Tag Archives: health economics

More States Follow Washington's Value-Based Lead

By Guest Blogger | Published: April 22, 2011
Cameron McClearn looks at how Washington State’s approach to health care value is beginning to influence the rest of the country. Many trends start on the West Coast and migrate to the rest of the nation. The Washington State health care system is worth watching as officials evaluate the economic value of medical treatments for state [...]
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NICE News or Bad News?

By William Looney | Published: November 3, 2010
Far from losing its mojo, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) will simply be sharing the stage with a range of new players under NHS reform — none of whom look supportive of the R&D industry. The big issue for industry in the UK this week is handicapping the future of its [...]
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Cancer Testing Times: One Thing the UK Will Not Be Cutting

By Julian Upton | Published: October 27, 2010
Buried among the savage, £83 billion-worth of cuts announced by the UK coalition government’s controversial Comprehensive Spending Review last week was confirmation that the Department of Health would not be taking forward the previous government’s pledge to introduce a one-week target for cancer testing. Under the Labour government, the time that it took for a patient [...]
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