Early bird registration for Asembia's Annual Specialty Pharmacy Summit ends today, according to a press release. The summit is scheduled to kick off April 29 at Wynn and Encore Las Vegas. Sylvester Stallone is the special guest speaker, according to the summit's website. Click here for more […]
Bellevue Doctor Ofri Lays Out Some Challenges with the EMR
Bellevue Hospital Physician and New York University School of Medicine Associate Professor of Medicine Danielle Ofri says electronic medical records, or EMRs, continue to put pressure on physicians. In an op-ed published Nov. 14 in the New York Times, Ofri cites a study by Annals of Family […]
CMS Posts Three New Documents
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Monday posted three new documents, including its 2019 Draft Letter to Issuers in the Federally-Facilitated Exchange. According to Health Affairs, CMS also posted the Guidance on Unified Rate Review Timeline: Proposed Timing of Submission of […]
100 Percent in Health Care: Good or Bad?
American Board of Internal Medicine President and CEO Dr. Richard Baron says hitting 100 percent in medical practice is not always the ideal, and that it could "actually lead to poor patient care." Baron in a Health Affairs blog post used a case of acute appendicitis as an example for when 100 […]
NPC Accepting Applications for Post-Doctoral Fellowship
The National Pharmaceutical Council is now accepting applications for a post-doctoral fellowship program in Washington. The fellowship program would last for two years. Interested parties must submit a cover letter or statement, resume and research paper or writing sample, according to NPC. […]
Market Access Team Structure and Function: Industry Survey 2017
New syndicated report available
This report gives a unique insight into how U.S. and European market access teams are organized and how they are focusing their time on a day-to-day basis. Market Access Team Structure and Function: Industry Survey 2017 draws on detailed survey responses from 100 market access executives within the […]
Health Exec Talks RWD in Clinical Trials
Flatiron Health CEO and Co-Founder Nat Turner says one of the challenges facing the use of real-world data in a clinical trial setting is the significant amount of data required. Turner made the comments during a videotaped interview with the American Journal of Managed Care. The executive also […]
ICER Releases Report on Tardive Dyskinesia Treatments
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) on Tuesday released an Evidence Report assessing the comparative clinical effectiveness and value of three vesicular monoamine transporter-2 (VMAT2) inhibitors for management of tardive dyskinesia (TD), a movement disorder often associated with […]
Blog: CMMI Should Focus on Bolstering Promising Models
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CCMI) should shift its focus toward improving promising payment models in conjunction with shifting priorities in the health care industry, according to a new Health Affairs blog post. The post's authors, Jeff Micklos and Clare Wrobel, note the U.S. […]
Survey Gauges Health System Preparedness for CMS Program
Via Healthcare Informatics: "A new report based on a survey of 120 health systems and integrated delivery networks indicates that most healthcare organizations are relying on electronic health records (EHRs) and population health management (PHM) solutions for quality performance management. […]
Renowned Genomics Researcher to Head National Precision Medicine Program
Geisinger Health System initiative announced last week
Geisinger Health System (GHS) says it's planning a new national program to bolster its precision medicine offerings. GHS last week announced the National Precision Medicine Initiative, which is geared toward boosting exposure for its precision medicine and genomics endeavors, FierceHealthcare […]
Researcher Urges Action Against Predatory Publishers
Lund University Division of Social Medicine and Global Health Researcher Andreas Vilhelmsson says it's "high time" for researchers to take steps against predatory publishing. However, with roughly 2.5 million scientific papers being published annually, the task at hand becomes much more […]
MIT Study: Scientists Using Wikipedia
Website is fifth most-visited in the world
According to a study conducted by MIT, scientists are using Wikipedia, which is influencing their research efforts and writing. According to a WCAI report, Wikipedia is the fifth most-visited site globally. While the revelation may be concerning for some, Neil Thompson, co-author of the study and […]
Duke Physician: Reference Pricing Helps Combat High Health Costs
Duke University Physician and Behavioral Scientist Peter Ubel says reference pricing can help employees and employers combat high health care costs. In an op-ed published Friday on Forbes, Ubel cited a study in the New England Journal which involved 55 Catholic organizations having overhauled their […]
Patient-Centered Risk Assessments – A Key Ingredient of Value-based Care
New white paper by Sandra Hewett
Download this white paper to learn how Jiva’s Clinical Assessment Protocols (CAPs) provide greater support for value-based care initiatives than traditional health risk assessments. By going beyond clinical details of chronic conditions to assess psychosocial health determinants, the […]
Blog: Do Year-End Losses on Risk-Based Deals Matter?
In a blog published Nov. 17, Deloitte Consulting LLP Healthcare Consultant Mark Bethke discusses what year-end losses mean with risk-based contracts. "Gain/risk sharing contracts typically include a target to which the provider system is measured for managing claims spending," Bethke writes. "The […]
NQF Elects New Leadership, Members
The National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Board of Directors elected Jim Chase, senior advisor for the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, and Jonathan Perlin, president of clinical services and Chief Medical Officer for the Hospital Corporation of America as its new chair and vice chair, […]
PCORI’s Selby Recaps Third Annual Meeting
Executive director says there was 'rich mix' of stakeholders
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Executive Director Joe Selby recapped PCORI's third annual meeting in a blog post published Tuesday. Selby says some 1,000 people were in attendance at this year's meeting, with a "rich mix" of stakeholders. "It was gratifying to see such a diverse […]
Artificial Intelligence in the Pharma Industry
New Syndicated Report
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can positively disrupt many of pharma's business areas and processes. From smarter drug candidate identification and repurposing older products to faster clinical trial recruitment and improved clinician/patient education and support. But pharma remains dangerously […]
What’s Stopping Employers From Acting on Their PBMs?
Drug Channels Institute CEO Adam Fein details some of the challenges facing employers who are unsatisfied with their pharmacy benefit managers. Citing results from the National Pharmaceutical Council's Toward Better Value Survey, Fein says an "as-yet-unexplained market failure" appears to be […]
Video Breaks Down Results-Based Contracts
Biopharmaceutical companies and insurers are working to develop new payment methods to help patients afford innovative treatment options. Results-based contracts, according to a video published Monday by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, are arrangements which involve […]
Registration Opens for AMCP’s Boston Meeting
Registration is now open for the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy's 2018 Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy meeting in Boston. The meeting is slated to kick off April 23 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Click here for more information about the meeting. […]
ICER Releases Report on Voretigene Neparvovec, Gene Therapy for Blindness
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review(ICER) today released a Draft Evidence Report assessing the comparative clinical effectiveness and value of voretigene neparvovec (Spark Therapeutics), a potentially one-time gene therapy for vision loss due to biallelic RPE65-mediated inherited retinal […]
ISPOR Issues Call for Abstract/Proposal Reviewers
The International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research is looking for volunteers to review research abstracts, workshop proposals and issue panel proposal submissions. Volunteers would be placed on the Research Abstract, Workshop Proposal, or Issue Panel Proposal Review Committees for […]
A Look at Pros, Cons of Quality Measure Choices in MACRA, MIPS
RevCycleIntelligence.com's Jacqueline Belliveau in her report breaks down some of the pros and cons of quality measure choices in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and its Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Click here to read Belliveau's full write up on […]
Writers Tout Long-Term Benefits of Universal Health Care
Writers Walter McClure, Alain Enthoven and Tim McDonald say universal health care in the U.S., "if done right," could produce big returns to the economy, outweighing any costs to American taxpayers. "A health population is abler, more productive, and less costly," the authors write in a Health […]
Frank, Ginsburg: Is More Innovation Always a Good Thing?
The authors of a Health Affairs blog post published Monday are taking jabs against the pharmaceutical industry's most common argument in favor of rising drug costs: lower prices will lead to less innovation. Richard Frank and Paul Ginsburg say the argument, to an extend, does hold water — that less […]
Laws Targeting Cancer Drug Costs Falling Short
By Arlene Weintraub Via Forbes When state legislators started enacting laws in 2011 to prevent insurance companies from charging patients more for oral cancer drugs than they do for cheaper, infused medicines, the idea was to shield the public from sky-high, out-of-pocket drug costs. But a new […]
Shire CEO Ornskov Touts Outcomes-Based Deals
Biotech company Shire's chief executive, Flemming Ornskov, says rare disease firms will continue to move toward outcomes-based payment systems, charging health systems only when therapies are shown to have worked. The increasing demand for rare disease drugs, however, is doing little to help in the […]
2017 ICHOM Conference Content Now Available
Video content from the 2017 International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) conference is now available to stream online or via flash drive. The conference was held Oct. 25-26 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C. Interested parties can purchase access to either an online […]
