The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recently proposed an idea of charging the pharmaceutical industry and medical device industry for Technology Appraisals (TAs). Find out more here. (Source: leela Barham, PharmExec.com, 9/7/16) […]
Health Information Exchange Efforts are in Decline
Will the current vision for HIE efforts allow for the broad exchange of clinical data, or is there another approach that may be more successful? Read more here. (Source: Julia Adler-Milstein, Sunny C. Lin, Ashish K. Jha, HealthAffairs, July 2016) […]
Perceptions of ICER Reports and HTA in the U.S.
Michael Barry, MD, PhD, clinical director at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics in Dublin, Ireland recently initiated a session with a presentation on how Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) reports will be relevant to organizational assessments. Find out more about "Payers' use […]
Curo – LENS. Leverage the true value in your SLR.
LENS is a bespoke, secure, easy to use tool specifically designed with HEOR and MA needs in mind. The tool’s unique format allows for the efficient storage, search, retrieval and sharing of literature, research and evidence data, regardless of its original format. Gain greater insights from […]
Providers Continue IT Challenge in 2016
This Health Data Management report details how 2016 is set to be another year in which both health care providers and industry regulators continue to navigate the intricacies of transitioning to value-based care. Read more. (Source: First Report Managed Care, 1/14/16) […]
David Epstein Interview on the Future of Novartis
In this eye for pharma exclusive interview, David Epstein, CEO of Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, addresses the importance of inspirational leadership, brand reputation and patient centricity. See what he had to say here. (Source: eye for pharma) […]
Instant Health Data. A Goldmine of Healthcare Insights at Your Fingertips.
The Value Proposition. ExpertiseBHE brings a keen understanding of how to gain insights from analytics across all healthcare segments from life sciences organizations to provider groups and payers.TechnologyOur IHD platform enables organizations to perform rapid analysis across disparate data sets. […]
Is it Ethical to Refuse Sharing Healthcare Data?
Health data is coveted by big data advocates and guarded fiercely by privacy activists. How do we insure that such sensitive information that has such powerful potential for both good and bad, is treated properly? A look at Estonia, a leader in the field, may offer some perspective. Read more here. […]
How Much Do You Know About the World of Health Informatics?
How much do you know about the fast-growing field of Health Informatics? Dr. Patric Casimir of the newly formed Health Informatics program at Jacksonville University recently shared his vision of health informatics education, including the type of work that is done and the external drivers in […]
Check Out Apple’s New Medical Research Tool
The recently revealed Apple Watch may have disappointed some, with its level of healthcare capabilities much lower than rumored, however, Apple has also announced a new tool making it easier to collect medical research data and monitor patients. ResearchKit is an application program interface (API) […]
Question Is Not Whether But How To Use MCDA
In this article, Rob Baltussen outlines the present use of various criteria in reimbursement decisions on health technologies, and evaluates the potential of MCDA to guide these decisions. ISPOR membership required to read more. (Source: ISPOR, 2015) […]
What Is Stopping HIT From Reaching Its Full Potential?
Health IT has great potential to enable high-value care, but what's holding it back? David Brailer, former National Coordinator for Health IT, calls the current US architecture of health IT regulation faulty and unsustainable. Read more here. (Source: Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT, 3/4/15) […]
Formulary Data Services
The RxEOB platform collects and unifies formulary information from a variety of sources, in whatever format it is in, and then allows it to be distributed where it is needed, in the format it is needed, including governmental Part D reporting and ePrescribing integration. […]
RxEConnect
RxEOB’s RxEConnect allows health plan users to use pharmacy claims data to generate personalized communications, including cost-savings opportunities, care alerts, drug-migration, health program recruitment, as well as EOBs and TrOOP reports. […]
RxSentinel
RxSentinel, from RxEOB, is a suite of health plan branded web-applications and supporting APIs that allows pharmacy data, and the insights generated from it, to meet the informational needs of external stakeholders […]
RxMonitor
RxMonitor, from RxEOB, allows health plans to unleash the power of Pharmacy Business Intelligence. The solution is an analytic and reporting engine for gleaning insights from pharmacy data to meet the unique informatics needs of all stakeholders. […]
MyDrugBenefit
MyDrugBenefit is a health plan’s single platform for empowering consumers to more appropriately use their prescription benefit […]
Lilly Endowment awards Indiana University $4 million for new health information center
Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the university $4 million to help address ethical, legal and social issues involved in the growing use of health information to facilitate treatment and research, improve health outcomes for patients and heighten accountability. […]
Can Big Data Fix Healthcare
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Electronic Medical Data, PPT by D. Ford
Presentation at ISPOR Europe, Nov. 2011 by David Ford, MBA, FRSA, Director, Health Informatics Research Labs, Swansea University, Swansea, UK […]
Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CCER), Health Information Technology (HIT): Future Developments and Impact on Pharma and Providers
Presentation by Jean Paul Gagnon, PhD, Health Policy Consultant […]
Cost Savings From Health IT: Priceless
A RAND Corp. study suggests that the estimated the savings from electronic medical records would be about $77 billion a year. But, a new Harvard study suggests all of these claims are simply wrong. Health “information technology,” the research concluded, has yielded neither substantial efficiencies […]
Health Information Technology: Best Practices, from AHRQ
Federal Register Pubs Final Rules on Electronic Health Records
This final rule implements the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub. L. 111-5) that provide incentive payments to eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs that adopt […]
Enabling Medication Management through Health Information Technology
Medication management is one of the major components of health care. It goes beyond prescribing. Bell's medication management model describes a framework for evaluating systems based on their functional capabilities. The model shows the 5 phases in medication management: select and prescribe, […]
Developing a Distributed Research Network to Conduct Population-based Studies and Safety Surveillance – Phase 1
The overall aims of the projects are to develop and pilot test a federated computer network prototype that supports the secure analyses of health information across multiple organizations in order to study the clinical effectiveness of various medical therapies, including their risks, therapeutic […]
CEOs and Profs Debate Whether Technology Can Cut Health Care Costs
Hundreds of experts assembled at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus on the Kauffman Foundation’s dime to sit in on what became part lecture, part discussion, and part free-form intellectual improvisation on the idea of reducing health care costs through technology. […]
Update on Comparative Effectiveness and Health Information Technology Legislation and Policy Developments, and Their Impact on Pharmacoeconomics
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 […]
Data Probe
Investigative data analysis and decision support system that enables analysts, researchers, investigators and other knowledge workers to rapidly perform complex, multi-step, iterative investigation on various types of detail data from different sources. DataProbe is primarily used to manage and […]
