Vital Transformation understands the implications of new medical procedures, technologies and policies. We measure their impact on current clinical practices in close collaboration with health care professionals, researchers, and regulators. Through our web platform and client network, we are able to communicate our findings with international decision makers and stakeholders. Vital Transformation has presented or participated in conferences sponsored by The Royal College of Physicians, European Health Forum Gastein, The European Commission, London Genetics, The European Science Foundation, The European Microelectronics Summit, and others. Our Vital Transformation branded round-tables, webinars, and conferences are often oversubscribed, and are regularly presented in partnership with global thought-leaders and organisations.
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Azar’s Plan To Tie U.S. Drug Prices To Foreign Ones Will Impact Investments In R&D
Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg © 2019 BLOOMBERG FINANCE LP Publish date: June 21, 2019 By John LaMattina, Contributor for Forbes Azar claims that HHS can reduce spending on Medicare Part B drugs with little impact on biopharmaceutical R&D investment. Duane Schulthess, Managing Director at VitalTransformation, questioned Azar’s claim on this. As he delved into specific compounds on Azar’s list of 27, he found some startling data. One striking case is with Biogen’s Multiple Sclerosis drug, Tysabri.
The International Pricing Index: What will be the Impact on Patients, Outcomes, and Innovation?
According to research from the US Health and Human Services, US tax payers pay 1.8 times the international price for medicines and are ‘subsidizing’ global healthcare. In order to combat this imbalance, the Trump administration is proposing the “International Pricing Index” (IPI) payment model to reduce reimbursement levels for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Following Vital Transformation's research on investment success factors for biotech companies released at the European Health Forum Gastein, Vital Transformation presented original research modelling the potential impact both short and long term for patients, payers, and industry for such proposals, and show how the IPI can impact access and innovation broadly. As well, the panellists placed the IPI into the context of other models currently being investigated internationally such as value based payments, managed entry agreements, and adaptive pathways.
Barriers to CAR T use in the spotlight at first European meeting
Publish date: February 28, 2019 By Sharon Worcester The high cost of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy largely limits its use to the sickest patients and prohibits experimentation in “less-diseased” populations, outcomes data suggest.
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