Quarantines and ageism
The Covid pandemic has entailed a range of restrictions on our freedoms. It has led lawmakers to act in ill-liberal ways that go beyond what is… Read More »Quarantines and ageism
Decisions
Should the fox run the hen house?
Comment on: Drawing light from the pandemic: Rethinking strategies for health policy and beyond https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851021002918 My view is that the pandemic highlighted the failure of… Read More »Should the fox run the hen house?
The politics of market access
Market access is wrapped in the politics of health The attention politicians and stakeholders pay to healthcare and its challenges is a keen driver of… Read More »The politics of market access
Managerial control of medicines cost drivers
It is not unreasonable to have concerns about the cost of medicines. Drug costs are usually influenced by government policies on pricing and reimbursement of… Read More »Managerial control of medicines cost drivers
9 Tribes of the Internet and their health interests
Discussions on health literacy are increasing as healthcare providers, clinicians, payers and patients consider what this means for healthcare. Having been involved in launching the… Read More »9 Tribes of the Internet and their health interests
Positioning drugs in markets: how payers determine value
The relevance of value in establishing the positioning of medicines is the new normal for pharmaceutical marketing. Pharmaceutical companies have customers who are highly constrained… Read More »Positioning drugs in markets: how payers determine value
A model for mapping machine learning onto human decision making
The AI agenda is for me all about augmenting human reasoning; what I call cognology (cognitive focus) to distinguish from technology (physical focus). This is… Read More »A model for mapping machine learning onto human decision making