from NewsFeed at http://bit.ly/2oqQWFI on March 31, 2017 at 05:05PM Professor Jean-Éric Tarride has been appointed Director of CHEPA, effective May 1, 2017 pending final approval from McMaster’s governing bodies. The announcement was made March 31 by Dr. Stephen Collins, Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Health Sciences. Tarride succeeds Michel Grignon who was appointed Director in […]
from PeterUbel.com at http://bit.ly/2oiFejx on March 31, 2017 at 02:19PM Money can undermine our morals. If you don’t believe me, look what happened to a group of four-through-six-year-olds who were brought in for a simple experiment. Researchers asked them to sort objects from a box. Half sorted coins, and half sorted buttons. Then they were […]
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2nrEhRZ on March 31, 2017 at 01:17PM Value frameworks are mostly still in their infancy, but they are proliferating quickly. How do they need to evolve? Find out what Susan Cantrell, CEO of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, has to say about this and more, here. (Source: […]
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2oiA7j3 on March 31, 2017 at 12:47PM ISPOR’s Value in Health recently published a special themed issue that examines the development and dissemination of high-quality, unbiased value assessment frameworks. Find out more here. (Source: ISPOR, 2/26/17)
from Applied Health Economics and Health Policy at http://bit.ly/2nEyWaU on March 31, 2017 at 12:24PM Abstract Background Increases in public expenditures to general practitioner (GP) services and specialist care have spurred debate over whether to implement user fees for healthcare services such as GP consultations in Denmark. Objective The objective of this study was to […]
from Applied Health Economics and Health Policy at http://bit.ly/2oicDuo on March 31, 2017 at 12:24PM Abstract Objective This paper estimates productivity loss using the health of the patient in order to allow indirect estimation of these costs for inclusion in economic evaluation. Methods Data from two surveys of inpatients [Health outcomes data repository (HODaR) sample […]
from THCB at http://bit.ly/2nHJNCN on March 31, 2017 at 09:46AM BY DAVID INTROCASO (After this essay was submitted to THCB the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on March 28th titled, “Protecting Young Athletes From Sexual Abuse.” USA Gymnastics refused to appear and provide testimony likely, in part, because USA Gymnastics’ President, Steve Penny, was […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/2nmCmNN on March 31, 2017 at 05:49AM Without fanfare, a rule restoring full research access to Medicare and Medicaid data has gone into effect. The rule had been adopted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA) in the waning days of the Obama administration, but was placed […]
from Health Economics and Decision Science Blog @ ScHARR at http://bit.ly/2nCcXBv on March 31, 2017 at 02:00AM Here are the latest publications from March, including those ‘In Press’ by HEDS colleagues and their collaborators. © Diabetic Medicine Breeze, P.R., Thomas, C., Squires, H., Brennan, A., Greaves, C., Diggle, P., Brunner, E., Tabak, […]
from Econsalut at http://bit.ly/2nGpg1y on March 31, 2017 at 01:31AM GENE THERAPY: Understanding the Science, Assessing the Evidence, and Paying for Value Approximately 12-14 investigational gene therapies for additional ultra-rare conditions and some for more common… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2npEsxj on March 31, 2017 at 01:03AM The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics is 10! There are a number of events and workshops. The main celebration of this milestone will take place in Barcelona on March 31 and April 1, 2017. FRIDAY, MARCH 31 Roundtable with members of the Barcelona GSE Scientific […]
from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/2nQTlvC on March 30, 2017 at 10:22PM This week at the 2017 Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) conference, the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy (JMCP) announced its annual Award for Excellence. The award was established in 2002 “…to recognize an article that represents the best scholarly work in […]
from Brookings: Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/2mTJjuC on March 30, 2017 at 02:19PM Author Henry J. Aaron The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair Senior Fellow – Economic Studies “When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” according to the old saying. When the American Health Care Act failed last Friday, the going got pretty […]
from Brookings: Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/2mTJjuC on March 30, 2017 at 02:14PM Author Henry J. Aaron The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair Senior Fellow – Economic Studies “When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” according to the old saying. When the American Health Care Act failed last Friday, the going got pretty […]
from Health Care Policy and Marketplace … at http://bit.ly/2olUkSp on March 30, 2017 at 11:09AM Bloomberg is out with a report that Anthem may exit most of their Obamacare exchange markets next year: Anthem, Inc. is likely to pull back from Obamacare’s individual insurance markets in a big way for next year, according to a […]
from THCB at http://bit.ly/2mSTqQl on March 30, 2017 at 09:23AM By JEFF GOLDSMITH Judging by the dazed expression on President Trump’s face at his Friday afternoon press conference, it is clear that he never saw his first major political defeat coming. It was as if he had stepped off the curb looking the other direction […]
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2olBYkj on March 30, 2017 at 09:12AM Mylan’s reputation has really taken a hit this year and is not under investigation for its massive price increases of the life-saving emergency shot, EpiPen. However, in countries outside of the U.S. some patients are finding the product defective. Although no […]
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2ocy53W on March 30, 2017 at 09:12AM The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is one of the hardest hit agencies by President Trump’s proposed budget and is set to face an 18% cut. Science leaders in the US and beyond are warning of the consequences for research and […]
from PeterUbel.com at http://bit.ly/2nzeEQf on March 30, 2017 at 08:32AM Poverty wreaks havoc on children’s lives, stunting their intellectual development and harming their health. Children raised in poverty experience declines in growth and development, becoming susceptible to numerous otherwise preventable illnesses in the process. Tragically, almost 1 in 5 American children live in poverty: NEJM […]
from Value in Health at http://bit.ly/2nzkUaD on March 30, 2017 at 08:13AM Publication date: Source:Value in Health Author(s): Emmanuel Chazard, Grégoire Ficheur, Jean-Baptiste Beuscart, Cristian Preda
from feed/http://bit.ly/1sYYZLQ at http://bit.ly/2oBvNYE on March 30, 2017 at 06:43AM New Paper in Quality of Life Research – Can Patients’ Self-Reported Pain be Compared and Aggregated in Multi-Country Studies? Thursday, 30 March 2017 OHE’s Yan Feng, Mike Herdman, David Parkin and Nancy Devlin have a new paper in Quality of Life Research to exploring whether […]
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2oBYSmL on March 30, 2017 at 06:11AM During a session at the recent Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Annual Meeting, panelist discussed the move away from fee-for-service (FFS) and the embracing of value-based care contracts and accountable care organizations (ACOs). Learn more about what was discussed here. (Source: […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/2nD6Qyp on March 30, 2017 at 05:01AM I’ve got a piece at Vox discussing what happens next with House v. Price (formerly House v. Burwell), the litigation over whether Congress has appropriated the money to make cost-sharing payments. To bring you quickly up to speed: a district court in Washington, […]
from OHE News at http://bit.ly/2oBvNYE on March 30, 2017 at 04:51AM New Paper in Quality of Life Research – Can Patients’ Self-Reported Pain be Compared and Aggregated in Multi-Country Studies? Thursday, 30 March 2017 OHE’s Yan Feng, Mike Herdman, David Parkin and Nancy Devlin have a new paper in Quality of Life Research to exploring […]
from News at http://bit.ly/2oBvNYE on March 30, 2017 at 04:47AM New Paper in Quality of Life Research – Can Patients’ Self-Reported Pain be Compared and Aggregated in Multi-Country Studies? Thursday, 30 March 2017 OHE’s Yan Feng, Mike Herdman, David Parkin and Nancy Devlin have a new paper in Quality of Life Research to exploring whether […]
from http://www.irdes.fr at http://bit.ly/2nyiARq on March 30, 2017 at 04:05AM En 2015, le cancer du sein est le premier cancer féminin en termes dincidence (54 000 nouveaux cas) et de mortalité (12 000 décès) [Inca, 2015]…
from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/2oBlxjh on March 30, 2017 at 01:31AM This is a normative question. Some people would prefer a society with more income re-distribution. More income re-distribution is “fairer” in the sense that fewer people would suffer from a low standard of living. Most societies (and individual humans) place at least a some value in insuring […]
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2nCu5IY on March 30, 2017 at 01:15AM I’ll speak at and become a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Economics and Finance (RACEF), in Barcelona this evening. El Nobel de Economía Alvin Roth ingresa en la Real Academia de Ciencias Económicas y Financieras Here’s a recent article about RACEF, which […]
from Health Economics and Decision Science Blog @ ScHARR at http://bit.ly/2odjF3X on March 30, 2017 at 12:00AM The Task Force Report, which includes our own Praveen Thokala provides a comprehensive overview of the methodology, including: (1) definitions, key concepts, and the main steps in building an optimization model; (2) the types of problems where an […]
from Health Affairs at http://bit.ly/2ojpYzN on March 29, 2017 at 08:05PM The effort to repeal, replace, and repair the ACA faces myriad policy and political challenges.
from Health Affairs at http://bit.ly/2o9TQBq on March 29, 2017 at 08:05PM The Affordable Care Act (ACA) reformed the individual health insurance market. Because insurers can no longer vary their offers of coverage based on applicants’ health status, the ACA established a risk adjustment program to equalize health-related cost differences across plans. The ACA also established […]
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2nx0nDK on March 29, 2017 at 03:38PM Powering Commercial Effectiveness Through Big Data and Analytics explores how Big Data is evolving beyond the patient experience and coming of age. Read it to hear from 11 experts at the forefront of pharma’s data revolution. Find out more here. (Source: […]
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2ozCL0q on March 29, 2017 at 03:08PM Biosimilarpipeline recently reported more than 700 biosimilars currently in development with more than 660 companies involved in the biosimilar land rush. The number of biosimilars in development however, far exceeds the number of agents that will be approved in the near […]
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2ozAZMZ on March 29, 2017 at 02:38PM Dymaxium Healthcare Innovations, Inc. and Advera Health Analytics, Inc., recently announced an expansion of their partnership providing users of the AMCP eDossier System access to Advera’s drug safety Evidex Alerts. Find out more here. (Source: prweb, 3/28/17)
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2oicoNh on March 29, 2017 at 02:08PM The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI)’s recent White Paper outlines the opportunities for, and obstacles to, value-based contracting, and provides recommendations for moving forward. Read more and find out how to download here. (Source: NEHI, 3/23/17)
from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2o8KNki on March 29, 2017 at 01:38PM After the American Health Care Act failed to pass the House on Friday, several Republicans remarked that future health care legislation would come after Obamacare “exploded.” Earlier this year, a Health Affairs Blog post examined whether the premium increases in the […]
from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes at http://bit.ly/2nkdF5i on March 29, 2017 at 01:15PM Quality of life refers to a person’s experienced standard of health, comfort and happiness and is typically measured using subjective self-report scales. Despite increasing scientific interest in the value of …
from THCB at http://bit.ly/2nMRQOZ on March 29, 2017 at 12:46PM By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD Last week, the AHCA was pulled from the House floor after not enough votes could be secured in favor of its passage. A Washington Post article reported President Trump’s thoughts on the matter. “We couldn’t get one Democrat vote, not one. […]
from Paceomics at http://bit.ly/2nLXeSH on March 29, 2017 at 09:20AM News release: “Influential health guidelines updated to keep pace with advancing economic methods” …. “critical to decisions being made about who covers payment for medications, medical devices, and methods of treating and diagnosing Canadian patients” Need to get up to speed to deliver the new CADTH […]
from THCB at http://bit.ly/2ogH01B on March 29, 2017 at 07:50AM By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON “We are now contemplating, Heaven save the mark, a bill that would tax the well for the benefit of the ill.” Although that quote reads like it could be part of the Republican repeal-and-replace assault against the Affordable Care Act (ACA), […]
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