How Real World Evidence from Patient Support Programs Can Enhance Patient Care
This IQVIA blog post details how Patient Support Programs (PSP) have evolved from providing drug bridging and financial support to [...]
The NICE methods of health technology evaluation: the case for change
NICE recently posted a consultation entitled "The NICE methods of health technology evaluation: the case for change" which details its [...]
Vibra Healthcare and Ernest Health Select Inovalon’s EASE® All-Payer Solution
Inovalon, a leading provider of cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare, today announced separate 5-year agreements with two prominent post-acute care [...]
ICER Publishes Final Report on Hemophilia A Therapies
Today the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) released a report concluding that compared to common current dosing levels [...]
Conduent Joins with Experian Health to Expand Patient Assistance Capabilities
Conduent recently announced a commercial agreement with Experian Health, a leading provider of revenue cycle management products that include patient engagement, patient access and patient collections. The [...]
Health Equity Should Be Key to Value-Based Payment And Delivery Reform
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated existing health inequities in the United States. Black and Latinx Americans have experienced [...]
Balancing Lower U.S. Prescription Drug Prices And Innovation
This Health Affairs blog post provides background on U.S. drug prices and summarizes an expert roundtable discussion held in June [...]
Amazon Opens Online Pharmacy
The retail colossus opened an online pharmacy Tuesday that allows customers to order medication or prescription refills, and have them [...]
Call for Proposals: Health Data for Action
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) signature research program, Health Data for Action: Leveraging Health Data for Actionable Insights (HD4A), aims to [...]
Value-Based Pricing For Treatments And Vaccines In The Context of COVID-19
Referencing ICER’s white paper and webinar series on the same topic, researchers at Tufts' Center for the Evaluation of Value and [...]
AMCP Foundation is Now Accepting 2021 Summer Internship Applications
AMCP Foundation is now seeking applicants for the following programs: AMCP Foundation/AbbVie, Inc. Specialized Summer Internship Program in Health Outcomes [...]
The Problem With Discriminatory Value Assessments
By utilizing discriminatory value assessments, foreign governments like in the U.K., have created barriers to care for individuals w/ disabilities [...]
Virtual ISPOR Short Course on Reimbursement Systems for Pharmaceuticals in Europe
On December 1-2, 2020, this course will discuss health technology decision-making processes for reimbursement decisions for pharmaceuticals in France, Germany, [...]
[Webinar] European Pharma Trends Beyond the Pandemic
Tune in on November 24th at 8 am EST /1pm GMT for the third and final webinar of the series: [...]
What Now for Remdesivir?
The World Health Organization advised against using remdesivir to treat patients hospitalized with COVID-19, citing a recent WHO-sponsored study that [...]
Trump Announces Two Rules Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices
President Trump on Friday announced two major actions aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs. One action, the ‘Favored [...]
ICER and Other Stakeholders address High Cost of Rare Disease Therapy
At the AMCP Nexus 2020 Virtual meeting, two major themes emerged from the specialty pharmacy practice sessions: new methods for [...]
[Podcast] From Pharma to the Medicine Cabinet: Who Manages the Drugs?
Drugmakers, pharmacies, wholesale distributors, physicians, pharmacy benefit managers—the world of prescription drugs can seem extraordinarily complex. In Episode 3 of [...]
Medical Affairs Mentorship Program Accepting Applications
The Medical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS) Mentorship Program is now accepting applications for mentors and mentees. Application deadline is December 18 [...]
New Data Shows Virtual Technologies Key to Competitive Edge
A September 2020 survey of nearly 100 specialty pharmacy and home infusion providers from SmartBrief and Citus Health reveals new [...]
The Rebate Rule is Back
On Friday, Trump revived the once-scrapped plan to eliminate rebates that drugmakers pay to pharmacy benefit managers with an executive [...]
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Creates New Education Center for Rare Cancer Patients
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has launched Find the Right Fit, a new digital education hub focused on two rare blood cancer types—myelodysplastic syndrome [...]
Pathways for Regulatory and HTA of Histology Independent Therapies
Histology independent therapies represent a new era in personalized healthcare and drug development while challenging existing diagnostic and value assessment [...]
[Podcast] The Straight Dope on Hospital and Payer Transparency Rules
Three transparency rules have come out of CMS in the past months. The first was announced last year, and it [...]
Beyond COVID-19: Life sciences reimagined
Every biopharma function has had to evaluate and adapt its roles and responsibilities almost overnight. So, how do we navigate [...]