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Health Care Reform — Where Do We Go from Here?

"Interpreting Hazards: The Increasing Importance of "Antidote to Anecdote" in Managed Care" by Fairman et al

"Is "Value-Based" Value Wasted? Examining Value-Based Insurance Designs Through the Lens of Cost-Effectiveness" by Melnick et al

58% of Surgeries Performed in Hospitals are Outpatient, According to AHRQ/HCUP survey.

AHRQ Introduces New Online Technical Tutorial Series With First Module on HCUP Sample Design

Doctors Face 21% Cut In Medicare Payments.

AMCP Issues Summary of White House Health Care Reform Summit

Maximus To Continue Reviewing Medicare Part D Plan Coverage Determinations

Pharmacoeconomics to Get Bigger Budgets, According to Preliminary Survey Results (Source=Marketwire)

Healthcare Rationing by Proxy: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and the Misuse of the $50,000 Threshold in the US by Bridges et al.

The AMCP Format for Formulary Submissions, Version 3.0

Statistical Data Resources from AMCP for benchmarking in managed care

UnitedHealthcare has launched an innovative program that offers $20 discounts off certain prescription drug co-payments

Healthcare Technology News: National Health Expenditures Top 17% of GDP

UnitedHealthcare Creates Adult National Cancer Care Registry with Data and Analysis to Support Oncologists in the Fight against Cancer

Novartis’s Afinitor Cancer Drug Rejected by U.K. Cost Agency

NEJM: “Giving Teeth to Comparative-Effectiveness Research — The Oregon Experience” by Saha et al.

Oncology Innovative Pricing deal with NICE on lung cancer drug

“Medication Adherence and Enrollment in a Consumer-Driven Health Plan” by Chen,

FDA News: NICE Outlines Appeals Process for Drug Determinations

IBI: More Than Health Promotion: How Employers Manage Health and Productivity

PR Hub: NICE Recommends Approval of New Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Treatment Cimzia(R) (certolizumab pegol) With First of its Kind RA Patient Access Scheme

Healthcare Technology News: Privacy Survey - In Providers We Trust

NEJM article: ‘ Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover’ by K. Baicker and A. Chandra

NEJM article: ‘ “Play-or-Pay” Insurance Reforms for Employers — Confusion and Inequity’ by B. Herring and M.V. Pauly

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: Cost-effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity: a modelling study

Do Health Politicians Really Listen to Health Economists? Observations from Europe by Mittendorf et al.

The Hospitalist: Evidence-Based Medicine Curveball

Health Care Reform and the Need for Comparative-Effectiveness Research

January 2010 Newsletter and Eisenberg Conference Series 2009 Are Now Available

Disease Management Care Blog: 10 Predictions for the Next Decade

Managed Care Vendor Sales Insight Article: Blue Cross Plans Join Initiative To Increase Transparency

Conference: Patient Experience and Patient Safety Culture, April 19-21

Funny Pharmacy Videos. These are Hysterical! Particularly "The PharmG's - Boom Intervention" Rap


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books

A View from Washington: Federal Policy in Relation to Allied Health Over Two Decades
In a series of 31 essays originally published in the Journal of Allied Health over a 20-year period, this book surveys the development of federal health policy as it relates to allied health.
Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development: Innovative Methods and Applications
Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development: Innovative Methods and Applications | by Tho Manh Nguyen (ed) | 2010 | ISBN: 9781605667485. Computer Reference Guide. IT Reference Guide. Data Warehouse Architectures. Data Warehouse Design Methodology.
Economic Evaluation in Child Health
Economic Evaluation in Child Health Editor: Wendy Ungar Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-0-19-954749-4 Publication Date: 08 October 2009 Binding: Paperback Pages: 336
Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials
This book provides a practical guide to conducting economic evaluation in ongoing clinical trials. It covers issues and techniques related to the collection of both cost and outcome data, as well as a framework for reporting and interpreting economic reports from clinical trials. This is illustrated by detailed supporting examples and exercises, designed to teach the reader how to apply this model. These exercises are supported with datasets, programmes and solutions made available online.
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research (ISSN 1473-7167) provides expert reviews on cost-benefit and pharmacoeconomic issues relating to the clinical use of drugs and therapeutic approaches. (Source: Expert-Reviews.com, Dec. 2009)
Linguistic Validation Manual for Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Instruments
Linguistic Validation Manual for Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Instruments. (Source: Quality of Life Journal, Springer Link Book Review, 2005)
Pharmacoeconomics and Economic Evaluation of Drug Therapies
Book chapter describing marginal costs, benefits, cost effectiveness analysis, and methodological issues. (Source: Tom Walley, M.D. Professor of Clinical Pharmacology Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool)
Pharmacoeconomics: From Theory to Practice
Pharmacoeconomics: From Theory to Practice provides an introduction to the major concepts and principles of pharmacoeconomics and cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA). (Source: Renee J. G. Arnold, CRC Press, 2010)
Pharmacoeconomics: From Theory to Practice (Drug Discovery) (Hardcover)
Pharmacoeconomics: From Theory to Practice provides an introduction to the major concepts and principles of pharmacoeconomics and cost-effectiveness analysis. (Source: Renee J. G. Arnold, CRC Press, 2009 & 2010)
Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Principles to Practice
Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Principles to Practice', Edited by Drs. Scott Waldman and Andre Terzic, Elsevier.
PR Web:Researchers Tackle Pattern Recognition In Complex Correlation Data to Unleash New Research Insights
In an attempt to make research easier for everybody, Drs. Frank Walkey and Garry Welch collaborate to bring a highly informative book. Demystifying Factor Analysis: How It Works and How To Use It, an Xlibris release, provides readers with insights into the practical use of factor analysis through clear and readable text with illustrative examples.
Principles in Health Economics and Policy
Principles in Health Economics and Policy is a clear and concise introduction to health economics and its application to health policy. (Source: Jan Abel Olsen, Oxford University Press, August 2009)
Researchers Tackle Pattern Recognition In Complex Correlation Data to Unleash New Research Insights
Drs. Frank Walkey and Garry Welch collaborate to bring a highly informative book. Demystifying Factor Analysis: How It Works and How To Use It, an Xlibris release, provides readers with insights into the practical use of factor analysis through clear and readable text with illustrative examples. (Source=PR WEb)
The Economics of Health Reconsidered
Intended as a text for health economics classes, this edition is revised and more complete. Authors: Thomas Rice and Lynn Unruh Edition: Third Publisher: Health Administration Press (Chicago)
The Economics of New Health Technologies
Book: The Economics of New Health Technologies Incentives, Organization, and Financing. (Source: Editors: Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage, and Alistair McGuire , Oxford University Press, May 2009)
The ISPOR BOOK: Reliability and Validity of Data Sources for Outcomes Research & Health and Disease Management
The ISPOR Health & Disease Management Special Interest Group has completed the first draft of this handbook for health and disease management practitioners, payers, and researchers. It provides a comprehensive overview of the available U.S. and international data sources, including an assessment of their reliability and validity, methods used to examine these data, and approaches for experimental and retrospective research designs. It also includes an international section with health care systems in more than 30 countries, their data sources and data adaptation & transferability.




 

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