Aetion, HealthVerity Launch New Tools for Assessing COVID-19 Treatments
Aetion and HealthVerity have launched a new set of tools for biopharma companies and regulators looking to assess new COVID-19 [...]
IQVIA Execs Share Insight into COVID-19 Impact
IQVIA executives in an on-demand webinar highlight the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life sciences industry. The briefing [...]
AMCP’s Andel Talks Drug Pricing Proposals Ahead of Election
Melissa Andel, Applied Policy vice president of health policy, discussed during an AMCP eLearning Days presentation drug pricing proposals in [...]
COVID-19 Evidence Accelerator Aims to Facilitate Collaboration
The Reagan-Udall Foundation, in partnership with Friends of Cancer Research, recently launched a new initiative for the FDA aimed at [...]
Tufts-CEVR Announces First Senior Fellow
Tufts Medical Center's Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) announced Sean Tunis would join the [...]
Collaboration Announces Framework to Bolster COVID-19 Research
A new multi-company collaborative announced the launch of a new framework aimed at bolstering research and development of COVID-19 treatments. [...]
ICER Taps Campbell as Senior VP for Health Economics
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) on Thursday, April 23, announced the appointment of Jonathan Campbell as the [...]
Retail Medicine Spending Expected to Remain Stable
New projections from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) suggest retail medicine spending will remain stable through the [...]
Supreme Court Delays Arguments on Arkansas’s PBM Law
The Supreme Court has pushed back arguments in a case involving an Arkansas law that regulates the rates at which [...]
Startups Push Forward Despite Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't stopping some startups from pushing forward, according to a MedCity News report. According to the report, [...]
JCPH’s Nash Discusses Return to Normalcy After First Wave of COVID-19
Jefferson College of Public Health Founding Dean Emeritus David Nash says testing will be key as the U.S. looks to [...]
PhRMA: Value-Based Contracts Lead to Solid Out-of-Pocket Savings
Value-based arrangements between pharma and Express Scripts generated about $800,000 in savings on patients' out-of-pocket costs, PhRMA suggests in a [...]
Article Highlights State of HTA
A recent article published in Value & Outcomes Spotlight looks at the health technology assessment (HTA) landscape across the globe. [...]
Report: Remdesivir Trials Posting Promising Results
Gilead's COVID-19 treatment, remdesivir, is showing some promise in clinical trials which have seen swift recoveries of symptoms in severe [...]
Frakt, Stevens Seek Input on Planned Survey on Post-Pandemic Predictions
Rob Stevens and Austin Frakt are developing a survey on predictions for post-pandemic behavior and trends, and have asked for [...]
Report: Manufacturing Costs for Coronavirus Treatments Could Range on the Low End
Treatments for COVID-19, including hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir, could see very low manufacturing costs, according to a Bloomberg report. According to [...]
ISPOR 2020 Virtual Nears
The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research's (ISPOR) annual conference, which has gone virtual in response to the COVID-19 [...]
NHC Launches Online Value Classroom
The National Health Council (NHC) recently announced the launch of the Value Classroom, a new online learning platform aimed at [...]
HealthCore’s Beachler, Lanes Talk Bolstering RWE with New Tech
In the latest tHEORetically Speaking blog post, HealthCore's Daniel Beachler, Safety & Epidemiology associate director, and Stephen Lanes, Safety & [...]
Revamped Prescription Delivery Company to Include AI Solutions
A venture launched last year aims to give MailMyPrescriptions.Com, a prescription delivery service, a total facelift and integrate artificial intelligence [...]
Report: Value Assessments Should Include Employer-Relevant Elements
A recent report by the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions found that the lack of employer-relevant elements in value [...]
MedPAC to CMS: Exempt 2020 Data When Calculating Future Benchmarks
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to toss 2020 performance [...]
Mayo Clinic Develops Rapid-Detection Tool for COVID-19
A team of 230 Mayo Clinic experts has developed a new system that can rapidly identify which employees have been [...]
ICER Names Venable VP of Patient Engagement
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) announced the appointment of Yvette Venable as its first-ever vice president of [...]
How COVID-19 is Impacting Outsourcing Engagements
A recent article on the Future of Sourcing looks at how the outsourcing industry can better navigate the challenges presented [...]