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In this episode of the Vital Health Podcast, host Duane Schulthess sits down with Jenni Nordborg, Director of International Affairs at The Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry (LIF), to explore how national and European policies intersect to shape life sciences innovation. They discuss Sweden’s holistic governance model, the strategic framing of healthcare spending as an investment, and the challenges of aligning regional autonomy with EU‑wide regulatory frameworks.
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DIA Global 2018: Value Pricing Bootcamp: A Crash Course in How to Use Real World Evidence to Better Measure Outcomes and Evaluate New Innovative Therapies
24th June 2018, Boston, USA
Duane Schulthess, Managing Director of Vital Transformation, and Luca Pani, former Director General of the Italian Medicine's Agency and currently a Faculty Member at the University of Miami, will run a 3 hour and 15 minute Short Course outlining how best to harness RWE to better understand the price, value, and impact of next generation therapies.
Real world big data for clinical research and drug development
30th December, 2017
The objective of this paper is to identify the extent to which real world data (RWD) is being utilized, or could be utilized, at scale in drug development. Through screening peer-reviewed literature, we have cited specific examples where RWD can be used for biomarker discovery or validation, gaining a new understanding of a disease or disease associations, discovering new markers for patient stratification and targeted therapies, new markers for identifying persons with a disease, and pharmacovigilance.
Medicines Adaptive Pathways to Patients (MAPPs): A Story of International Collaboration Leading to Implementation
21st October, 2015
After nearly a decade of discussion, analysis, and development, the Medicines Adaptive Pathways to Patients (MAPPs) initiative is
beginning to see acceptance from regulators, industry, patients, and payers, with the first live pilot project initiated under the
guidance of the European Medicines Agency in 2014.
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Claims that the IRA wouldn’t affect innovation overlooked how early-stage investors really make decisions. Our research shows the pipeline for senior-focused therapies is already narrowing.
— VitalTransformation (@VitalTransform) April 18, 2025
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The IRA’s 9-year cap for small molecules and 13-year cap for biologics rerouted investment away from the pills seniors rely on. We sat down with @steveusdin1 to unpack how this shift skews R&D incentives and future therapies.
— VitalTransformation (@VitalTransform) April 27, 2025
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