One of the missions of ISPOR is to facilitate the interchange of scientific and practice knowledge in pharmacoeconomics and patient health outcomes. The items listed below will help you find other Web sites of potential interest. Let us know about other sites we should consider adding.
   Research/Consulting Services
Abacus International - Independent healthcare consultancy specialising in health outcomes, strategic planning and medical communications
Abt Bio-Pharma Solutions  - a research-based consulting company
  Aegisnet - the International Network for Health Care Research
  AHP Research - AHP Research specialises in patient (and proxy) reported outcome (PRO) assessment, incorporating the patient's perspective into the development, delivery and evaluation of new treatments, technologies and healthcare interventions. AHP Research offers a client-focused approach to deliver consultancy, research and training for a range of clients from both public and private healthcare sectors. In addition to commissioned work, AHP Research takes a proactive approach to health research, initiating and collaborating on projects in several specialist areas to remain at the forefront of healthcare research and development
Analysis Group/Economics - AnalysisGroup/Economics conducts cost of illness
and treatment impact STUDIES using data from Phase III and Phase IV clinical trials, administrative claims, epidemiological survey, and simulation models.
  Analytica International is an independent global provider of clinical and outcomes research, commercialization and communication services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
  Applied Health Outcomes - Premier provider of strategies and services that measure and communicate the value of pharmaceuticals and other healthcare technologies through expertise, commitment and integrity.
The Bayesian Initiative in Health Economics & Outcomes Research
  BioMedCom Consultants Inc. - Biomedical, health economic & health outcomes research application
  Boston Health Economics, Inc. - an independent research and consulting firm specializing in the economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and disease management programs
  Campbell Alliance - Management Consultants in Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare
  Caro Research - Proven Experience in Pharmacoeconomics, Epidemiology and Technology Assessment
CEMKA Health Economics & Epidemiology
  Centrum HTA - a consulting company involved in pharmacoeconomics
The Center for Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research at the University of North Carolina
  Chinese PharmacoEconomics Guidelines Project - Chinese Medical Doctor Association is the executive center of this project, and the center specializes in Chinese PharmacoEconomics Guidelines to improve the development of PharmacoEconomic assessment and clinical rational drug usage in China
Clinical Outcomes Research Group at The University of Georgia Medical College
Cornerstone Research Group Inc. - We are a research company, focused on maximizing the market success of our client’s products. We provide strategies and health economic research to identify, demonstrate and communicate product value.
Corporate Translations, Inc. -- A leading provider of translation and linguistic validation solutions, specializing in Quality of Life research instruments and clinical trail documents
Emory Center for Outcomes Research
Harvard School of Public Health
  Health Data Services Corporation - database selection and acquisition services from an independent agent working with top vendors of US and European data.  Services are free to researchers
Health Decision Strategies - for your health care decision software development needs
Health Promotion Research Inc. - specializes in conducting scientific research into human behaviour as it relates to population health
  Heron Evidence Development Limited
HOPE Research Centre at the University of Toronto
  InForMed GmbH - Outcomes Research & Health Economics
  Infusion Pharma Consulting LLC - Infusion’s Strategic Pricing and Public Policy practice supports the pharmaceutical and biotech industries in engineering, evidencing and capturing the value of key product assets
  Ingenix  - collaborates with our clients on the planning, execution, and interpretation of health care research including pharmacoeconomics, health services, and patient reported outcomes research.
Innovus Research Inc. We welcome you to visit the new i3 Innovus website to explore our full range of products and services in health economics and outcomes and market informatics
Institut de Recherche et d'Evaluation Médicale et Economique Faculté de Médecine Léonard de Vinci
  Institute for Medical Technology Assessment of the Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands - conducts fundamental and applied research into medical technology assessment (MTA)
Institute of Health Economics an Clinical Epidemiology of the University of Cologne
Institute of Health Economics
  The Institute of Health Economics - an international centre of excellence in health and pharmaceutical economics, outcomes, and policy research, based in Edmonton, Alberta. The work of the IHE in research and research methodologies, policy analyses, education and training, and knowledge transfer contributes to the efficient and effective use of health care resources. A not-for-profit organization, the IHE is distinguished by a university-government-industry partnership, and by the affiliation of 34 world-class research fellows.
Janssen-Cilag
JestaRx - providing solutions all the way from strategic planning, through advisory boards, market research, retrospective and prospective data analysis, and on to presentations, manuscripts, and posters.
Katalyst Health Technology Assessments - designs and conducts health outcomes analyses and develops custom software tools for sales and market access applications.

Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd – for Systematic Reviews, Health Technology Assessments, Guidelines, Training, Consultancy, Critical Appraisal Service

Mapi Research Institute (MRI) - is an international company with a special interest in advancing the worldwide use of patient-reported and clinical assessments through linguistic validation of PRO instruments for appropriate cross-cultural use and interpretation.
Mapi Values - specialist in health economic, quality of life and patient satisfaction studies.
  Matrix45 - Evidence-based healthcare - consulting and science ... serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and private/academic research sectors ... strategic, scientific, and analytical consulting with the services to support it ... Phase 4 and 5 in biopharma - and development in private/academic research ... at the interface of strategy, science, and change .... science for a purpose.
  McKesson - providing assistance to hospitals in the implementation of revenue cycle solutions to extend the capabilities of hospital information systems.
  Medical Decision Modeling Inc – a research and consulting firm specializing in the development of software-based cost effectiveness, budget impact, and disease state models for the healthcare industry.
Monteban Outcomes Research Consultancy – Specialised in Outcomes Research and Market Access services for all stages of product development.
Nordic Health Economic Research AB - Independent consultancy and research company specializing in economic evaluations and outcomes research in the Nordic countries.
Office of Health Policy and Clinical Outcomes (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia)
Oxford Outcomes - an international outcomes research agency specialising in Quality of Life (QoL) research
Outcomes Research  - medical research to guide clinical decisions
Ovation Research Group -  an independent health economics and outcomes research and consulting firm
  Pharmaccess - a consulting firm specialized in market access and
reimbursement of bio-pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program at The University of Washington Department of Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (University of Southern California)
Pharmacon International, Inc.
  Pharmacotherapy Outcomes Research Center - A research, education, and service organization that conducts and interprets studies to improve patient care through optimal drug therapy.
 
PharmAnalysis Group, Inc. -Reimbursement and Economic Strategies for the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry
PharMerit  - delivers state-of-the-art European pharmacoeconomic evaluations to international pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. Services offered include environmental scans, modelling studies, costing studies, care mapping and reimbursement support.
PHARMO Institute   - PHARMO is a scientific research organization dedicated to study the efficiency, safety and cost-effectiveness of drugs in daily practice
  Polaris Health Directions - develops automated outcomes systems
for a variety of healthcare environments, including mental health and
chemical dependency as well as the screening and monitoring of depression
and anxiety in primary care and other medical settings.
Policy Analysis Inc. - a contract-research and consulting group performing health-economic and quality-of-life evaluations for a variety of pharmaceutical and biotech companies
  RTI Health Solutions - provides a broad range of responsive, comprehensive services that can help you to assess the population impact and value of your product throughout its lifecycle.
  Therapeutic Management, Inc (TTM) -TTM provides medical chart review services to research organizations and pharmaceutical companies that conduct outcomes research.  Over the last 10 years, TTM has established itself as the premier chart review company, conducting over 250,000 medical chart reviews extracting valuable outcome data for research purposes or quality improvement.  TTM specializes in extracting data from manual or electronic charts in any location or format.
  United BioSource Corporation (former Medtap)
University of Bayreuth list of other health economic WEB sites
University of Arizona Center for Health Outcomes and Pharmacoeconomic Research (HOPE)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Division of Pharmaceutical Policy & Evaluation
University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston Outcomes Research
University of York Health Economics for Health Care Professionals
The Weinberg Group, Inc.
TreeAge Software - Decison Analysis, Decision Trees. Our powerful decision tree / decision analysis software helps you:
 
  • Model problems as decision trees, Markov models or influence diagrams.
  • Analyze decision based models & make better decisions using expected value calculations, cost-effectiveness analysis, probabilistic sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo simulation.
  • Communicate results interactively, including recommended strategy, cost-effective options, underlying analysis, best decisions and supporting assumptions.
  Xcenda (former Applied Health Outcomes) - The mission of Xcenda is to provide customized solutions and innovative approaches that discover and communicate the value of pharmaceuticals and other healthcare technologies

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    Not for Profit Organizations
AcademyHealth
The Canadian Association for Population Therapeutics
"College des Economistes de la Sante" (French Health Economists Association)
Doctors for Chile
ESCP-The European Society of Clinical Pharmacy
Harvard School of Public Health
Health Economics Association of Spain
Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) - ICER is an academic technology assessment initiative based at Massachusetts General Hospital and affiliated with Harvard Medical School.  Informed by priorities of payers, clinicians, and patients, and based at arms’ length from coverage decision-making structures in government and the private sector, ICER links clinical effectiveness and comparative value together in a rating system that is consistent and rigorous, yet flexible enough to be directly useful to multiple decision makers.
Institut Belge de l'economie de la Sante asbl
International Society for Quality of Life Research
Mapi Research Trust - is a non-profit organization advancing the art and the use of scientific approaches to Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) measures. Its aim is to exchange health outcomes information and experiences among all people involved in PROs. It also encourages the development and implementation of collaborative research by collecting, analyzing and distributing Patient-Reported instruments and organizing educational programs in the field.
Pharmacoethics  - dedicated to the exploration of ethical issues related to the development, promotion, sales, prescription, and use of pharmaceuticals
REES France (Réseau d'Evaluation en Economie de la Santé) - is a French consulting firm specialized in the evaluation of new health care technologies, design of epidemiological researches, data collection using Internet and the development of specific quality of life scale. Biostatistical, economics and computer science skills are mobilized within mathematical models to predict consequences of new drugs or health care practices.
Society for Medical Decision Making

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    Internet Services
AHP Research – This resource page contains useful information on research methods, reviews of outcomes research books, important links, newsletters and more.
BioAsTec - online information regarding the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries
EudraNet - Network services for the EU Pharmaceutical Regulatory Sector
  HealthEconomics.com Health Economics, Medical and Pharmacy Resources by Category
The Guide to Health Economics, Medical and Pharmacy Resources
Health Decision Strategies - for your health care decision software development needs
Medscape - online health record, news and information resource
Mioti – Mioti - Medical Information on the Internet

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    Journals/Publications
Clinical Therapeutics, Pharmaceutical Economics & Health Policy -- The International Peer-Reviewed Journal of Drug Therapy
  Health Affairs - The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere
  Health Economics
PharmacoEconomics (Journal)
  Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
PRO Newsletter, The - is a newsletter assembling research papers on applied methods and on the translation methodology of PRO instruments for multicultural use as well as any other news and information on PRO - since end of 2007 available online.

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    NGO – Government-Quasi-Government Services
Canadian Coordinating Office of Health Technology Assessment
Cochrane Collaboration Home Page
EUCOMED - represents the Medical Technologies Industry in Europe
The United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
GPO Gate - the University of California's gateway to federal information
Health Economics at the World Health Organization (WHO)
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The United States Department of Health and Human Services
The United States National Library of Medicine
World Bank

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   Database Services
  Health Data Services Corporation – database selection and acquisition services from an independent agent working with top vendors of US and European data.  Services are free to researchers
Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED)
Protocare Sciences

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   Academic Institution
  Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) - ICER is an academic technology assessment initiative based at Massachusetts General Hospital and affiliated with Harvard Medical School.  Informed by priorities of payers, clinicians, and patients, and based at arms’ length from coverage decision-making structures in government and the private sector, ICER links clinical effectiveness and comparative value together in a rating system that is consistent and rigorous, yet flexible enough to be directly useful to multiple decision makers.
  University of Illinois at Chicago - Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research
University of Maryland Graduate Program in Pharmacy Administration
University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy
University of Utah Department of Pharmacotherapy
The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania
West Virginia University Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy

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