The positive impacts of Real-World Data on the challenges facing the evolution of biopharma.

The positive impacts of Real-World Data on the challenges facing the evolution of biopharma.
Drug Discov Today. 2018 Jan 11;:
Authors: Wise J, Möller A, Christie D, Kalra D, Brodsky E, Georgieva E, Jones G, Smith I, Greiffenberg L, McCarthy M, Arend M, Luttringer O, Kloss S, Arlington S
Abstract
Demand for healthcare services is unprecedented. Society is struggling to afford the cost. Pricing of biopharmaceutical products is under scrutiny, especially by payers and Health Technology Assessment agencies. As we discuss here, rapidly advancing technologies, such Real-World Data (RWD), are being utilized to increase understanding of disease. RWD, when captured and analyzed, produces the Real-World Evidence (RWE) that underpins the economic case for innovative medicines. Furthermore, RWD can inform the understanding of disease, help identify new therapeutic intervention points, and improve the efficiency of research and development (R&D), especially clinical trials. Pursuing precompetitive collaborations to define shared requirements for the use of RWD would equip service-providers with the specifications needed to implement cloud-based solutions for RWD acquisition, management and analysis. Only this approach would deliver cost-effective solutions to an industry-wide problem.
PMID: 29337204 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Drug Discovery Today - January 11, 2018 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Wise J, Möller A, Christie D, Kalra D, Brodsky E, Georgieva E, Jones G, Smith I, Greiffenberg L, McCarthy M, Arend M, Luttringer O, Kloss S, Arlington S Tags: Drug Discov Today Source Type: research