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The Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI) has launched

2016-09-29Jason ShafrinLeave a comment

I’m excited to announce that the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI) has just launched. I will be serving as the Director of Research. Below, I have reposted the IVI press release so you can lear more about the initiative. Precision Health Economics today launched the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI), a multi-stakeholder scientific initiative to…

How do we measure the value of and pay for biomedical innovation?

2016-09-15Jason ShafrinLeave a comment

Dana Goldman, Samuel Nussbaum, and Mark Linthicum have an interesting post on the Health Affairs blog about innovation, value measurement and pricing. The article mentions the new Innovation and Value Initiative, where I serve as the Director of Research. An excerpt is below. New pricing mechanisms are needed to effectively link prices to value; we…