple Coin Toss Study Prove the Hot Hand Exists?
One of Evidence Soup's 5 links of the week: Is the hot hand making a comeback? Check out Tom Gilovich's How We Know What isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life. See more here. (Source: Evidence Soup, 10/6/15) […]
Get the New Edition of Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs Today!
The new edition of Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes is now available to pre-order on amazon.com. The fourth edition of this best selling textbook on economic evaluation in health care has 45% more material than the third edition, and a new author, Karl Claxton. Available […]
Complete Course Textbook on Cost Effectiveness Modeling in HTA
This book provides an introduction to decision analytic cost-effectiveness modelling, giving the theoretical and practical knowledge required to design and implement analyses that meet the methodological standards of health technology assessment organizations. The book is available for purchase as […]
Health Care Cost, Quality and Outcomes: ISPOR Book of Terms
HEALTH CARE COST, QUALITY, AND OUTCOMES: ISPOR BOOK OF TERMS builds on ISPOR's first publication, ISPOR LEXICON First Edition, to promote and facilitate greater understanding of health care outcomes research and its use in health care decisions. This book is targeted to health care professionals and […]
Therapeutic and Diagnostic Device Outcomes Research
An outcomes research primer for those in the therapeutic and diagnostic device field with the purpose to inform:Health outcomes researchers on the unique characteristics of therapeutic and diagnostic devices, andMedical device developers and researchers on the basic principles of clinical, economic, […]
ISPOR Taxonomy of Patient Registries: Classification, Characteristics and Terms
The ISPOR Taxonomy of Patient Registries: Classification, Characteristics and Terms demystifies the world of patient registries by providing a working definition and describing distinguishing characteristics of a patient registry. It also defines terms used in the design, development, and […]
Reliability and Validity of Data Sources for Outcomes Research & Disease and Health Management Programs
This handbook provides an overview of the sources of data for conducting ‘real-world’ outcomes research. The reader will learn how to use and assess the reliability and validity of electronic health records, medical charts, claims and medication databases, alternative population-based data sources, […]
Check Out These Outcomes Research Books from ISPOR
ISPOR outcomes research books are products of ISPOR Special Interest Groups (SIG). These books are excellent resources for health care outcomes researchers and decision makers. The following books are available for purchase here: Reliability and Validity of Data Sources for Outcomes Research […]
5 Sources for the Right Healthcare Data: Bigger isn’t Always Better
A curated topic-specific book to help identify potential sources of freely available healthcare data for content media, white papers, blogs, brand or content marketing, funding proposals, or be-spoke content creation. Available for purchase here. (Source: Bonny McClain, amazon) […]
Pharmacists: Off-The-Beaten-Career-Paths
Erin Albert returns to the Pharmacy Podcast Show – with some advice for our #Pharmacy Future Leaders and recent graduates of Pharmacy. See more here. (Source: Pharmacy Podcast, 5/23/15) […]
Plan C: The Full-Time Employee and Part Time Entrepreneur
Plan C: The Full-Time Employee and Part-Time Entrepreneur by: Erin Albert This book is about Plan C: Don't chuck the day job, keep it. Don't chuck the entrepreneurial dream, keep that too. DO BOTH! Work the full-time day job, and create the entrepreneurial dream on the side. You'll be […]
Single. Women. Entrepreneurs.
Single. Women. Entrepreneurs. by: Erin Albert The number of unmarried adult women actually outnumbers the number or married women for the first time in US history, according to the Population Reference Bureau, in October, 2010. Women are now earning more, going to college and graduate […]
The Life Science Lawyer
The Life Science Lawyer by: Erin Albert Health care and life sciences are increasingly complex. There are many global players in life sciences and healthcare-patients, governments, hospitals, managed care companies, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies and pharmacies […]
The New Pharmacist: 46 Doses of Advice
The New Pharmacist: 46 Doses of Advice by: Erin Albert Pharmacy school was the easy part. This book addresses the much more difficult part for newly licensed pharmacists: what comes after pharmacy school? This practical, yet inspirational book is for pharmacists 0-10 years into their […]
