Exhibiting Organizations

The following organizations are exhibiting their products and services
at our Fourth Annual European Conference:

Abt Associates Clinical Trials (AACT)
Adis International
AEGISNET, The European Network for Healthcare Research
CATALYST Health Economics Consultants Ltd.
Clinical Therapeutics®
Dymaxium Inc.
Heron Evidence Development Ltd
Innovus Research Inc.
Institute of Empirical Health Economics
IHE The Swedish Institute for Health Economics
IMS Health
Kendle International
Mapi Values
MEDTAP International, Inc
MERG
Ovation Research Group
PharMerit
RTI Health Solutions
The Lewin Group
TreeAge Software, Inc.



HERQuLES™
Health Economic Research and Quality of Life Evaluation Services

AACT's HERQuLES is a leader in collecting and analyzing data on the use of health care products and services and on their clinical, economic, quality of life and satisfaction outcomes. Our approach — widely respected for its integrity — has helped a broad array of organizations to demonstrate the value of their products in a very competitive global marketplace. To assist our clients in optimizing the market success of their products, our experienced team offers these services:
  • Retrospective Analysis and Economic Modeling
  • Quality of Life Assessment and Tool Development
  • Patient Registries and Other Prospective Studies
  • Strategy / Pricing Support and Complementary Services
  • Managed Care Dossier Preparation
For more information, please contact:
Chris L. Pashos, Ph.D.
Vice President and Executive Director of HERQuLES
Bethesda, MD and Cambridge, MA
Voice: 1 617 520 2935
Fax: 1 617 868 2221
E-mail: chris_pashos@abtassoc.com

 





aegisnet is an innovative integrated network comprising members based in seven European countries. The network members provide consultancy services in health economics, outcomes research, pricing, reimbursement and market access and offer all these services to the medical technology industry.

aegisnet members are highly skilled and experienced consulting companies. They have established reputations and local, in-depth knowledge of their country's market access regulations and requirements. The unique network ensures projects have local relevance within a global project strategy. aegisnet takes pride in the high quality, value-added service which the members work together to achieve, and also recognizes the importance of an efficient service with appropriate client liaison.

For further information please contact any of the aegisnet members:

Location Member Company Telephone number Email address
Belgium Health Economics & Disease Management +32 (2) 2708881 info@hedm.be
France Annie Chicoye Economics +33 (0) 1 55 62 13 13 ace@ace-health.com
Germany Alpha Care +49 5141 6096 info@alphacare.de
Italy pbe consulting +39 045 8008609 info@pbe.it
Spain Health Outcomes Research Europe +34 93 209 32 57 info@hor-europe.com
Sweden The Swedish Institute for Health Economics* +46 46 32 91 00 info@ihe.se
United Kingdom Fourth Hurdle Consulting Ltd. +44 (0) 20 7440 4060 info@FourthHurdle.com
*Associate Member



CATALYST is an international health outcomes research consultancy. Our services include:

  • Conducting pharmacoeconomic trials
  • Economic evaluations
  • Decision modelling
  • Quality of life studies
  • NICE submissions in the UK
  • PBAC submissions in Australia
  • Training programmes for health economics
  • Dissemination of economic data

For further information about CATALYST, please visit our stand at the ISPOR Conference, or our web site at www.catalyst-health.co.uk, or contact Dr Julian Guest, Director, 34b High Street, Northwood, Middlesex, HA6 1BN, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1923 450045; Fax: +44 (0)1923 450046; E-mail: catalyst@dial.pipex.com



Clinical Therapeutics®

Clinical Therapeutics®, now in its 23rd year, offers rapid, peer-reviewed publication of clinical studies, review articles, and pharmacoeconomics/outcomes research. Manuscripts are usually published within 6 to 8 weeks of acceptance and in-depth peer review usually requires 3-4 weeks.

For the past 8 years, CT's specialty section, Pharmaceutical Economics & Health Policy, has focused on the publication of economic/health outcomes/QOL research, policy/contemporary issues, as well as review articles, brief reports & commentaries.

Clinical Therapeutics® is indexed by more than 30 of the world's leading databases, including MEDLINE/Index Medicus, EMBASE, Current Contents, and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts. (Latest JCR Impact Factor = 2.069)

Clinical Therapeutics® is published by Excerpta Medica U.S., whose parent organization, Elsevier Science, is the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific journals with more than 1400 titles such as The Lancet, The American Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and FDC Reports ("The Pink Sheets").

Contact: Stan Heimberger, MBA, PhD, Publisher
sheimber@exmedica.comwww.ClinicalTherapeutics.com
tel: 908-281-3625 • fax: 908-874-3250





Web address: www.herongroup.co.uk
Tel:
+44 (0) 1438 220-001
Fax:
+44 (0) 1438 220-004
E-mail:
enquiries@herongroup.co.uk

Creating headroom for our clients' products

Everyone in the Heron Group is working to create the most respected and recognised supplier of health economics services in the world.

The staff of the Heron Group have created a real collegiate culture. They understand what makes a good consultant and are dedicated to ensure projects are delivered to quality, time and budget constraints.

The group is structured in three companies, each offering an important service in the challenge to continue to develop and implement value for money evidence to health care decision makers. Heron Health Reviews Ltd ['Heron HR'] is a global organisation that offers systematic evidence reviews conducted by leading experts in the field. Heron Evidence Development Ltd ['Heron ED'] is a European organisation that can deliver robust health economics analyses, manuscripts and models that can withstand the rigour of peer review and can genuinely influence policy. Heron Market Access Ltd ['Heron MA'] is a UK based organisation that can supply NHS Relationship Manager contract teams to support market access strategies at a local level.


Institute of Empirical Health Economics
Am Ziegelfeld 28
D-51399 Burscheid, Germany
Telephone: +49-(0)2174/7151-0
Telefax: +49-(0)2174/7151-98
E-mail: instfeg@t-online.de
Internet: http://www.instfeg.de

The Institute of Empirical Health Economics provides analytical services to health care authorities, to international pharmaceutical companies, to sickness funds and health care insurers and to clinical research programmes.

Our services are:

  • Studies and evaluations in hospitals and the GP area
  • Decision-tree-analyses and Markov models
  • Outcomes research studies
  • Consultancy for cost reduction
  • SOP's
  • Benchmarking
  • Reimbursement strategies
  • Moderation and joint meetings with health care providers and payers


International Health Economics and Outcomes Research Services

INNOVUS is a leading international research organization, specializing in health economics and quality-of-life research.  Since 1984, we have emerged as one of the preeminent organizations by providing high-quality, methodologically-superior research to global pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies.

Our highly-trained, dedicated specialists include internationally-renowned experts Drs. Michael Drummond, Stuart MacLeod, George Torrance and Milton Weinstein.  Together with our skilled research teams in Europe and North America, we’ve created an unparalleled, service-oriented and client-focused team.  

With offices in Toronto, Boston and London, INNOVUS’ international presence guarantees that we are well-equipped to meet today’s challenging research needs and provides an excellent base for coordinating multinational programs.

INNOVUS expertise includes: Research services:
  • Multi-country economic analyses
  • Decision analytic modeling
  • Prospective stand-alone pragmatic trials
  • Integration of economic endpoints into randomized clinical trials
  • Development and validation of health-related quality of life instruments
  • Burden of illness studies
  • Economic modeling studies
  • Database analyses
  • Health-related quality of life research
  • Strategic planning
  • Research transfer and communication strategies
  • Market access and reimbursement support
Contact
Jeremy Chancellor, Europe

jchancellor@innovus.com

+44(0) 1494 582073
David Thompson, USA dthompson@innovus.com  ( 781) 338-9700
Daniel Grima, Canada dgrima@innovus.com    (905) 331-9911


The Swedish Institute for Health Economics has been operating since 1979 and is a fully owned subsidiary of the Apoteket AB (National Corporation of Swedish Pharmacies).

The staff is composed of 12 trained economists, several of them with postgraduate qualifications. In addition three staff members are engaged in administrative and library work.

Most IHE projects are funded directly by stakeholders in the health care, both private and public.

The applied research and commissioned reports undertaken by IHE is based on knowledge drawn from the cutting edge of international research.

Main services:

  • Economic Evaluation
  • Modelling studies
  • Cost of Illness and Cost of Treatment studies
  • Reimbursement schemes, deregulation, parallel trade
  • Health Care reforms in Sweden
  • Training and seminars

For more information, please contact:
Ulf Persson, Research Director
IHE, The Swedish Institute for Health Economics
P.O. Box 2127, SE-220 02 LUND
Tel: +46 46 32 91 00
or visit our website: www.ihe.se



   

Kendle International Inc. is a premier provider of quality clinical development services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio and offices strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Kendle’s Health Economics & Outcomes Research department supports customers in obtaining health economic and health-related quality of life outcomes for medications, medical devices and medical procedures through well-designed studies in all phases of treatment development, launch and marketing. Our services include scientific consulting as well as planning, realizing and evaluating health economic and quality of life studies. Furthermore, we develop and conduct computer modellings and integrate pharmacoeconomic components into clinical trials.

 Kendle A Clinical Development Organization
Corporate headquarters:
1200 Carew Tower
441 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
 
Web site:
www.kendle.com 

Contact person at Kendle Munich, Stefan-George-Ring 6, 81929 Munich:
Andrea Spannheimer, Director Health Economics & Outcomes Research Europe:
phone: +49 / 89 / 99 39 13 129
fax: +49 / 89 / 99 39 13 418
email: spannheimer.andrea@kendle.com

 




The Adelphi Group provides leading-edge expertise in strategic marketing, market insight and understanding, outcomes research and message-driven communications. Adelphi¹s products include the Disease Specific Programmes, an unrivalled source of European and US disease-specific information to support study design and model assumptions.

As part of Adelphi, Mapi Values works to deliver health and economic outcomes services to a wide range of clients including most of the major pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

Our team brings a wide range of experience, knowledge and expertise in health economics, patient satisfaction, health-related quality of life, marketing research, digital-media communication solutions and project management to our clients and their projects. With offices in the UK, France, Belgium and the USA, we are able to conduct truly international projects. The Adelphi Group takes a holistic view in supporting the development of your product and has the insight to ensure that our Outcomes Research projects provide the scientific evidence to support your marketing messages in a seamless, effective and pragmatic manner.

For further information, please contact:
Mapi Values UK: +44 1625 576815
Mapi Values France: +33 4 72 13 66 98
Mapi Values USA +1 617 720 0001
Adelphi Group: +44 1625 577233

Offices in: London, Manchester, New York, Boston, Lyon, Paris & Brussels
mapi.values@adelphi.co.uk
mvalues@mapi.fr
info@mapivaluesusa.com
reception@adelphi.co.uk



MEDTAP International, Inc.



Medical Economics Research Group

The Medical Economics Research Group is an independent research and consulting organisation that specialises in health economics, outcomes research, health systems analysis, epidemiology and clinical research. Since 1994, MERG has been a key provider of consulting services to German and international pharmaceutical companies. Our strong, customer-oriented technical team possesses interdisciplinary know-how and expert knowledge. Alliances with university medical centres and renowned medical opinion leaders assure a high standard of scientific work and quality of results. The Group has links with a network of leading health economists and researchers across both Europe and the USA.

Range of Services

  • Strategic consulting
  • Economic-evaluation studies
  • Decision analytic modeling
  • Outcomes research studies
  • Clinical trials
  • PMS trials
  • Data management (e-trials, paper-based trials)
  • Medical writing
  • Literature research and analysis
  • Training workshops and seminars

MERG • Paul-Gerhardt-Allee 42 • 81245 München Germany
Phone: ++49-89-457912-0 • Fax: ++49-89-457912-34 • e-mail: merg.munich@T-online.de



Ovation Research Group has been providing health economics and outcomes research and consulting services to the pharmaceutical industry for over ten years. Ovation combines pioneering experience in health economics with unique insights into achieving cost-effectiveness in various healthcare settings. Our experience in designing and implementing outcomes research includes:

Range of Services

  • Product and disease registries
  • Decision analysis modeling
  • Quality-of-life studies
  • Economic analyses
  • Prospective naturalistic studies (Phase IIIB/IV)
  • Database analyses

ovation research group
Highland Park, Illinois
info@ovation.orgwww.ovation.org


Bringing drugs that matter within reach of the patient

Global Services in:

  • pharmacoeconomic research
  • technology assessments
  • quality-of-life assessments
  • reimbursement and communication
  • market research
  • pharmaco-epidemiological modeling
  • project coordination
access to the wide network of academic experts
 
PharMerit
Hollands Diep 69
2904 EP Capelle a/d IJssel
The Netherlands
www.PharMerit.com
Itergau@PharMerit.com
phone +31 (0)10 4519924
fax +31 (0)10 4421158




  

 When you choose to work with The Lewin Group, you are choosing the very best company in its field.  The Lewin Group, a service group of Quintiles Transnational, was established in 1970 to aid government, non-government and private organizations to improve healthcare delivery. The Lewin Group‘s staff, comprising of Ph.D.s and some of the most globally renowned international experts, work together as a team with the sole goal to allow newer and better treatments to get to patients faster.  We offer you an expertise that no other organisation can give you.  Our research will allow your customers to more rapidly use your treatments and bring better care to their patients.

 

 

For further information please contact:

Dr Lisa Kennedy (Lisa.Kennedy@Quintiles.com)

Or call:
The Lewin Group
UK
+44 1784 497 821
The Lewin Group
Holland
+31 23 567 0989

 

 



We produce powerful, but extraordinarily user-friendly, software for building and analyzing decision trees and Markov models. In Cannes, we will be demonstrating the two latest versions, released in August:

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