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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



consulting/services

3D-HR HealthResearch
Health consultancy group. Website is hard to navigate.
Abacus Employer Health Solutions
Abacus works with employers and plan administrators to improve the health and wellness of their members, which then directly reduces costs. Our innovative programs use incentives to engage members in healthy behaviors that support the evidence-based guidelines of care and help you track participation in those health activities. Abacus is not a health plan, insurance company, or broker. We are a consulting company that helps employers design programs and benefits to drive employees to healthy behaviors. We have solutions for employers of all sizes and in all industries. Abacus specializes in designing and implementing Value-Based benefit plan designs.
Abacus International
Abacus International specialises in health economics, HTA submissions, medical writing, and market access. With offices near Oxford and Manchester, UK Abacus has delivered health economic and market access solutions to clients in over 25 countries. Our client base includes the global and local affiliates of many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical and device companies. Our large and highly experienced team includes specialists in modelling, health economics, medical writing, systematic review and multi-media programming. Our deliverables include: Systematic literature review; Patient registries Health economic models; HTA submissions (>80% approval rate; Budget impact calculators for sales teams.
Abt Associates
Specializing in social and economic policy, international development, business research, and clinical trials and registries. Includes the Hercules Registry group.
Accent Health
Integrated health education company
ACCESS-it
French economics and health systems consulting group.
Actuaries
Actuarial consulting
AdRes Health Economics & Outcomes Research
Italian and European consulting company, specialised in advanced modeling, support software, statistical modeling and data elaboration. Based in Torino, Italy.
Aegis Net--International Network for Health Care Research
Six (5 European + US) health economic and outcomes research consulting companies in order to provide an innovative integrated service in response to the demand for economic and outcomes information.
Aequitas
Independent research and analysis firm that provides valuation and strategic planning services, focusing on health economics, health technology assessment, and reimbursement economics.
AHRM Inc.
AHRM Inc. specializes in applied healthcare resource management for clinical trials, data management, post market surveillance, regulatory compliance and many other areas. Contact us today and let us help you with your needs.
AiM GmbH
AiM GmbH is a health-economic consultant company providing the following service: - Global Value Dossiers (GVD) and Health Technology Assessment Reports (HTA) - Health economic analysis and modelling - Reimbursement research for medical technologies in Europe - Systematic literature reviews
Alliance Concepts
Alliance Concepts introduces PHARMAWISER Simulator, an interactive and dynamic simulator for optimizing transnational pricing strategy. PHARMAWISER integrates all key marketing and pricing variables, including impacts of parallel import, national and international price benchmarking, price elasticity & affordability.
AMAC
American Medical Accounting and Consulting provides both billing and consulting services to physicians, hospitals, freestanding facilities, universities and private practices throughout the United States.
Analysis Group/Economics
Provides economic (pricing, CEA), financial, and business strategy consulting to law firms, corporations, and government agencies.
Analytica International
Analytica International integrates outcomes research, commercial insights, and a full service clinical trials capability
AndoverEcon Health Economics Research and Consulting
AndoverEcon provides research and consulting services in the areas of health economics, health services research, healthcare program evaluation, and investment analysis within the health services industry.
Annovak Services & Solutions
By bringing extensive strategic, scientific and operational expertise in pricing & reimbursement and post-approval observational research, Anovak-Services helps you plan a direct way to optimal funding of your innovative health technology in the Netherlands and other EU countries. We have in-depth knowledge of the EU-funding systems and access to important decision-makers. You can expect a professional, responsive and solution-orientated team to support your organization.
Applied Health Psychology (AHP) Research
Applied Health Psychology (AHP) Research provides consultancy, research, training and dissemination serviecs in patient-reported outcomes
Applied Research Northwest
Applied Research Northwest (ARN) offers social scientific research
Arnold Consultancy & Technology LLC
Pharmaceutical health economics and outcomes research consultancy, specializing in technology solutions to improve efficiency of collecting, collating and presenting your data to various audiences. With concentrations in health economic modeling, Phase III, III-1/2 and IV online, observational, retrospective and prospective outcomes studies, retrospective database analyses and user-friendly models.
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.
ATP Consulting Ltd
Consultants in healthcare market access for the UK and Europe; cost modelling of treatment pathways and treatments; reimbursement strategy.
Austin Provider Solutions
Managed care business intelligence solutions. APS provides a customizable services to support the NCQA HEDIS Reporting Process, including consulting services for HEDIS and Quality Improvement Projects - from basic education to oversight and management of the process.
Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH)
ACERH is an independent research centre that was established in 2005 with a large grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) under the Health Services Research Program. The Centre is Australia’s first inter-university centre for health economics. It comprises research staff and students at three of Australia’s research-intensive (Group of Eight) universities: The Australian National University, The University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia and others
Avalere Health LLC
Strategic advisory firm in the healthcare field located in Washington, DC; staffed by individuals with experience from CMS, FDA, White House OMB, CBO, DHHS, state Medicaid programs, and the United States Congress. Also provides educational services. Previously known as Health Strategies Consultancies.
Avalon Health Solutions, Inc.
A Clinical Effectiveness, Health Outcomes, and Economics Research Organization providing research capabilities to the global bio-pharmaceutical industry.
BAP Health Outcomes Research
Outcomes Research and Health Economics Consultancy Company located in Spain. Design, cultural adaptation and validation of Health questionnaires. Design and development of Health Outcomes Research Projects. Statistical data analyses. Medical Writing. Pharmacoeconomical analyses. Investigation protocols and CRFs design. Bibliographic search and reviews. Slide and posters presentations. Conferences. Custom solutions for HealthCare Markets”
Base-Case, webinterface software for health economic models and cost-effectiveness analysis
Sofware company Base-Case develops webinterface software to access and customize health economic models and cost-effectiveness analysis on the internet
BCN Health
A consultancy in Spain that specializes in health economics, modeling, epidemiology, market access, RCT and observational study design, and medical writing
Benfield Group
Strategic/tactical planning and implementation support to achieve market segment positioning goals while capitalizing on opportunities to expand therapeutic demand, improve and protect access and grow share for their products. Also provide Employer Human Capital Consulting Practic to lower costs and improve human capital performance through strategic planning and implementation support services that align health and human capital resources to attain key business objectives. Patient Advocation: "niche-market" consulting through the strategic development of patient-led advocacy and education programs.
Bio Med Com Consultants
A Canadian company specializing in the application of health and health economic research
BioAbility
Provider of strategic business information related to biotechnology and pharmaceuticals (lit search, market research, competitor analysis, competitive intelligence, incidence and prevalence data, etc.)
Biomedical Statistical Consulting
Provides the highest quality data management and statistical analyses in support of medical research and clinical trials.
BioScrip (formerly Chronimed)
Formed from strategic merger of Chronimed Inc and MIM Corp. Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care solutions. We partner with healthcare payors, pharmaceutical manufacturers, government agencies, physicians and patients, to deliver cost-effective pharmaceutical medications and programs that enhance the quality of patient life.
Bitran & Associates
Consulting firm based in Santiago de Chile and with an office in Panamá City. World Bank Institute teaching the Flagship Course on Health Economics in Spanish and English.
Boolean Research Consulting Services
Boolean Research is a consultancy company offering services in clinical study design, methodology and conduct & medical writing. Specializes in health outcome research, epidemiological and pharma-epidemiological research, systematic reviews of the literature, medical writing.
Boston Health Economics, Inc.
Full-service outcomes research organization specializing in the economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and disease management programs.
Boston Healthcare Associates
Biopharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic clients rely on Boston Healthcare to achieve their objectives through reimbursement and market access strategy, health economics and outcomes analysis, market and pricing strategies, and business development support—all delivered to help clients capture value. Boston Healthcare's unique approach, combining strategic consulting with a deep understanding of the evidence-driven value environment, gives clients a real-world edge to create opportunities, navigate complexity, grow their businesses, and achieve their objectives.
Brandeis University Schneider Institutes for Health Policy
Since 1978, conducting research, policy analysis and technical assistance on broad issues facing the health care system in the United States and selected countries abroad in 3 major areas: Acute and chronic health through The Institute on Healthcare Systems, Behavioral health within the Institute for Behavioral Health, and International Health.
Bridgehead
Provider of strategic business information related to biotechnology and pharmaceuticals (market research, competitor analysis, competitive intelligence, etc.). Bridgehead also have a market access group specializing in pricing, reimbursement and market access.
Campbell Alliance Group
Specialized management consulting firm serving pharmaceutical companies and other suppliers to the healthcare industry,including Business Strategy and Planning, Operations Improvement, Marketing Strategy, Business Development and Knowledge Management.
Capital Healthcare Planning
Specialized strategic facility planning and capital planning consulting firm serving the healthcare industry. Also has experience in service line development and branding.
Cardinal Health Pharmacy Management
we track and provide best practice guidelines for the top five drug categories, including anti-infectives, which normally account for 20% or more of a hospital's total pharmaceutical spend. Moreover, we also offer the ability to track actual drug cost by DRG. Click onConsulting, they provide: APC Optimization Solutionsm, a cost–effective service designed to optimize pharmaceutical reimbursement. Click on Pharmacy Management: proprietary clinical assessment tool tracks and trends utilization of pharmaceuticals and provides benchmark comparisons among hospitals of similar size and service.
CareScience Client Patient Database
Noe a part of Premier Healthcare Alliance. The database contains patient level UB92 data with detailed resources that encompass all billable items including detailed pharmacy utilization. This database also contains detailed patient flow through the hospital via the storage of detailed ADT (Admission, Discharge and Transfer) information. The database also has been risk adjusted using the CareScience algorithms that provide the following: - LOS Outcome deviations - Mortality Outcome deviations - Complication assignment and outcome deviations - Morbidity assignment and outcome deviations - Cost and Charge Outcome deviations
Caro Research
Independent consulting firm specializing in pharmacoeconomics, outcomes research and technology assessment. Now a part of United Biosource Corporation.
Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment (CAHTA)
The CAHTA provides information based on scientific evidence and the analysis of the health scenario, its endpoint being to ensure that the introduction, adoption and utilisation of medical technologies is carried out according to criteria of efficacy, safety, effectiveness and efficiency which have been scientifically demonstrated, as well as offering support to decision-making at different levels of the health system. Moreover, its core functions include planning, coordination and assessment of health research in the field of health centres, services and establishments linked to the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut) with a view to promoting research geared towards the health needs of the population and of knowledge of the health system
CATALYST Health Economics Consultants
International health outcomes research consultancy that performs health economics and quality-of-life studies across all areas of medicine and health technologies.
Cato Research Ltd
Full-service contract research and development organization facilitating the passage of new drugs, biologics and medical devices through the regulatory approval process. Services include regulatory strategies, trial conduct and monitoring, statistical analysis, cost-effectiveness and quality of life analysis, and reporting.
CEMKA-EVAL
French consulting specialising in Health Economics, PharmacoEconomics, Epidemiology, Outcomes Research, Quality of Life, and Health Policy Analysis.
Center for Health Care Strategies
National non-profit devoted to improving the quality of health services for beneficiaries served by publicly financed care, especially those with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Work focuses on three main goals: Improve health care quality; Reduce racial and ethnic disparities; and Integrate acute and long-term care.
Center for Outcomes Research
John Mackowiak at the Center for Outcomes Research has been conducting a full range of outcomes related projects for his clients for the past 14 years. He provides a wide variety of outcomes-related services with a personal hands-on approach. His emphasis is on producing results that have value to US Managed Care decision makers. Call him at 919-942-9903 for more information.
Centrum HTA
A consulting firm based in Krakow, Poland specializing in clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness assessments and budget impact analyses
CernerGalt
Galt's consulting services include evidence-based drug safety and risk management solutions
CHD - Consultants for Health and Development
International consulting group, specializing in public health and development. CHD offers its services to governments, non governmental organizations, bilateral and international organizations, and financing agencies such as the Development Banks, the European Union, and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
China Healthcare Consulting, Inc.
Business service support company assisting small and medium-sized foreign companies enter the rapidly growing Chinese healthcare market. In collaboration with our global consulting partners, CHCC can also help our clients reach other important regional markets such as the United States, Europe, Japan and South Korea. We operate in the United States in Los Angeles, the greater Boston area and in Beijing, China. Our affiliated partners in China are located in economically developed cities in China such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Xiamen.
Chronic Care and Disability Research
Medstat provides its customers with the long-term care data and analysis they need to identify the optimal care settings and delivery models for providing services to the elderly and people with disabilities; how these services be financed; What should service packages include?
Clinical Trials Net, Inc.
Clinical research trial data management program using clinical trials software system that allows research personnel to easily conduct their activities in full compliance with HIPAA and FDA regulatory guidelines.
Communications for Healthcare Thought Leaders
Part of "Be Seen. Be Heard. Inc" Use thought leadership to drive your communications on all fronts.
Consultation Angelo Inc.
Consultation Angelo Inc. (CA Inc.) provides distance-based health economics solutions to health care providers and payors to optimize their patients' health outcomes. Currently specializing in medical writing and database analysis, CA Inc. offers various other services as well.
Consumer Directed Health Plans Research Report
The Consumer-Directed Health Market: Implications of New Benefit Designs by The Zitter Group
Consumer Health Sciences/Kantar Health
Consumer Health Sciences/Kantar Health is a leading source of disease-specific consumer health information for the pharmaceutical and life science industries. In addition to our flagship product, the annual National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS) database, we offer a custom consulting approach in support of brand value propositions and publication strategy.
COPERA Group
Fully functional alliance of European and North American consultancies, including Oxford Outcomes (UK, US, Canada), Neos Health (Germany, Switzerland, Austria), JNBD (France), Charta (Italy), 3D Research (Spain) and PharmEcon(Scandinavia). The group has now successfully delivered a number of multi-country studies that establish the group as an effective international alliance in health economics and outcomes research.
Coping Systems
Coping Systems is a leader in the field of medical informatics - dedicated to helping healthcare providers reduce costs while continuously improving quality of care, patient safety and treatment outcomes. Coping Systems' unique combination of software and services provides effective solutions in the areas of: Clinical Workflow Automation; Post-Treatment Surveillance; Outcome Analysis and Safety Surveillance; Regulatory and Registry Data Submission; Clinical Trial Accounting. Contact us to discuss collaboration.
Cornerstone Research Group Inc.
Independent consulting firm conducting health economic research to identify, demonstrate, and communicate product value.
Corporate Translations
They are a leading provider of translation and linguistic validation solutions specializing in QoL and clinical trial instruments
Covance - The Development Services Company
One of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies. Has Market Access SErvices (formerly Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services/Health Technology Associates, Inc) ( http://www.covance.com/marketaccess/services.php ) which offers reimbursement strategies, analysis and modeling, patient-report outcomes research, registries ( http://www.covance.com/periapproval/svc_registry.php ) and Phase IV programs.
CPM Marketing Group
CPM is a pioneer in the development of database marketing technology, delivery systems, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
Creativ-Ceutical
Creativ-Ceutical is an international consulting firm dedicated to supporting the life science industry and health authorities in strategic decision making. We provide our customers with tailor-made solutions to their Market Access, Pricing, Health Economics, Portfolio Management and Licensing, Market Research and Forecasting issues.
Danish Institute for Health Services Research
Data Mining International
Data Mining International is leader in advanced statistical analyses and modelling. This independant privte research agency is the first to be specialized in clinical data re-analyses, small populations significance simulations and multi-criteria analyses. Data Mining International is a unique Hub of expertise allowing Pharma companies, biotech, medtech and international organizations developing new modelling projects to optimize their chance to generate new evidences. Data Mining International has developed a methodology to construct a composite indicator from various qualitative and quantitative parameters. This methodology is currently used by the World Health Organization in Epidemy Risk assessment modelling.
Disease Incidence Model
For each population, the Disease Incidence Model™ produces a report showing the overall incidence of disease compared to the national norm and quantifying the cost impact of each disease on a per member per month basis and in total. Reports identify diseases that are over-represented and under-represented in the population in terms of frequency and in terms of cost. Reports also depict differences in population demographics driving these variances.
Double Helix
Double Helix Consulting (DHC) is the Market Access division of Double Helix. DHC is a team of highly experienced strategic Market Access and P & R consultants; a multidisciplinary team focused on delivering ad hoc actionable global and local market access strategies in the fields of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices. We provide unique actionable solutions by developing a highly interactive and continuous link with clients. The DHC team is composed of professionals with long experience in the pharma industry and consulting.
Drug InfoNomics
North Carolina consulting firm in drug information, medical writing, health economic research, etc.
Drug Modeling Explorer
Software visualization and communication tool to explore model-based results of your compound’s product profile. Through the DMX interface you and your development team colleagues can address key strategic development questions by comparing probabilistic outcomes for different endpoints, treatment strategies, patient populations, and competing products.
Duke University Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics
Part of Duke Clinical Research Institute evaluates costs, outcomes, and quality of life in clinical trials; studies physician and patient decision making; and conducts health services research in such areas as access to care, geographic variation, and managed care.
Duke University Center for Health Policy, Law and Management
Focusing on evidence-based health policy decisions.
Dymaxium
Dymaxium develops Tools and Solutions that promote your products’ clinical and economic value to healthcare decision makers. Since 1996, we have successfully delivered more than 400 Communication, Modeling, Training, Marketing, and Market Access tools and solutions for our global biotech and pharmaceutical customers.
E/B Rubinstein Associates
E/B Rubinstein Associates, management consultants, with focus on pharmaceutical manufacturer marketing stratagies, pharmacy benefits management, disease management and managed care
Eastern Research Group (ERG)
ERG offers a broad range of services, including financial and economic impact modeling, survey design and implementation, statistical analysis, and market and econometric modeling.
Economists Incorporated (Washington, D.C.)
Provides economic analysis and testimony specializing in antitrust, regulation, and damages estimation. Business analysis and public policy consulting.
Eight Steps to More Productive Observational (Registry) Studies by Jeff Trotter
Clever, insightful, and informative...Let Jeff Trotter, one of the preeminent consultant to the pharma/biotech industry, help you conceive, implement, and analyze better and more useful observational, Phase IV, Registry studies. As always, he does it with humor!
eMax Health Systems
Our independent pharmaceutical research and health policy group fosters innovation and guides the development of our physician and patient access services; here's what we can do: * Quantify and communicate the value of pharmaceutical brands; * Provide physicians access to specialty products for in-office administration * Provide patient financial incentives to comply with their medication; * Warehouse and manage healthcare data. The company has two distinct divisions: 1) eMAX Central-Access Rx: through a nationwide network of over 55,000 retail and specialty pharmacies we provide improved patient access to medicine through point-of-service economic assistance programs, and an innovative specialty distribution system for office-based treatments. 2) eMAX Healthcare Research: through an independent global analytics research team, we conduct comparative effectiveness research to assess the value of pharmaceutical products.
Employer-based Pharmaceutical Strategies
Create and implement on your behalf employer based brand strategies that enhance product sales by increasing brand utilization in the employer workplace through ROI incentive based behavior change intervention initiatives.
Ennioa HealthCare Information System Consulting & Analytics
Innovative consulting solutions enabling change to effect disease outcomes through business intelligence.
EPI-Q
Provides disease management, health economics and clinical research for providers, the pharmaceutical industry and medical device industry.
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.
Erasmus University of Rotterdam Institute for Medical Technology Assessment
Academic study in Health Policy and Management, and lectures at Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences. Downloadable pdf files of reports available.
European Health Economics Consulting (Acquired by I3 Innovus)
Consultants in health economics. Evaluation of medical technologies, cost-of-illness studies, courses etc.
Evidence of Value Model
Performs customized calculations of the value of new drugs, medical devices and other therapeutic interventions. The Model links cost and utilization data from large patient care databases to published clinical data specific to new drugs, classes of drugs, diagnostics, medical technologies, or a combination of drugs and technologies used to treat a specific disease.
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.
Executive Recruitment
Providing headhunting services and resources to Medcial Communications and Health Econmomics professionals.
Expert Health Data Programming, Inc.
Provides Vitalnet software for analyzing and disseminating health statistics/data sets to run on desktop or web browser. Makes tables, charts, maps, stats.
Express Scripts
More than 50 million members, rich and diverse database on drug usage and demographics, and a history of partnering with pharmaceutical companies.
ExtendMed
Manage medical web conferences. Online event management, complete customization of website to match educational initiative, evaluations, marketing/reg support, summary reports, AV production and logistics coordination
Financial Modeler
From Thomson Medstat; helps you easily and confidently forecast future expenditures, establish a budget, and track against that budget throughout the year. It also supports the annual premium and contribution rate-setting process. spacer
FirstRanked Pharmaceutical Marketing Services
Interactive marketing agency specializing in advanced online advertising solutions.
Forecast Architect
Forecast Architect® is a proprietary Excel-based forecasting tool that allows clients to spend more time on the underlying forecast drivers and assumptions and less time on model construction and mathematical calculations. It offers unsurpassed flexibility to add events to forecasts, turn events on and off, and create scenarios that enable clients to ascertain the impact of certain market events or competitive actions on a forecast and weigh the consequences of different courses of action. From KantarHealth.
Forecasting Model from Alliance
Improved forecast quality through ’deep strategy’ brought on by dynamic scenario planning, the best way to understand and control corporate risks
Fourth Hurdle Consulting Ltd (Now part of IMS)
Specialists in the UK/international application of economics to health care, including expert support in the fields of health economics strategy, pricing support, NICE/reimbursement submissions and economic evaluation.
Georgetown University Institute - Health Policy Institute
Health policy and health services research.
Global Forum for Health Research
Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research (GHEOR)
Providing quality quantitative analysis and economic evaluation to the pharmaceutical industry. Offices in US and Australia.
Global Market Access Solutions
Global Market Access Solutions ("GMA Solutions") is a specialist consulting firm providing market access solutions to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. GMA Solutions utilizes value-based pricing techniques, and our knowledge of international pricing and reimbursement trends to develop global market access strategies. GMA Solutions can also offer a variety of communication strategies to optimise commercial success.
Goffin Consultancy Ltd
Evidence-based health economic and meta-analystical consulting
HCMS Human Capital Management Services
Health information service business; has database with Payroll Data; Attendance, Absence and Disability Data; Workers Compensation Data; Health Plan Data, including Drug Safety Data, when available Individual Health & Productivity Data. Also provides consulting services to employers not large enough for database services, and includes technical assistance in health benefits design and implementation, and human capital risk management training.
HCS - Health Care Software and Healthcare Information Systems
Healthcare information systems featuring a fully integrated clinical and financial information system designed for the continuum of care.
Health Benchmarks (Part of IMS)
Consulting company providing HBI evidence-based quality and cost metrics to generate physician and hospital performance profiles through administrative claims datasets; owns longitudinal data repositories for developing customized performance benchmarking and post-marketing solutions; designing, implementing, and conducting large-scale pharmacoeconomic and health outcomes research; and 15 years of experience in the dissemination of research findings through the peer-reviewed literature,
Health Capital Consultants
Ppecializing in valuation consulting, financial analysis, litigation support, management consulting, merger and consolidation, provider & practices, library and research services, information systems / technology services for healthcare providers and their advisors.
Health Data Services Corp.
One person operation providing database acquisition services among US claims database, EMRs, hospital detail data and data from Europe
Health Decision Strategies, LLC
Provides software and online tools for disease management programs, patient and healthcare provider education programs, healthcare administrator programs and health outcomes assessment programs. Link to a number of online calculators for cost effectiveness research
Health Dialog
A leading provider of care management and analytic services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bupa, a global provider of healthcare services
Health Economica
Health Economic consulting and dedicated Excel-based software tools for the health economist
Health Economics and Health Care Management
A publicly funded research institute focusing on economic evaluation. health system research, and health care management
Health Economics Consulting Group, LLC (HECG)
HECG is a group of experienced academic health economists and health services researchers providing research and expert consulting services in three practice areas: cost & outcomes analysis; market & business analysis; and regulation & policy analysis. Within each of these practice areas, HECG has conducted rigorous research, consulting, and expert services.
Health Economics Research Institute
HERI seeks to advance the cause of improving health care delivery systems, with an emphasis on market-based public policy solutions with limited government responsibility, through research, sponsoring seminars, coalition building, and other means consistent with the mission
Health Information Research Unit (HIRU) at McMaster University
Evidence-based Health Informatics
Health Outcomes Research Europe
Now owned by IMS
Health Outcomes Solutions
Susan Mathias' new firm. Susan’s expertise includes developing and validating PRO measures including health-related quality of life, treatment satisfaction, resource utilization, and workplace productivity, and using these measures in multi-national studies, including clinical trials and real-world, observational studies. In addition, Susan has experience conducting economic evaluations, and in the statistical interpretation of health outcomes.
Health Policy Center – Urban Institute
Primarily concerned with issues related to how the dynamics of the health care market affect health care financing, costs, and access.
Health Promotion Research, Inc.
A science-based consulting firm conducting scientific research into human behaviour as it relates to population health. Design, conduct, and evaluate school-based prevention programs, workplace wellness programs, CME/CHE programs, medication compliance programs, population health evaluations, etc.
Health Research Associates, Inc.
A consulting firm specializing in patient reported outcomes research and qualitative research
Health Utilities Inc.
Health Utilities Inc (HUInc) specializes in preference based (utility) measures of health-related quality of life for use in describing treatment processes and outcomes in clinical studies; economic evaluations of health care programs; the measurement and monitoring of population health. HUInc provides support services for the Health Utilities Index (HUI®) measurement systems for paper / pencil questionnaires and electronic administration including personal computers and via the internet.
Healthcare Data Warehousing and Clinical Intelligence
Recombinant builds reliable data warehouses and reporting systems that integrate the complex clinical concepts of evidence-based medicine to transform healthcare data into meaningful, actionable views, including views for C-level executives who need metrics to support P4P performance, board-level reports and Joint Commission accreditation
Healthcare Education Services
Specialist provider of medical education programmes ideal for those working in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry
Healthcare Education Services
Specialist provider of medical education developed specifically for personnel from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Training in a comprehensive range of therapy and business areas.
Healthcare Informatics, Data Mining, Medical Economics and Analysis
ALBA Consultants specialize in medical economic and informatics analysis of life science and healthcare data. ALBA Consultants can perform the following activities and analyses: Convert raw data, from multiple disparate data sources into usable and useful information; Predictive Modeling; Statistical Analysis; Strategic Market and Product Research; Opportunity Profiling™; Analysis of Disease Management Programs; Statistical Analysis of Clinical Trials; Disease Registries; Disease-Specific Report Cards; Risk Stratification; Outcomes Research; Pharmacoeconomic Analysis; Physician Profiling
HealthCore
Health outcomes and clinical research company specializing in research in the managed care setting. As independent subsidiary of Wellpoint, Inc. (the nation's largest health benefits company), HealthCore has years of longitudinal patient data representing millions of lives. Unique data set containing laboratory results.
HealthEcon Ltd.
Switzerland-based consulting company specializing in health- and pharmacoeconomics, strategy and organisation in health care
HEB; Programme for Health Economics in Bergen
The first Norwegian research programme in health economics. T
Hercules (division of Abt Associates)
HERQuLES is a leader in collecting and analyzing data on the use of health care products and services and on their clinical, economic, quality of life, and satisfaction outcomes. Strategic Planning, Pricing & Communication Support; Patient Registries & Prospective Studies; Retrospective Analysis & Economic Modeling; Health-related Quality of Life and Patient-Reported Outcomes Evaluation
Heron Group Ltd
Heron is a leading health outcomes, pricing, and reimbursement consultancy focused on enabling the global healthcare industry to access constrained markets and realise the value of its products. Heron specialises in providing systematic reviews, economic evaluation, and pricing and reimbursement intelligence, designed to meet the varying needs of our clients.
High Performance Networks by Health Benchmarks
Increasingly, health plans and employer coalitions are developing tiered provider networks in an attempt to rein in the rising costs of health care. High-value providers are recognized and assigned to different tiers based on whether or not they meet certain standards of utilization and quality, and patients are offered price differentials such as different co-payments and benefit/premium differentials for visiting doctors in these high-performing tiers. n combination, HBI's cost of care measures and clinical quality indicators form the necessary foundation for identifying cost-effective providers or medical care to support plan’s in developing their performance tiers.
htanalysts
Sydney-based consultancy offering a range of health technology assessment services to Australasian and international clients. The company specialises in the preparation of applications to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) and to the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) for government reimbursement of pharmaceuticals, medical services, devices, procedures or diagnostic tests.
http://www.redshiftresearch.co.uk/pricing-research-techniques
Redshift offer a range of pricing research techniques and services.
i3 Innovus Research Inc.
Econometrics and outcomes research, market access and reimbursement, informatics. Principal consultants include Michael Drummand, Milt Weinstein, George Torrance, among others. Part of UnitedHealthGroup
i3 Pharma Informatics
Our unparalleled data assets, online tools, and scientific expertise help you attain a clearer understanding of your products’ potential and corresponding market dynamics. This enhanced perspective is essential to making rapid, informed decisions throughout development and commercialization. Utilizing our next-generation market intelligence, gives you unprecedented longitudinal insight into the performance of: Your Products, Competing products, Patients, Physicians, Clinical investigators.
IHE
IHE is a non profit research institute and IHEs aim it to promote favourable developments in health care in Sweden and in other countries.
iMedical Business Advisors
Medical financial planners. Provides other legal/technologic consulting, and has forums/newsgroups to join.
IMS Health
Marketing effectiveness solutions for prescription and OTC products; sales optimization solutions to increase pharmaceutical sales force productivity; and consulting and customized services that turn information into actionable insights.
IMS HEOR: Health Economics and Outcomes Research
Established platform of information, analytics, and consulting to support the demonstration of product value to healthcare authorities across the world. Access to the widest source of information including anonymized claims-based patient level data in the US, electronic medical records based patient data in Europe as well as global sales and prescription information
IMS: Pricing and Reimbursement Strategy
Formerly Cambridge Pharma Consultancy; helps client companies achieve the financial benefits of optimal market access by applying essential expertise ? in policy, in supply chain integrity,in managed markets, in economics, in international pricing and reimbursement trends ? to the most pressing issues of the day.
InForMed
German consulting firm providing HEOR support
Infosoft Research
Provides online satisfaction surveys, HR surveys and custom research; For web-based and other administration methods.
Infusion Pharma Consulting LLC
Consulting on strategic pricing and public policy, corporate and product strategy and external corporate growth acceleration.
Infusion Pharma Consulting, LLC
Strategy consultants specializing in products for High Acuity Medicine. Infusion's Strategic Pricing and Reimbursement practice supports the pharmaceutical and biotech industries in engineering, evidencing and capturing the value of key product assets.
Innovative Health Solutions
Global consulting firm providing strategy, market analysis, technology assessment, pricing, and health economics services to pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients
Institute for Innovation & Valuation in Health Care
Not-for-profit scientific organization dedicated to research into the theoretical foundations and the practical application of economic evaluation of health care programs, including regulatory and budget imoact analyses and health care utilization research
Institute of Empirical Health Economics
German site. Provides modeling, econometrics, benchmarking, market analysis services to health care authorities, to international pharmaceutical companies, to sickness funds and health care insurers and to clinical research programmes.
Integrated Benefits Institute
News and resources related to health & productivity research and employer research.
Integrated Research Network from HealthCore
Multidimensional platform which is structured to combine aspects of traditional retrospective and prospective study designs with data obtained from physicians' offices, diagnostic laboratories and additional administrative data sets in the pursuit of "real world solutions" to clinical research and health outcomes research studies. Clinical studies span the full range of methodology from simple surveys, to registries, to complex phase 2-4 pharmacologic studies.
Iranian Health Economics Website
J Trotter Research and Consulting
With a focus on post-approval observational research, Jeff Trotter's consultancy provides unique strategic, scientific and operational insights to maximize the value of these increasingly important research programs.
Jestarx Group
One-stop medical marketing solution provider for their clients within the pharmaceutical industry. The JestaRx Group provides solutions all the way from strategic planning, through advisory boards, market research, retrospective and prospective data analysis, and on to presentations, manuscripts, and posters.
Johan Dippenaar & associates
Managed Healthcare Consultants in South Africa
John R. Lloyd & Associates
Providing reimbursement, outcomes, and marketing support to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry.
KantarHealth
Formed by uniting Consumer Health Sciences, MattsonJack, TNS Healthcare, and Ziment, KantarHealth is the world’s largest healthcare-focused consulting and primary research company. Powered by an unmatched breadth of competencies and depth of insight, it is the leading next-generation decision-support partner, delivering evidence-based business guidance to support your global and local success. With 40+ offices throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, KantarHealth provides the broadest global footprint, coupled with the strongest local knowledge to help drive clients’ maximum performance in every geography.
Kendle Registries and Health Outcomes
The Kendle Registries and Health Outcomes team specializes in systematic review, epidemiology research, and health economic services to help you efficiently achieve and maintain market access at any stage of your product's life cycle. We provide desk-top research to review regulatory requirements, assess the payer-environment, and support subsequent clinical study planning and value-based pricing projects. We conduct stand-alone observational studies and health outcomes projects piggy-backed onto clinical trials, to gather data relevant to your marketing strategy. We prepare reimbursement submissions (including health technology assessment reports) for various markets from our Munich and Wilmington offices, with input, as needed, from Kendle cross-functional staff situated in 31 countries.
King & Spaulding Legal Services
Law firm with specialty in medical devices.
Lanstat Inc.
Outcomes and Satisfaction Measurement
LMS Medical Systems Limited
Tools for Obstetrical Decision Support, Risk Management and Clinical Information Systems. LMS is a leader in the application of advanced mathematical modeling and neural networks for medical use.
London Economics
Health economics consulting, European offices in London, Dublin, Paris, and Brussels.
Luminous Solutions LLC
Develops Custom Information Management Software Solutions.
Managed Care Information Center
The Managed Care Information Center: Providing Essential Management Information to Healthcare Executives
Mapi Research Institute
Collaborative research in the field of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) since 1994. Links to questionnaires and linguestics translations
Mapi Values
Consulting in patient reported outcomes (HRQOL, productivity, satsfaction, health state preference), health economics, market access, reimbursement
Marlabs Inc.
Informatics company based in Edison, NJ. Solutions for R & D of Pharma companies.
Mathematica Policy Research Home Page
Consulting firm devoted policy research and analysis. Large scale surveys/data collection, decision analytic tools, etc.
McDermott Will & Emery Life Sciences Medical Devices Reimbursement and Legislative Consulting
Our Life Sciences & Medical Devices Practice Group provides fully integrated, multidisciplinary legal services to the life sciences industry. Our group of 75+ lawyers, patent agents and scientific advisors provides the full range of legal services required by life sciences companies, regardless of their stage of development. We understand the specific needs of companies in this industry and can significantly support in-house counsel through various stages of their products and services life cycle. Our Life Sciences & Medical Devices Practice Group members regularly provide service in the areas of intellectual property; corporate and corporate finance; products regulation and reimbursement; legislative and government regulations, including OSHA, environmental and food and agriculture; health regulatory; mass tort; and product liability; securities; executive compensation; and labor/employment; tax and international trade.
McMaster University Centre for Evaluation of Medicines
Dedicated to improving drug use through research and education. Areas of focus include pharmacoeconomics, drug epidemiology, and drug policy
MDCI Medical Device Consultants Inc.
Since 1980, Medical Device Consultants, Inc. (MDCI) has provided regulatory, clinical, and quality assurance consulting services to help medical device and diagnostic product manufacturers meet those requirements.
Med Market Pros
Medical marketing consultants; fills staffing needs if you are short-handed.
MedAssurant, Inc.
As a leading medical informatics solutions provider, MedAssurant is transforming the healthcare industry. Through our unique multidisciplinary approach, nationwide personnel, and advanced technology infrastructure, MedAssurant is able to achieve a superior healthcare dataset consisting of highly targeted, timely, and pertinent components of information. Armed with this information, MedAssurant is able to deliver unparalleled value in the assessment and improvement of clinical and quality outcomes, care management, utilization, and financial performance.
Medaxial - Specialist Value Communications
Specializes in reaching stakeholders who influence value-related decisions about product usage but who are not formally trained in health economics (pharmacy managers, hospital managers, pharmaceutical advisers, formulary committee members and senior clinicians). Services include developing user-friendly models intended for use by key account managers and senior sales representatives in meetings with budget-holders, decision-makers and influencers. Also provide evidence shaping, value story development, value dossiers, value toolkits, commercially-oriented health economic training and a wide range of other services. Medaxial is based in Central London, with a subsidiary office in New York serving the North American marketplace.
Medicaid Managed Care Information Services
When states move Medicaid beneficiaries into managed care, they need timely, high-quality data to manage, monitor, and evaluate managed care programs. Thomson Medstat Medicaid Managed Care Information Services (MMCIS) help Medicaid managers make the transition to managed care and put in place a strategy to monitor, evaluate, and improve the performance and outcomes of their state's managed care initiative.
Medical & Pharmaceutical Information
MPI offers regulatory affairs services in the European Community: Strategy review - New applications - Post approval procedures - pricing and reimbursement - Dossier updates - Line extensions - Variations - Licence renewals
Medical Executive Post
We are a thriving online and onground community that connects medical professionals with financial advisors and management consultants. We participate in a variety of programs, conferences, workshops and graduate courses, in addition to our journal, textbooks, CD-ROMs, PowerPoint presentations and client education materials. Through our unbiased thought-leadership, and this sharing forum, we have become one of the most popular and influential professional networks in the health administration, economics and financial planning space for doctors. Our goal in the modern Health 2.0 era is to “bridge the gap between medical mission and profit margin.” www.MedicalExecutivePost.com
Medical Management (MedMan)
Consulting company who manages medical groups.
Medical Management Associates, Inc.
Provides strategic planning, complete practice management, reimbursement and coding, practice re-engineering, physician compensation and contracting, managed care consulting, and medical space planning services.
Medical Marketing Economics
Consulting group on value-added brand solutions for pharmaceuticals and other health care interventions. Unique ValueFrame methodology to determine perceptions and decide which of them matter in any given situation to establish value to clinicians, payers, etc. Keen understanding of reimbursement economics.
Medical Outcomes Trust
Dedicated to improving health and health care by distributing standardized, high quality instruments that measure health and the outcomes of medical care.
Mediconomics
Dutch consultants for Pharmacoeconomics, Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs
MediQual
Clinical information business of Cardinal Health. Using laboratory results data coupled with data from billing systems, both of which are available electronically in most hospitals, achieves much greater accuracy in assessing quality and outcomes. It also provides information about the risk adjusted outcomes in a form that is readily comparable across hospitals.
Medmetrics Inc.
Canadian health economics consulting practice with extensive global experience in all aspects of health economics and outcomes research.
MedNet Solutions
Past IV and post market registry studies.
Medsite.com
Services include online detailing, medical education, and market research.
MedStat Group (Now part of Thomson Reuters)
The MEDSTAT Group's mission is to be the leader in providing information products and related services for managing the cost and quality of healthcare.
Medstat Outcomes Research
Medstat outcomes research brings together top-notch analytic expertise, innovative research approaches, and the highest quality, retrospective and prospective data and data collection assets from across Thomson to define critical market opportunities for pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers.
MEDTAP Institute at UBC
MEDTAP International®, Inc. is a global research organization specializing in outcomes studies, economic evaluation and modeling, and policy research and analysis. MEDTAP excels at planning, building and communicating the value message of your product through a variety of applied channels to: Reimbursement Authorities, Health Care Providers, Regulatory Agencies, Patients and Others.
Mental Health Outcomes Inc.
A CRO focusing solely on outcomes and clinical research within the Central Nervous System (CNS) therapeutic area.
Michael Allen Company
Serves global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with analytic, market-focused approach in new product commercialization (including segmentation/positioning/targeting), promotion response measurement and sales force optimization, demand forecasting, and portfolio planning.
Midas Consulting
Midas Consulting has the largest knowledge base of the Argentinean HMO market, having experience analyzing other Latin American markets, such as Chile and Brazil. The company can assess and propose strategies, market entries and performance increases.
Monash University Center for Health Program Evaluation
Australian academic centre of excellence in health economics research, teaching and community service. The overriding goal of the Centre is to undertake and promote high quality health economics research and teaching activities, with both a national and international focus.
M-TAG (Now part of IMS)
Health technology assessment group providing services in health economics, health outcomes and late phase clinical research.
National Economic Research Associates
National Economic Research Associates (NERA)provides consulting services in health reform, pharmaceutical regulation and pharmaco-economic evaluation.
National Managed Care Roundtable
Provides innovative, informational interchange programs to address the business and clinical issues of medical directors and pharmacy directors from health plans, pharmacy benefit management companies and physician groups. Typical sponsors include pharmaceutical companies, medical device, disease management and other companies offering products and services of interest to our advisors.
NEOS Health
Novel Economic and Outcomes Research Strategies. Switzerland-based consultants in planning, conducting, communicating and utilising health economic and Quality of Life studies in a cost-effective and result-orientated way at both national and international levels. Conduct studies in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Produce and disseminate reviews concerning the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions. The aim is to identify and review the results of good quality health research and to disseminate actively the findings to key decision makers in the NHS and to consumers of health care services.
OccuLogix™ Corporation
A disease management company developing and providing treatments for ophthalmologic diseases including Age-related Macular Degeneration ("AMD"), Diabetic Retinopathy and other chronic eye conditions.
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.
Oncology Market Access Europe
Oncology Market Access Europe, Third Edition provides ongoing, timely information to market access, pricing and reimbursement, and marketing and sales professionals so they can successfully operate in the increasingly scrutinized and regulated oncology marketplace in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Country-specific modules provide a country overview and description of the healthcare system followed by detailed research and analysis of the oncology sales environment. From KantarHealth.
OncoNeth Partners
New European consulting group. "At OncoNeth Partners, we specialize in creating an optimal platform for fast and sustainable European market access for (biotech) oncology products. We work in partnership with our clients on the pre-marketing and branding of their products in the Netherlands, including pricing, reimbursement and mandatory post-approval observational research. As an innovative European country, the Netherlands has an extensive scientific and business impact on other European countries in oncology. With an acceptable reimbursement route relative to other EU-countries and well-organized, accessible professional groups, the Netherlands can comprise a good European gateway for your (biotech) oncology product."
Outcome Sciences, LLC
Outcome Sciences is a healthcare consulting and data management company that aims to use the internet to collect clinical data, streamline patient registries, and quantify economic impact of a drug. The advanced technology of the Outcome system can help reduce JCAHO data collection costs by as much as 40% -50% compared to competitor systems.
Outcomes International
Outcomes International supports clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnical, and medical device industries in the launch and commercilization of their products through custom-designed, innovative and scientifically-based medical marketing services
Oxford Outcomes
International consultancy which specialises in patient- reported outcomes, health economics, epidemiology and health programme evaluation. The company has offices in Oxford and Vancouver, as well as a new office opened in Washington D.C. in June 2006.
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.
Pam Pohly Associates
National consulting firm providing strategic planning, market analysis, service line development, acquisition, start-up, turnaround, interim management and executive search to hospitals.
Partnership for Health Analytic Research
PHAR, LLC provides consulting and research services to development, marketing, and health economics professionals in the life science industry.
PATH-Program for Assessment of Technology in Health
Research program in economic evaluation and health technology assessment (HTA) that primarily supports government reimbursement decisions in the province of Ontario. PATH constitutes a new research program in economic evaluation and HTA associated with the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines (CEM) at St Joseph's Hospital and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CE&B) and Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) in the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University.
Patient Insights
Market segmentation tool designed to help direct-to-customer brand teams profile and attract new customers. It identifies media and lifestyle preferences for patients with clinical profiles matching your product.
Patti Peeples Health Economics and Medical Writing Consulting
Dr. Peeples provides creative, strategic, cost-effective, and on-time solutions for communicating the value of health care products to key customer groups. Services are based on the provision of “big-picture” strategy coupled with rigorous and thorough tactical support. Dr. Peeples also owns and manages HealthEconomics.Com. Contact me at patti@healtheconomics.com for medical writing, strategic planning, speaking, questionnaire development, serving on academic or education committees (PhD, MS, other) and other tactical programs.
Performance Measurement
Medstat designs reliable, evidence-based measures of costs, access, and quality of care to analyze provider and health plan performance. We assist in developing related data collection processes and systems that ensure data validity and comparability. We integrate, validate, and analyze the resulting data, we build market-wide norms, and we evaluate performance against those norms. We also lead and coordinate regional coalitions of employers, providers, and plans, contributing to the success of their performance-incentive and quality improvement programs.
Performance Scoring by Health Benchmarks
To ensprovide the most useful information in a succinct, meaningful manner, HBI will assist by either developing and mass-producing provider scorecards, or guiding the proper development of scorecards within our clients'own corporation.
Pharmaceutical Services Inc.
Belgium company who will submit EU registrations
Pharmacotherapy Outcomes Center at The University of Utah
Mission is to facilitate the interaction of academia and patient care systems in the conduct of outcomes research, the presentation and publication of results, training of healthcare professionals and facilitating the utilization of outcomes research information to improve patient care. Contract with the pharmaceutical industry, foundations, managed care organizations and government.
Pharmametrics
Epidemiological and health economics research for the international pharmaceutical industry. Based in Germany.
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.
Pharmarchitecture Limited
Health Outcomes and Health Technology Assessment consultancy offering multidisciplinary insights and creative solutions based on best available evidence. Full spectrum service from evidence sythesis and data analysis to health economc modelling and health policy issues.
Pharmatech
Research management org linking CRO and SMO services.
PharmaWiser
An interactive and dynamic simulator for optimizing transnational pricing strategy.
pharmawork - smarter working
pharmawork is a global provider of medical-marketing educational services & resources located in UK
PharmDUR
Pharmaceutical auditing company, specializing in Physician Academic Detailing, Patient Drug Utilization Reviews, and Pharmacy Verification Audits.
PharmEcon
PharmEcon is the only Norwegian consultancy with dedicated focus on health economics, in particular pharmacoeconomics and associated fields. We provide outsourcing and other services for the public and private sector, and we are responsible for the training within our areas of focus at university level.
PHARMERIT
Delivers state-of-the-art European pharmacoeconomic evaluations to international pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. Services offered include environmental scans, modelling studies, costing studies, care mapping and reimbursement support.
Pharmetrics
Part of IMS, it is a healthcare information company, delivering web based, disease-specific products derived from episode-based longitudinal clinical and financial data. Identify the variability in physician and patient behaviors that shows a brand's strengths and weaknesses in a way that reveals how the market is positioning your drug. provide subscription reports and analytic services that fill the gap in knowledge about how patients are treated and what happens to them.
PHARMO Institute for Drug Outcomes Research
Independent scientific research organisation dedicated to the study of drug use and outcomes. The PHARMO Institute has direct access to large and high quality pharmacoepidemiological databases linking drug, patient level and pharmacy data and is staffed with academic trained specialists in epidemiology, pharmacotherapy, medicine and informatics.
Pharsight Corporation
Pharsight facilitates strategic decision making in drug development. Pharsight software improves the value and availability of preclinical and clinical program data for PK/PD modeling, analysis, drug attribute visualization, reporting and trial simulation. Strategic consulting based on quantitative, predictive models builds the foundation of knowledge to strengthen the quality, visibility, and value of critical drug development decisions.
Policy Analysis Inc. (PAI)
Policy Analysis Inc. (PAI) is probably one of the most respected consulting companies in the business. Long, venerable history, and great track record with publications and credibility. PAI is a contract-research and consulting firm specializing in outcomes research, pharmacoeconomic and quality of life studies, registries, and phamacoepidemiology, either as part of clinical trials or stand-alone. Based in Massachusetts.
PPD
PPD is a leading global contract research organization providing discovery, development and post-approval services as well as compound partnering programs. Our clients and partners include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government organizations. PPD applies innovative technologies, therapeutic expertise and a commitment to quality to help its clients and partners maximize returns on their R&D investments and accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics to patients.
Pretium
Pretium is a fully Australian-owned pharmaceutical consulting firm that offers a comprehensive portfolio of integrated services across 4 business lines - market intelligence, health economics, late phase research and disease management. Pretium supports distinct needs for effective health care interventions and pharmaceuticals including the custom design and execution of programs incorporating a range of research methodologies and initiatives focusing on the peri- and post-PBAC phases for pharmaceuticals.
PriceSpective - Value Strategy Consultants
PriceSpective are value strategy consultants who undertake Pricing & Reimbursement and market access projects. We help companies direct their development towards areas of unmet need from a payer perspective. We set launch prices and maintenance of optimal access throughout the product life cycle. Through this PriceSpective helps healthcare systems, payers, patients and society and in doing so we ultimately help our clients achieve success.
PRIME Institute
Part of University of Minnesota. Mission is the study of the economic and policy issues to help improve popular access to pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical services. The Institute is directed by Stephen W. Schondelmeyer, Pharm.D., Ph.D.,
Princeton Reimbursement Group
Supports the medical products industry with comprehensive services in the area of third-party payer reimbursement. PRG provides strategic assessment and specialized programs, from concept stage through post-launch, designed to increase the potential for positive reimbursement decisions by private and government insurers.
PRMA Consulting
PRMA Consulting is managed by David Sykes, a health economist with over 13 years experience in the price, reimbursement and market access area. Our team of Consultants is drawn from various blue-chip companies in the Pharmaceutical and Medtech sectors having worked in Global, European and UK roles with responsibilities for strategic pricing, reimbursement, market access and health outcomes. PRMA Consulting has a network of key opinion leaders on the clinical and payer side and country specific experts across the US, Europe and Japan to draw upon in engagements. Our team has a wide publication record in the areas of health outcomes, PROs, real-world effectiveness studies, epidemiology and pharmaceutical policy. David is a Gerson Lehrman Group Council Partner.
PRMA Insights
PRMA Insights is a unique series of reports that address the critical global pricing, reimbursement and market access challenges and opportunities by disease area. Each comprehensive report critically reviews all the major health technology assessment (HTA) and pricing and reimbursement decisions by disease area in the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan, and unravels the complexity around pricing and reimbursement. It delivers actionable insights to apply to your clinical development program in order to develop a robust evidence-based payer-value proposition. Written by a team of industry-experienced individuals, each report provides comprehensive secondary research, experience-based insight, and validation by payers and key opinion leaders (KOLs) across markets. PRMA Insights helps to minimise the market access risk and to maximize the market opportunity for commercial success.
PRMA Virtual
PRMA Virtual is a flexible subscription-based service providing best in class strategic, commercial and technical based pricing, reimbursement and market access advisory services at your fingertips. PRMA Virtual will grant you access to our team of experts to suit your real-time business needs. Brought to you by prmaconsulting, this innovative subscription service offers instant access to our experienced team of Consultants to provide answers to your pricing, reimbursement and market access questions. PRMA Virtual is on-hand to provide you with answers to questions arising from specific issues raised in prmainsights. Purchase a subscription to PRMA Virtual and our team of Consultants will be on-hand to solve all your pricing, reimbursement and market access needs.
PRO Consulting
PRO Consulting has over 80 years of experience collecting patient-reported outcomes data of the highest integrity and have helped over 50 biotech and pharmaceutical companies capture critical PRO data to support claims in approved product labeling. PRO Consulting provides a variety of services to help sponsors optimize PRO data collection in clinical trials and adhere to the draft guidance, including: PRO Audit; PRO Migration and Validation; PRO File; and PRO Meetings
PROMIS
Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) initiative stablishes a collaborative relationship between NIH and individual research teams through a cooperative agreement (U01) mechanism. The broad objectives of the PROMIS network are to: * Develop and test a large bank of items measuring patient-reported outcomes * Create a computerized adaptive testing system that allows for efficient, psychometrically robust assessment of patient-reported outcomes in clinical research involving a wide range of chronic diseases * Create a publicly available system that can be added to and modified periodically and that allows clinical researchers to access a common repository of items and computerized adaptive tests. The network will collaborate on the collection of self-reported data from diverse populations of individuals with a variety of chronic diseases, using agreed-upon methods, modes, and questionnaires.
Pro-Pharma
Strategy and strategic Implementation; Benefit Auditing and Oversight/Management; Performance Reviews/Analysis; Negotiations with Plans, PBMs and Providers; Development and Implementation of Disease state ManagementPrograms.
QualityMetric
John Ware's group. Provider of health status and outcomes measurement products and services that use proprietary and analytical methodologies to capture, benchmark, and interpret actionable patient-reported health information.
Quintiles Transnational Corp.
Contract research organization with groups focused on cliniclal trials, medical marketing, health economics, and communications.
Quorum Consulting
Specializing in market intelligence, outcomes data, and reimbursement solutions.
RAND
Policy think-tank, and offers graduate programs. Developers of RAND SF-36, the general quality of life assessment tool.
Redshift Research - Pricing Research
UK-based company specializing in marketing research for pricing.
Registrat
Conducts late phase clinical trials, Phase IIB and IV.
Regulatory & Clinical Research Institute, Inc.
CRO with reimbursement & health economics consulting as part of clinical trial development.
Reimbursement Intelligence
RI provides unbiased, independent advisement based upon our in-depth analysis. RI senior staff are highly experienced in most product markets and can provide immediate valuable insights to the due diligence process
ReimbursementIQ...Actionable Reimbursement Strategies
Focused on US-based market access, ReimbursementIQ has one of the longest national track records (20+ years) in providing strategic and tactical consulting for optimizing market access via reimbursement. REIMBURSEMENTIQ supports your product from early phase-research and assessment to late-phase pre-market programs (advisory boards, coding, etc.) on through to on-market access programs such as Helplines, Patient Assistance Programs and more. REIMBURSEMENTIQ takes a highly customized approach to every client, every product, every project and program. REIMBURSEMENTIQ engages a talented team of subject matter experts, seasoned consulting professionals and reimbursement specialists. REIMBURSEMENTIQ experts help you understand value drivers, pricing sensitivities, legislative/policy impact, and a myriad of other factors that influence market access to your product—whether you intend to commercialize, out-license or divest your asset. On the tactical side, our premium team of reimbursement specialists works directly with providers, payers and patients to maximize access to appropriate therapies.
ROA
Australian health services research company (Sydney-based, active in S.E.Asia) specialising in developing Quality of Life and health status measures.
Rockefeller Foundation
RTI Health Solutions
Pharmacoeconomics, Pharmacoepidemiology, Risk Management, Patient-Reported Outcomes, Biostatistics, Safety & Pharmacovigilance, Registries, and Clinical Operations.
RTI International
Not-for-profit consulting company working in health economics and outcomes assessment as well as many other areas in pharmaceutical development
Rx Communications
Rx Communications is a global medical communications agency specializing in health economics and outcomes research offering services such as value dossiers, strategic communication plans, process auditing, literature reviews and analysis, & health economics communications literature.
S. R. Ware Associates
Specializes in Medicaid, Medicare, HIV and Oncology issues related to pharmaceutical, biotech and laboratory regulatory policies.
Schneider Institutes for Health Policy (SIHP)
Currently, we are directing our own Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) training program, and many SIHP research projects seek to better understand how the different levels of health care organizations interact and shape one another and impact on cost and quality outcomes. As a result of the various research projects, SIHP's research staff and areas of competency have grown, resulting in a significant capacity to address health financing, organization, and outcomes for all populations, particularly those at greatest risk.
Scientific Therapeutics Information, Inc.
Full-service medical publishing group specializing in the development of scientific literature and other resource media
Seattle Quality of Life Group
Consulting group dedicated to the deveopment and validation of instruments
SERMO: Online Physician Community
Physicians around the nation exchange the latest medical insights with each other and improve patient outcomes - 24/7. Used for epidemiology, patient outcomes, surveys, etc.
Sissi Pham Consulting
One person owned consulting company providing strategic insight, analysis and input throughout the poduct life cycles including outcomes research
Six Sigma Online Tutorial
Sixsigmaqi2 provides online information and training on Six Sigma Certification, and customize courses at no additional cost.
SMA Services and Products
Description of consulting services focused on development and operation of client tailored clinical and business intelligence programs.
SMI Group
Key provider of management report publications, subscription products and conference documentation, SMi will help you to keep up-to-date on the latest developments within your industry sector.
Solucient (Now part of Thomson Reuters)
Information products company serving the healthcare industry. Solucient provides comparative measurements of cost, quality, and market performance. Maintains the nation's largest healthcare database, comprised of more than 26 million discharges per year from 2,900 hospitals - representing 77.5 percent of all discharges.
Statistical Informatics Consulting
The Medstat statistical informatics group optimizes the delivery of statistical information to federal and state government decisionmakers and analysts as well as other customers. We draw on our statistical expertise in a range of activities, including conducting statistical analyses, managing data development, determining sample size and power requirements, recommending methods and approaches for solving particular problems, presenting statistical results to both technical and non-technical audiences, and consulting on and implementing statistical computing using a variety of languages such as SAS and Stata.
StatWorks
Providing statistical consulting for health research (epidemiology, economics, survey methodology, etc.).
Strategic Econometrics, LLC
Computational models, econometrics, finance, and game theory.
Strategic Health Resources
Consulting and data-mining firm developing focused analytical tools for the health care industry. The firm has created a number of important tools (Evidence of Value Model, Disease Incidence Model).
Strategic Value Analysis Healthcare
Value Analysis Software, training and cost management solutions, Productivity Management Software, Benchmarking and implementation Services
Supportive Care Perspectives
Supportive Care Perspectives™ is an in-depth review of 15 supportive-care conditions in the U.S. cancer marketplace, providing key and invaluable information about this large and growing market segment to help you plan your business. Treatment and market research is available for the U.S. market; epidemiology is available for the U.S., EU, and Japan. From KantarHealth.
Surveillance Data, Inc.
SDI is the leading provider of real-time localized illness tracking and modeling data to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Conducts patient-level data analyses, patient education, treatment and wellness programs that drive therapeutic compliance and persistence. market research and marketing programs in the area of disease surveillance to pharmaceutical, consumer products companies and retailers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, UK, Europe, and Australia. We have 17 years of experience in respiratory illness tracking and 11 years of experience in influenza-specific tracking.
Tag & Associates
Established in 1998, Tag & Associates provides pricing and reimbursement planning and problem solving for emerging and established life science companies, the service industries supporting them and health technology investors.
Technomics Research, LLC
Consulting in cost-effectiveness for healthcare products and services
The Lewin Group
The Lewin Group is a healthcare policy research and management consulting firm with a staff of 250 with headquarters in Washington, DC and additional offices in six countries: Belgium, Canada, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the USA.
The MattsonJack Group, Inc.
See listing for KantarHealth
Thomas Jefferson University Health Policy
Research in clinical outcomes, health economics, pharmacoeconomics and technology assessment, customized training programs, health policy promotion and dissemination.
Thomson Interphase
Academically rigorous medical education consulting.
ThomsonReuters HealthCare Division
Offers programs in Clinical Decision Support, Employer HC cost drivers, EBM, government cost control programs
TopPharm Consulting
Regulatory affairs services in Poland. We are former Polish Authority experts who assessed dossier in national procedure, MRP, DCP, central procedure (EMEA) and were involved in preparation of Polish pharmaceutical regulations.
TopPharm Consulting
Regulatory affairs services in Poland. We are former Polish Authority experts who assessed dossier in national procedure, MRP, DCP, central procedure (EMEA) and were involved in preparation of Polish pharmaceutical regulations.
Total Healthcare Group
Leading consultancy in market access, payer solutions, etc. Has 800 person Advisory Board. Based in UK.
Total Therapeutic Management, Inc.
Outcomes research based quality improvement programs. Based on outcome evaluations, we specialize in the improvement of quality through subsequent physican and patient education.
TreeAge Software, Inc.
TreeAge Software, Inc. publishes, sells, and supports decision analysis software.
Triage HealthCom
Value Based Strategic Marketing Consultancy
TrialStat! Beyond Conventional Thinking
TrialStat’s patent-pending electronic systematic review (ESR) methodology delivers transparent, reproducible and auditable reviews fast and with improved accuracy and quality.
TTM, Inc.
At TTM, we combine state of the art data collection from medical charts, high-science based data analysis, and results oriented clinical reporting that leads to improvement in health care. TTM also provides customized, unique educational tool solutions that take full advantage of the enhanced healthcare information.
Twisted Ladder Media, Inc.
Educational content and media creators
United BioSource Corp Reimbursement and Pricing Consulting
UBC provides research and market-driven solutions in strategic reimbursement planning for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics industries. We offer a broad range of services throughout the product lifecycle, studying each new assignment from both a global reimbursement and economic perspective. We help clients face unique challenges in today’s competitive marketplace and we achieve access for new and innovative products. Experts from the UBC Center for Pricing & Reimbursement provide in-depth knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care payers. We help clients identify the long-term strategic reimbursement objectives, economic issues, and tactical programs necessary to support product marketing goals, including complete reimbursement research and launch-to-payer programs. In addition, UBC conducts special studies, including federal and state cost estimates.
United BioSource Health Economics and Outcomes Research
Formerly Medtap, now part of United BioSource Corporation (UBC). Click on either the "Outcomes Research" or the "Health Economics and Policy" links. UBC evaluates the impact of disease and medical care on health-related quality of life and other patient reported outcomes. Scientists from UBC's Center for Health Outcomes Research cover the disciplines of psychology, public health, epidemiology, and psychometrics. Experienced in reimbursement planning.
United Health Group (Ingenix)
UnitedHealth Group has many different arms: Ingenix provides knowledge and information services to physicians and health care professionals, health insurers, employers and other health care buyers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, medical device manufacturers and government entities. Another division designs health care benefit plans and services that provide access to quality physicians and other health care professionals. Uniprise is the leading provider of benefit delivery and service solutions for large employers and intermediaries.
University of Aberdeen Health Economics Research Unit
Funded by the Scottish Executive Health Department
University of Hannover - Germany Dep. for Health Economics
The Institute for health economics and health system research is one of the largest institutions fpr this topic in Germany. The Institute is specialized in health system research, CEA - analyses and health technology assessment.
University of Minnesota Peters Institute of Pharmaceutical Care
Mission is to develop educational programs to disseminate pharmaceutical care practice to students and practitioners, and to conduct research to evaluate the impact of this practice on patients and society.
University of Mississippi Center for Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management
Promotes efficiency and effectiveness in the marketing and management of products and services in all segments of the pharmaceutical industry.
University of Toronto Quality of Life Research Unit
Develops conceptual models and instruments.
University of Wales Centre for the Economics of Health/Canolfan Economeg Iechyd
Conducts research and provide policy support to the National Assembly for Wales from a standpoint which recognises the wider economics of population health.
University of York Centre for Health Economics
Providing research of worldwide repute, its principal areas of activity include Economic evaluation of health technologies; Outcome measurement; Resource allocation;Health policy. There is also Health Economics Discussion Board.
Urban Institute Health Policy Center
Undertakes economic and social policy research. Health Policy Center located at http://www.urban.org/health_policy/ Many reports on health reform
ValueMedics Research, LLC
Experienced consultants in health economics, pharmacoeconomics, clinical and outcomes research, research design, pricing, reimbursement, market access, statistics, informatics, and medical communications.
VantageView and Institute for Quality Resource Management
Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategies, Advertising Campaigns and Implementation Planning to help your company achieve your targeted goals. CEA, clinical trial design, reimbursement planning, etc. Has software to help with your coding problems, APC Impact Analysis, Physician CPT Coding, Medicare Patient Population Fee Analysis
ViPS: Innovating the Business of Healthcare for Healthcare Payers
Realize improved health outcomes and clinical cost containment with ViPS’ advanced predictive risk modeling, decision support and medical management solutions.
Vision Healthcare Consultancy
Vision provide Health Economic evaluations, models and justifications for Pharmaceuticals in all stages of development. Experts in the Regulatory processes of the USA and Europe
VoxMedica
Healthcare communication and strategy company
Webster Consulting Group, Inc.
Provides pricing consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical industries.
WellPoint Institute of Health Care Knowledge Releases Report on Health Care Costs
WellPoint Institute of Health Care Knowledge releases report detailing the primary drivers of increased health care services and health insurance premiums, dispelling the notion that insurer profits are fueling spiking costs.
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Wolters Kluwer Health | Adis
WorkCare Inc.
As an integrated health provider, WorkCare is at the forefront of helping employers meet the challeges of managing today's workforce. WorkCare physicians, along with a team of allied credentialed health professionals, provide strategic and tactical consulting services and programs to Improve workforce productivity; Enhance employee health; Maintain regulatory compliance; Mitigate health-cost drivers; Advocate positive health behaviors
World Bank, Health, Nutrition & Population Department
Xcenda
Xcenda is a leading health economics and outcomes research consultancy that includes an integrated, full-service managed markets agency. Our team is composed of health economists, data analysts, clinicians, and scientists along with experienced marketers, reimbursement strategists, and market research experts. We help pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies quantify, validate, and communicate the clinical and economic value of their products. Our areas of specialization include retrospective database studies, budget impact and cost-effectiveness models, prospective studies, and outcomes analyzers. Xcenda partners with manufacturers to maximize patient access and optimize commercial success across all phases of the product life cycle. Because we are an AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group company, our clients benefit from significantly greater access to the comprehensive resources needed to successfully launch, market, support, and distribute pharmaceuticals within the specialty and oncology markets.
York Health Economics Consortium
York Health Economic Consortium's purpose is to provide consultancy and research in health economics to the NHS and to the pharmaceutical and health care industries, which combines rigorous research standards with efficienct project delivery.
Zowall Consulting Health Economics & Outcomes Research
Independent consulting firm with international experience, specializing in the economic evaluation of health care interventions cost-effectiveness, cost –utility studies, pharmacoeconomics, health outcomes research, computer-based, interactive simulation modeling Markov models, statistical analyses, and web-based database management systems development.
ZRX Outcomes Research Inc.
Global provider of interactive multimedia models that are used in Phase III & IV. They provide custom pricing & reimbursement, sales and marketing software solutions.
Zynx Health
Provide evidence-based products and services that empower our clients to measurably improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care. Scott Weingarten's group.




 

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