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Health Care Reform — Where Do We Go from Here?

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

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

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

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

Doctors Face 21% Cut In Medicare Payments.

AMCP Issues Summary of White House Health Care Reform Summit

Maximus To Continue Reviewing Medicare Part D Plan Coverage Determinations

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

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

The AMCP Format for Formulary Submissions, Version 3.0

Statistical Data Resources from AMCP for benchmarking in managed care

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

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

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

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

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

Oncology Innovative Pricing deal with NICE on lung cancer drug

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

FDA News: NICE Outlines Appeals Process for Drug Determinations

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

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

Healthcare Technology News: Privacy Survey - In Providers We Trust

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

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

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

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

The Hospitalist: Evidence-Based Medicine Curveball

Health Care Reform and the Need for Comparative-Effectiveness Research

January 2010 Newsletter and Eisenberg Conference Series 2009 Are Now Available

Disease Management Care Blog: 10 Predictions for the Next Decade

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

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

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



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AMA Physician Select
From AMA, this is an on-line "doctor finder" providing information on virtually every licensed physician in the US.
AnswerMed.com
AnswerMed.com provides straightforward medical information on common medical conditions and surgical procedures. Individuals can look up a medical condition to gain a general understanding of the condition, how it is diagnosed and treated, possible complications, predicted outcomes for recovery, appropriate specialists for treatment, and, when relevant, clear illustrations depicting common injuries and disease processes.
Audio-Digest Foundation
Publishes clinical lectures. Good search feature.
Blog: Akshay G. Kapur Discussing healthcare, business intelligence, books, and ideas
Discussion of P4P, QALY, health economics, and other information.
Blog: Piper Report
Popular health care blog. Medicare, Medicaid, pharma, reform, and more. Insights and resources on hot issues. Kip Piper, editor.
Blue Cross Plans Join In Initiative To Increase Transparency
Six Blue Cross plans around the country have joined to collaborate on providing online access to a health care cost information tool called "Care Comparison". Organizers of the effort say the easy-to-access, online tool, will serve more than 48 million consumers who will have access to cost information. (Source: Managed Care Information Center, Nov. 17, 2009)
Book: Economic Analysis in Health Care
By Stephen Morris, Nancy Devlin and David Parkin (2007). core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students with knowledge of economic analysis and will appeal to an international audience. It adopts an international perspective, using examples and case studies from the UK, the rest of Europe, and other countries.
Case Management Resource Guide
Online directory of Dorland Healthcare Information of over 110,000 healthcare service providers in 40 categories, including homecare, rehabilitation, long-term care, mental health and more. Searchable by organization name, service type, key word or geography.
CDC WONDER
GREAT SITE! WONDER provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data. Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research -- an easy-to-use, menu-driven system.
CEA Data Sources
Links to: *Data on the cost of medical goods and services. *Data used to calculate ambulatory care, hospitalization, and mortality rates. *Incidence and prevalence of diseases. *Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL). *Sites that provide access to multiple datasets. *Population Data (US Bureau of the Census)
CME Mall
Comprehensive online source for information about the Continuing Medical Education (CME) events in USA. It features extensive chronological listings of future medical meetings so that you can make informed choices within a selective time period and in his/her specialty and areas of interest.Each listing contains the sponsoring organization, the topic or title of the meeting, contact numbers for further information and registration opportunities. Also a direct link to the CME page of the sponsoring organization is given.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH)
Essential site for any therapeutic area you are working on. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types: (1) Complete reviews - Regularly updated Cochrane Reviews, prepared and maintained by Collaborative Review Groups;(2)Protocols - Protocols for reviews currently being prepared. Protocols are the background, objectives and methods of reviews in preparation.
Conferences and Publications Listings in Pharmaceuticals
SMi Pharmaceutical Meta Site. Searchable. Also includes regulatory updates, clinical developments, etc.
Consumer Reports Health: Drug Effectiveness Review Project
Consumer Reports publication "Best Buy Drugs (or Best Drugs For Less)" which rates 200 Rx and OTC drugs on efficacy and cost, using an "unbiased review of the best scientific evidence available". They work closely with experts at Drug Effectiveness Review Project, part of the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
Countway Library of Medicine
An alliance of the Boston Medical Library and Harvard Medical School
Curriculum for Health Economics
A wonderful compilation of books, journals, articles, websites, databases, etc. that you would need if you are new to health economics. In fact, it's a great list if you are an experienced health economist. It only goes up to 2003 but it provides a wonderful, exhaustive overview of relevant resources. Great for students and for teachers preparing courses.
Directory of Healthcare Recruiters and Search Firms
Listing of hundreds of recruiters and headhunters with names, firms, postal, phone, fax, web and e-mail addresses. Time-saver for job hunters.
Disease Management ROI: Benchmarks, Metrics, and Case Studies for Success
Join the Managed Care Information Center and experts on disease management analysis for a discussion about disease management and ROI in this special 90-minute audio conference which took place in May 2007 with Ron Z. Goetzel, Ph.D. Director, Cornell Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Matthew McGinnis,Sr. Director, Ctr for Health Research, Healthways, and Thomas W. Wilson, Ph.D. Epidemiologist Trajectory HealthCare. Cost is $247 for CD + materials
ESRNexus
TrialStat's ESRNexus (electronic systematic review nexus), a publicly searchable online coded reference library. ESRNexus is designed to facilitate and promote the reuse of data that has been manually extracted from reference materials such as journal articles during the conduct of systematic reviews that have used TrialStat's SRS tool. References in the database are searchable in a manner similar to the United States National Library of Medicine's PubMed database, but in addition to standard fields, ESRNexus references also contain coded fields for all of the data to help improve the precision of searches. ESRNexus represents a significant collaborative undertaking by the research community to build the world's most comprehensive library of summarized reference material in the areas of human medicine, pharmacoeconomics, social and demographic research and veterinary medicine. The ESRNexus Library contains over 17 Million References and Clinical Trial Listings with contributions from the National Library of Medicine and participants throughout the research community.
Evidence-based Medicine: meta site
WOW and Great Site! Comprehensive site with links to resources for evidence-based medicine. Click on L"ibrary": Many links to articles on how to evaluate. "Organizations" link is full of great information. "Questionnaires" link provides evidence-based medicine evaluation tools.
Evidence-based Medicine: an Introduction
Toolkit to aid the practice of EBM. Tips, how to frame question, literature sources, how to critically appraise, etc.
Getting It Right: Designing Outcomes-Based Physician Incentive Compensation
Is there a "right way" to get physician buy-in of pay-for-performance (P4P)? What makes for an effective outcomes-based incentive program? Listen to this executive-level teleconference on CD-ROM. This special program was sponsored by Managed Care Information Center. This conference was held on July 28, 2005. Cost $149 for CD + materials
HCUP data: direct access
This will take you directly to the data you want.
he P4P Potential: Overcoming the Challenges and Recognizing the Opportunities
The Managed Care Information Center editorial team analyzed the growth and adoption of healthcare provider – physician and hospital – pay-for-performance programs around the country
Health Affairs Blog
Health Economics - Places To Go
A good list of resources available on the web, compiled by a health economic researcher from Germany.
Health Economics published papers database
Subscription service
Health Forum
Publishes books, other communications, information, education and research products and services that advance leadership for health.
Health Plan Wellness and Health Improvement Programs: What’s Working Today to Achieve Member Commitment and Participation
Discover what’s working in health plan wellness and health promotion programs, award winning and unique programs, best practices, ROI, and lessons learned in this special audio conference, “Winning Ideas in Health Plan Wellness and Health Improvement Programs: What’s Working Today to Achieve Member Commitment and Participation.” The program was held Tuesday, November 15, 2005.
Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles
HiT profiles seek to provide relevant information to support policy-makers and analysts in the development of health systems in Europe. They are building blocks that can be used: * to learn in detail about different approaches to the organization, financing and delivery of health services and the role of the main actors in health systems;* to describe the institutional framework, the process, content and implementation of health care reform programmes; * to highlight challenges and areas that require more in-depth analysis; and * to provide a tool for the dissemination of information on health systems and the exchange of experiences of reform strategies between policy-makers and analysts in different countries.
Healthcare Management Library
From National Health Information and HCPRO, Inc. newsletters that focus on payors and vendors affiliated with payors, such as disease management, capitation and consumer-driven healthcare.
Healthcare Trends & Forecasts in 2008: Performance Expectations for the Healthcare Industry
4 key thought leaders' predictions. Cost is $117
Health-Nexus
Health information site that offers links to sites in all categories of health.
Indian MEDLARS Centre
Site of the 17th International MEDLARS Centre providing access to bibliography of 75 peer reviewed Indian journals.
InPharm.com
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics. Includes News, views, jobs, directories of agencies, professional organization and freelancers, along with thousands of links out into the Internet.
ISPOR Managed Care Outcomes Research Digest
Database of abstracts and citations for outcomes research papers on managed care services. This database can be searched by the type of managed care service provided (disease management, drug benefit design, drug formulary, drug utilization review, home infusion therapy, patient education, pharmaceutical services, provider practice management), by the outcomes assessed (clinical, economic, quality of life, and compliance/persistence, or by key word such as author. This database was developed by the ISPOR Managed Care Research Digest Working Group of the ISPOR Managed Care Special Interest Group.
JEFFline at Thomas Jefferson
Johns Hopkins University Medical Library
Life Sciences World
Online resource for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical devices and life sciences industries.
Managed Care Information Center
Clearinghouse for healthcare executives' managed care information needs by publishing newsletters, advisories, jobs, guides, manuals, special reports and books.
Managed Care Information Center
The Managed Care Information Center: Providing Essential Management Information to Healthcare Executives
Managed Care On-line
Specializing in delivering managed care information and applications via the internet and software applications.
Managed Care: What's Ahead, a Forecast
Join thought leaders in the managed care industry to hear different perspectives of the challenges ahead in the 90-minute audio conference, “Forecast: What’s Ahead for Managed Care.” Sponsored by The Executive Report on Managed Care and the Managed Care Information Center, this executive-level program was held on February 23, 2006. Cost is $227 for CD + materials
Medical Devices Business Review
Medical Device Business Review is online source for the medical device industry news and developments. It’s a resource for medical device manufacturers, suppliers and contractors information.
Medical Matrix: Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources
Ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated, updated clinical medicine resources
Medical Resource Reviews Database
This database contains reviews of electronic medical information resources available by any of the following means: browsable WWW sites, or downloadable datasets and software, or on CD-ROMS. References index is periodically computed for each site as the number of references from other sites. The resource types covered are: reference, learning materials, simulation. The areas covered are: Anatomy, Physiology, Internal Medicine, Physical Therapy, Exercise Therapy, Pharmacology, Dermatology, Dentistry, Acupuncture, Nursing, Gastroenterology, Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Urology, Pulmonology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology, Prevention, Naturopathy, Sports Medicine, Radiology, Lab, Psychology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Primary Care, Endocrinology.
Medicare 2007 Outpatient Coding and Reimbursement Final Rule Changes
oin Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor and the reimbursement experts of BESLER Consulting, a leading advisory firm in healthcare financial management and operations, to get a better understanding of the new Medicare coding and reimbursement changes for OPPS and how it will impact your organization. This live 90-minute audio conference happened on December 7, 2006. Cost is $227 for CD+materials
Medscape
Offers Medline and other database searching. Several online journals available. Publishers of Drug Benefit Trends.
Merck Manuals
Online versions of the most widely used medical text. Covers human diseases, symptoms, common clinical procedures, and laboratory tests.
Mergers and Acquisitions in the Managed Care Industry: The Trends, Issues and Impact
Hear from speakers at three leading investment banking companies that focus on merger & acquisition services in the healthcare industry for both providers and payors to learn the current trends in M&A’s, what are the issues, what are state officials' issues, what acquirers are seeking in a suitable fit, the strategic buyer's interests, and, finally, the impact on providers in a consolidated market.
National Directory of Managed Care Organizations,
most comprehensive and thorough directory available today. The more than 700-page directory includes market intelligence information on more than 1,500 managed care organizations, representing 5,279 managed care plans. The directory is indexed eight ways for your ease of use, to make it easy to find just what you need. Click here to order for $350
National Library of Medicine
Excellent resource. Search Medline for free here!
Oncology Market Access U.S.
Oncology Market access U.S., Seventh Edition provides leading-edge research and analysis on critical reimbursement, pricing, and competitive issues affecting the cancer drug market in the United States. This annual subscription includes direct access to our cancer marketing analytics team as well as ongoing live briefings covering the most pressing issues for manufacturers of oncology drugs. From KantarHealth.
Outcomes Research Fact Sheet from AHRQ
Great short primer for students, educators, and media personnel.
Outlook for Managed Care 2008
Growth/profitability projects, enrollment trends, premium outlook, speciality outlook, impact of universal healthcare proposals on MCO, predictions, etc.
Pay for Performance: Lessons Learned
CD Rom + materials from a discussion of past successes and the challenges ahead in the 90-minute audio conference, “Pay-For-Performance: Lessons Learned and Future Predictions.” This executive-level program took place on March 29, 2007. Cost is $247
Permedion Medical Reviews
Independent medical review services for the measurement and improvement of the health care field.
Pharma 2020: Challenging business models
Price Waterhouse releases latest report: "Pharma 2020: Challenging Business Models - Which Path Will You Take", explaining the need for collaboration with multiple inside and outside parties in order to succeed. Also can download prior Pharma 2020 reports on "The Vision", "Virtual R&D", "Marketing to the Future".
Pharmaceutical Industry News
Pharmaceutical Business Review provides latest pharma industry news, developments and analysis reports. It also offers a comprehensive breakdown of pharmaceutical manufacturers, contractors and suppliers information.
Quantifying Disease Management Return-on- Investment: Trends, Metrics, Evaluations, Transparency and Reality
This 50-page special report contains insider information from three leading experts in DM analytics. They review key principles in calculating ROI, how to establish metrics for evaluating DM programs, and common mistakes in measuring ROI. They also share some relevant case studies for comparison
Resources for Health Administrators and Professionals
Wealth of links, articles and information for all health and medical professionals, including info on industry news, careers, research, law, jobs, employers, salaries, publications and more.
Search Tool on Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics
Allows MeSH searching of MANY diseases.
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.
Spending by Consumers on Health Care: A Data Brief
Prepared for Congress December 2007.
Stedman
Stedman's is a leading publisher of medical references.
Urch Publishing
Links for Pricing and Reimbursement reports
Wellness Incentives: Beyond Mugs and T-Shirts
Explore the types of wellness incentives that work to boost participation and, most importantly, health improvement in this special 90-minute audio conference that took place on January 25, 2007. Cost is $227 for CD + materials
WHO CHOICE (International CEA)
WHO-CHOICE reports the costs and effects of a wide range of health interventions in the 14 epidemiological sub-regions (world divisions made based on geographical location and epidemiological profiles). The results of these cost-effectiveness analysis are assembled in regional databases, which policy makers can adapt to their specific country setting.




 

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