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HEOR Fundamental Education Series

Essentials on Health Economics for Foundational Learning

Health Economics touches every decision in the pharmaceutical landscape

In today’s increasingly complex world, proving and demonstrating a product’s inherent worth has become a component of every go-to-market strategy. 

Ensuring more members of an organization, including those outside of the Health Economics and Outcomes role, understand the quintessential part health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) plays is also proving to be of value. This is why Xcenda Learning Solutions has created 5 unique primers on HEOR–The HEOR Fundamental Education Series.

These learning modules are designed for easy absorption and quick application in the field. Informed by Xcenda’s deep bench of clinical and market access subject matter experts, the HEOR Fundamentals Education Series is key to helping your organization achieve results and brand imperatives. 

The HEOR Fundamental Education Series is just one of the offerings Xcenda has created to assist manufacturers in evidence creation and strategy development. From comparative effectiveness studies and economic modeling to global market access strategy and value frameworks, Xcenda’s HEOR experts are dedicated to helping you analyze and assemble compelling value stories.

The HEOR Education Fundamentals Series

  • Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) and Network Meta-Analysis (NMA)
  • Observational Studies
  • Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs)
  • Fundamentals of Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR)
  • Economic Modeling

The HEOR Fundamentals Education Series demystifies the topics of:

Fundamentals of Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR)

Time to complete: 15 minutes

This module provides an overview of the discipline used to determine and capture the economic and clinical evidence necessary to prove a product’s inherent value and how this information is used by healthcare decision makers regarding formulary status and patient access.

Economic Modeling

Time to complete: 15 minutes

This module offers an overview of different types of economic models, their inputs, and the role economic models play in establishing a product’s overall value with healthcare decision makers.

Observational Studies

Time to complete: 15 minutes

This module details the type of studies researchers use to investigate and record the relationship between an intervention or exposure and an outcome, in the effort to support evidence-based medicine.

Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs)

Time to complete: 15 minutes

This module explains what are Patient-Reported Outcomes and their role in assessing whether clinicians are improving the health of patients.

Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) and Network Meta-Analysis (NMA)

Time to complete: 15 minutes

This module provides fundamentals of essential research methods, which examine the universe of published studies and results, in support of determining comparative effectiveness between therapies.

Master the basics with The HEOR Fundamental Education Series

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