Tag: Precision

Using HEOR Methods to Reduce Health Inequalities

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Join me tomorrow, 9/26, 12:00 PM EDT, as PRECISIONheor’s Jason Shafrin and Meena Venkatachalam discuss their recent blog commentary in the health policy journal Health Affairs on how novel methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis can be used to expand traditional value frameworks improve health outcomes for underserved communities. Moderated by Precision’s Kelly Wilder, there will be a live Q&A following the webinar.…

How to regulate precision medicines

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Currently, pharmaceutical treatments that are used in the U.S. need to gain an approval from the FDA.  The FDA’s approval is contingent on a demonstration of efficacy and safety in a randomized controlled trial (RCT).  However, precision medicine makes the standard FDA approval problematic. As described in Breckenridge et al. (2016), in the precision medicine…