RWE and Patient-Centered Outcomes
Widespread availability of real-world data has enabled the generation of evidence and insights that benefit patients, providers, plans, and industry. When that evidence reflects patient outcomes, it provides an invaluable perspective on the consumer experience. Explore our real-world evidence (RWE) analyses and guidance to support your strategic decisions.
Health Plans Are Interested in Tying Drug Payments to Patient Outcomes
Hepatitis C and Oncology Are Top Therapeutic Area Targets
Key Takeaways from the FasterCures Value Assessment 2.0 Webinar
On June 1, Josh Seidman participated in a panel discussion hosted by FasterCures to discuss Avalere's collaboration with FasterCures to develop a patient-centric value framework.
Christie Teigland Receives AMCP Platinum Award
Christie Teigland, PhD, vice president, Advanced Analytics, recently received the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s (AMCP) prestigious Platinum Award for her research entitled “Association of Socioeconomic and Clinical Factors with Rates of High-Risk Medication Use in Medicare Advantage Plans.”
While Progress Has Been Made, Barriers Still Impede Fully Interoperable Health Information Technology
On behalf of The Pew Charitable Trusts, Avalere conducted research to identify current barriers to interoperability and some of the best potential solutions in the current political and business environments.
Integrating the Patient Perspective into the Development of Value Frameworks
FasterCures and Avalere partner to develop a patient-perspective value framework.
New Analysis Finds Medicare Payments Higher for Episodes Initiated in Hospital Outpatient Departments
A new analysis by Avalere examines differences in Medicare spending for episodes of care before and after cardiovascular imaging, colonoscopy, and evaluation and management services. Avalere applied a risk adjustment methodology to account for differences in patient demographics and patient severity across settings. The findings suggest when care is initiated in the typically higher-paying HOPD setting than in physicians' offices and ambulatory surgical centers, the services that follow also result in higher spending relative to when care is initiated in the office setting.
Key Steps to Improve Patient-Clinician Cost-of-Care Conversations
With growing out-of-pocket spending for care, patients are increasingly interested in knowing, upfront, how much their care will cost them, and how it relates to the quality and appropriateness of their care. Yet, various barriers often prevent these conversations from occurring during routine clinical encounters.
Video: Keys to a Successful Patient Engagement Strategy
How can you position your organization for new payment models that emphasize quality of care over quantity of services performed or therapies sold? Engage patients. In this short video, Josh Seidman, Avalere Payment & Delivery Innovation, defines the key imperatives to creating a successful patient engagement strategy that will bring your organization to the forefront of the industry's transition from fee-for-service to value-based care.
Clarity on How Pharmaceutical Companies Can Communicate Data Could Spur Investment in Evidence Generation
New research from Avalere Health finds that 86% of pharmaceutical companies would invest more in studies to support the development of healthcare economic information if provided additional guidance on their ability to use this evidence with external audiences.
Webinar: Focus on Value: Understanding the Impact of Performance Contracting on Market Dynamics
Avalere hosts a series of webinars on “Navigating the New Dynamics of Outcomes Contracting and Risk Sharing Arrangements”. While traditional rebating and discounting terms have been a staple of industry contract negotiations, a new strategic focus is emerging on additional modes through which overall value can be measured for the wave of high-cost drugs now coming to shore.
Avalere Issues White Paper on the Management of High-Risk Medicare Populations in Partnership with The SCAN Foundation
New Avalere research for The SCAN Foundation demonstrates the ROI potential of well-targeted care coordination programs supported by robust data.
Avalere Heads to ISPOR with Panels and Presentations
Many of Avalere's experts are heading north to Canada for ISPOR's 19th Annual International Meeting, where we'll have several panel discussions and poster presentations.
Big Data Continues to Shape Healthcare in 2014
There is a rapid expansion of large and diverse data sets -- what is more commonly referred to as Big Data - as a result of the digitization of clinical and research data.
New Research: Real World Evidence
New Avalere research shows market demand for real world evidence (RWE), but a lack of stakeholder consensus on how to define it.