Anthem Inc. is committed to supporting policy changes that help reduce, prevent and deter opioid use disorder, as well as those that help consumers better access treatment. As part of that commitment, its affiliated health plans just reached the company’s collective goal of reducing prescribed opioids filled at pharmacies by 30 percent during the past five years.
The good news … is that innovation is addressing diseases with high-unmet need such as oncology, autoimmune diseases, and central nervous system (CNS) disorders. But, there is a complicating factor in the economic story: the patient population benefiting from launch brands is becoming smaller.
CVS Health and Cleveland Clinic expanded their eight-year clinical affiliation to enhance access to care for patients throughout Northeast Ohio and Florida, and improve quality, coordinated delivery of care, and health outcomes for patients.
Modern pharmacies have lost the personal touch that ma and pa shops once had as they grapple with a growing patient volume. Pharmaceutical executives would be wise to abandon their struggling system and adopt an entrepreneurial mindset.
If “some” data helps life sciences firms develop insights to improve their businesses, having access to Big Data from multiple sources should lead to many more and much better insights. But more often than not, access to more data is having the opposite effect.
