Global drug pricing continues to ignite fresh controversies as health policy makers, government health programs, health insurers, and pharmaceutical companies meet in heated debate. Solutions for health around the world rely on stakeholders having a clear understanding of the structure and logic behind drug pricing, but the complexities of the...
The life sciences companies are looking for new board members and senior executives - and today's challenging business, payor, and regulatory environment requires new skills. In a new episode of the MediStrategy podcast, learn how pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical diagnostics, and medical device firms find new board directors, chief executive...
The research and development pipeline for drugs and biologics is experiencing a tremendous surge in innovation, which will come to fruition within the next five years. This surge in prescription medicines will parallel a number of technology-enabled transformations in health care delivery that will dramatically increase access to health...
How have alternative health care payment models, aimed at lowering costs while improving patient outcomes, affected physicians and physician practices in the United States? A recent RAND Corporation study, sponsored by the American Medical Association, looks at the effects payment reform models have on physicians' finances, practice management, and...
Healthcare is undergoing a revolution in the transformation of data into credible, actionable information for decision making at all levels, including financing, coverage, reimbursement, product development, diagnoses and treatment, clinical care delivery, and consumer choices. In a fascinating new interview, one of the world’s top experts on health informatics discusses...
As policymakers in Washington argue over the best way to reform America's health care system, a compelling new book by Eric Topol, MD, suggests that the advance of technology is going to change how health care services are delivered in more profound and unpredictable ways than most people can...
A vast amount of valuable scientific data coming out of clinical trials around the world is being lost. This information is often not published and not made available to other researchers. Sharing this data could significantly advance medical research, quicken the pace of scientific discovery, speed innovation of new...
The practice of behavioral healthcare is being transformed by technological innovations in mobile health and a growing understanding of the role patient behavior, behavioral health conditions, and dual physical/behavioral health diagnoses play in health outcomes and costs. This transformation has in turn given rise to a profusion of fascinating and...
While mountains of raw health care data continue to grow, the challenge of turning that data into usable, actionable information is largely being unmet. There are certainly tremendous new opportunities to use information to improve health care decisions at the purchaser, plan, provider, and patient levels and thereby improve...
Delivery of physical medical care and behavioral health services is too often uncoordinated, operating in silos with little or no communication between physicians and other providers providing a patient with primary, specialty, acute, and pharmacy services and behavioral health professionals proving that same patient with mental health care or...
