Health Affairs Forefront: Bringing Systems Thinking to Drug Value Assessment

Eric NormanNews

Drug value assessments generally fail to account for the complexities of health care systems and thus can misinform price negotiations and lead to overly restrictive access policies. Our [new article … Read More

Health Affairs Forefront: Bringing Systems Thinking to Drug Value Assessment

Eric NormanArticles

Drug value assessments generally fail to account for the complexities of health care systems and thus can misinform price negotiations and lead to overly restrictive access policies. Our [new article … Read More

Implementation Brief: Implementing an innovative contract

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

The contract is signed—now what? Next, stakeholders must prepare to implement the innovative contract. This brief offers a checklist of potential considerations for executing the agreement, including aligning stakeholders and … Read More

Implementation Brief: Designing an innovative contract

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

Once the decision has been made to move forward with an innovative contract for a specific medical treatment, the details of a contract must be designed. This brief offers a … Read More

Implementation Brief: Is innovative contracting right for you?

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

Innovative contracts can offer significant benefits for stakeholders delivering novel drugs and medical products to patients — but they require resources to design and implement. This Implementation Brief outlines key … Read More

Managing the challenges of paying for gene therapy: strategies for market action and policy reform in the United States

Eric NormanFoCUS, Publications

New open access policy analysis from Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) and NEWDIGS Initiative at Tufts Medical Center analyzes the challenges and potential policy options for paying for … Read More

Implementation Brief: Innovative contracting 101

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

This brief provides an introduction to innovative contracts, or value-based contracts, which may be used to facilitate access to innovative, high-cost treatments. These contracts can address uncertainty around treatments and … Read More

Mara Palm joins NEWDIGS

Eric NormanNews, People

We are pleased to announce that Marisha (Mara) Palm, MSC, PhD has joined our research team at the Center for Biomedical System Design. Mara has played a leadership role in our work … Read More

Implementation Brief: Access considerations for innovative treatments

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

This brief offers a checklist of key steps that different stakeholders should consider to ensure patients have access to innovative treatments. These therapies present unique challenges for different stakeholders and … Read More