India is in the middle of health transformation. Although infectious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, dengue, H1N1 pandemic influenza and antimicrobial resistance continue to pose health and economic burden, the country is also facing challenges with chronic non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer; which are the leading cause of mortality. Social and economic determinants […]
The discipline of ‘health economics’ has significantly progressed to become more inclusive, beginning with only cost-benefit analyses of public health programs, such as vaccinations, to evolving into a large area of health technology assessments (HTA). Cost-effectiveness analyses are a routine practice in HTA and are performed virtually for every new health technology. Healthcare industry as […]
Network meta-analysis (NMA) is a type of meta-analysis that adds an additional variable to a meta-analysis, and instead of a simple summation of trials that have evaluated the same treatment, several different treatments are compared by statistical inference.1 NMA is also referred to as mixed treatments comparison or multiple treatments comparison meta-analysis.2,3,4 It was recognised […]
There are humungous quantities of data existing in healthcare; data from all kinds of sources, such as clinical, patient, payer, R&D, pharmacy as well as revolutionary technologies that are being quickly embraced, for e.g. data from wearable devices. According to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), (1) the volume of healthcare data which was observed […]
Traditionally, systematic reviews are considered as the gold standard to inform clinical practice and policy decisions. However, systematic reviews are resource and time intensive. The time factor has been identified as a barrier to implementing results from evidence synthesis, as a result of an incongruence between the time required to produce a full systematic review […]
Heath Technology Assessment (HTA) is a scientific research area that makes informed clinical as well as policy decisions on the use of health technologies, which include pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, procedures and other clinical, public health and organizational interventions. (1) Recently, ‘early HTA’ is progressively being promoted as a perspective to determine added value of […]
The concept of “Big Data” is #trending today, which is characterized by types of data sources with huge quantities, high speed and broad diversity of information. Healthcare industries are trying to apply Big Data analytics to reform data into a workable platform in order to generate information that would help making better and faster clinical […]
In recent years, patient-centric initiatives are becoming key factors among healthcare companies, as they are increasingly becoming aware of the fact that the key to growing business and improving customer health is to better focus on the needs and concerns of the patient, rather than attending to just the product approval. The objective behind patient-centric drug […]
The healthcare industry is challenged with administrative and regulatory intricacies that make achieving the healthcare objectives, such as better patient outcomes and reduced costs, difficult. Difficulties faced while improving patient outcomes are predominantly taxing, since health systems measure and report thousands of outcomes annually. (1) In addition, healthcare industry is saturated with the need for improved quality […]
