In a new guest column appearing in the latest edition of Clinical Leader, Precision for Value’s Jeremy Schafer argues for the inclusion of value measurements into oncology trials, outlining the potential end points as well as the significant rewards that can be gained after product launch due to the enhanced value proposition. (more…)

For the second year in a row, Precision Health Economics Senior Research Economist Jason Shafrin’s blog, “Healthcare Economist,” has been named by Intelligent Economist to their list of Top 100 Economics Blogs (worldwide). (more…)

Congratulations to Associate Health Economist Abhishek Sharma, part of Precision’s Evidence Strategy, Generation, and Communications team, for his acceptance into the World Heart Federation’s Emerging Leaders (EL) program. The program is part of a WHF initiative to reduce premature mortality from noncommunicable, chronic diseases by 25% by 2025. (more…)

In the latest edition of Specialty Pharmacy News, Precision for Value’s Jeremy Schafer and Janet Serluco discuss their recent payer survey reflecting strong concerns over immunotherapy combination costs and usage. The authors suggest that building payer engagement with the provider community is one key to managing combination treatments.

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At the Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit 2017, Precision for Value’s Jorge Font spoke about his presentation with Marie Rosenthal from Specialty Pharmacy Continuum on the significant impact big employers are having in revising the approaches to specialty pharmacy benefit administration and pricing. Font shared his perspective that the real payers are, in fact, employers.

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Precision for Value’s Jeremy Schafer talks with Managed Healthcare Executive about a recent Precision HCV survey, highlighting unmet needs cited by payers, and what can be done to encourage payers to ease coverage policies for the next wave of HCV drugs.

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Congratulations to Precision Health Economics, and in particular the Evidence Strategy, Generation, and Communication (ESGC) practice group, for their outstanding efforts in support of the development of new legislation and FDA guidelines allowing biopharmaceutical manufacturers to more proactively share clinical and economic information with population health decision-makers on emerging therapies.

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FiercePharma interviews precisioneffect’s Carolyn Morgan and Deborah Lotterman, showcasing the creative concepts behind Precision’s buzz-worthy Boston subway takeover ad campaign.

Congratulations to our CDM and EDC teams from Precision Oncology and Precision for Medicine for being recognized by Oracle with the Excellence in Industry Service–Americas Award for 2017! Oracle was pleased to recognize Precision as an industry-leading, niche CRO dedicated to oncology studies and precision medicine initiatives. Another great example of the integration synergy generated on an ongoing basis—with Precision Oncology providing Oracle with clinical data management and Precision for Medicine providing electronic data capture builds.