Leveraging RWD in Observational Studies: Understanding the Implications of Time-Related Biases
A Q&A with Samy Suissa, PhD Dr. Samy Suissa is a Co-Founder and Principal Investigator of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES). He is Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital and Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics[…]
Innovating RWE Organizations: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future
A Q&A with Christopher Boone, PhD, FACHE, FHIMMS Christopher Boone, PhD, is Vice President, Global Head of Health Economics and Outcomes Research at AbbVie. He is also an adjunct assistant professor of health administration at the New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, an active board member of several health[…]
Viewpoint: Life Sciences Should View Commercial Analytics Teams as a Revenue Generator
A Q&A with Vijay Raghavan, Associate Vice President, Market Analytics and Business Insights, AbbVie Vijay Raghavan is an Associate Vice President, Market Analytics and Business Insights at AbbVie. He was previously Head of Marketing Analytics for Allergan and was Program Committee Lead and Membership Chair for the Pharmaceutical Management Science[…]
How are Data Networks and International Collaboration Furthering Epidemiologic Research? A Q&A with Samy Suissa, PhD
Dr. Samy Suissa is a Co-Founder and Principal Investigator of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES). He is Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital and Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Medicine, McGill[…]
Interview with Dr. Mark Friedman on Covid-19 Complications and the Use of Real-World Data
Mark Friedman is VP of Medical Affairs for Panalgo. He is an internist with over 20 years of clinical and pharmacoeconomics consulting experience. He has management experience in the formulary and managed care implementation processes and also plays a major role in the design and implementation of clinically-oriented outcomes research studies,[…]
ICER Takes Aim at Rising Drug Prices: 7 Things to Know
Written by Charles Tao. As an organization that evaluates the comparative value of medical technologies, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) is no stranger to ruffling the feathers of the life sciences industry. Its track record of declaring that drugs are overpriced says it all (see our recent blog post for a fuller[…]
BHE Holds Annual User Conference for its Instant Health Data (IHD) Platform
BHE hosted its annual Instant Health Data (IHD) User Conference on March 20, 2019 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. This day-long event brought together IHD users and analytics team leads from 20 top-ranked pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and research organizations.
Five Ways to Use Early-Stage Models to Support Your Drug’s Value Proposition
Written by Jennifer Benner. In my previous post, I explored the differences between early- and late-stage economic modeling, including a discussion of the benefits of using early-stage models. In this post, I will examine 5 ways that utilizing early-stage models can benefit drug manufacturers and help produce more efficient, cost-effective drug[…]
How to Predict if a Drug will be Cost-Effective: A Case for Early-Stage Modeling
Written by Jennifer Benner. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a crystal ball that could predict, during the very early stages of drug development, whether a new medication would represent good value for money at its intended launch price? Or which efficacy targets it needed to hit in order to remain cost-effective? Or what an assessment by the[…]
Healthcare IT's March Madness: A Recap of HIMSS18
Although the NCAA’s March Madness is just heating up, my own March madness is starting to wind down. For those of us in New England, March’s madness really kicked off with three wild Nor’easters. Fortunately for me, these storms coincided with trips to Las Vegas for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)’s Annual[…]