Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing

Using Regional Governing Boards to Align Services for Rural Children of the Opioid Crisis

Children affected by the opioid epidemic need a complex array of services and supports to safeguard their health and wellbeing, including child protective services, legal representation, educational services, comprehensive physical and mental health care, and often foster care placement coupled with family reunification strategies. Timely access to these services is especially difficult in rural areas.

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Valuing Future Alzheimer’s Disease Medicines: Extending the Traditional Paradigm

Traditional value assessment frameworks that focus solely on a narrowly defined cost effectiveness perspective do not adequately reflect the broader value of innovation.  The potential introduction of new medicines to treat Alzheimer’s Disease challenges existing frameworks. Increasingly, discussion is focusing on extending the paradigm to capture broader elements of value (e.g.

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ONE HEALTH PERSPECTIVES ON HEOR

One Health recognizes the existential interconnectedness of humans, animals and their shared environment. It is key to ensuring the healthy and sustainable future of the planet and the people, flora and fauna that live on it. One Health encompasses topics such as inter-species transmission of infectious agents (zoonoses), antimicrobial resistance, economics of One Health programs, and One Health in sustainable food systems.

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Methods Maze: Pointers for Selecting Survival Extrapolation Models for Cancer Immunotherapy

Determining reliable estimates of the survival gain offered by new therapies compared to standard of care is a critical component in establishing their incremental cost-effectiveness. Inaccurate results will lead to inappropriate estimates of lifetime health benefit and ultimately sub-optimal healthcare decision-making. New technologies with different mechanisms of action can have distinct and complex patterns of survival bringing new challenges for the assessment of their long-term benefit.In this webinar, we will be discussing this issue in relation to cancer immunotherapy.

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Biosimilars: Unleashing The Potential For Improved Patient Access And Cost Savings In The United States

The webinar will present an overview of societal benefits of biosimilars, how these are measured, how the United States (US) and select markets are tracking in attaining these benefits, and potential solutions for advancing the evidence of potential benefits into action.  By way of societal benefits, biosimilars have been widely expected to improve patient access to life-saving biologics while reflecting in substantial cost savings.  A RAND report estimates US cost savings of over $50 billion in 10 years.  However, there is wide variability in the estimates as to how biosimilars may benefit

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Webinar: How to manage burnout and ensure quality care — Leading your workforce through COVID-19

COVID-19 has put unprecedented strain on the healthcare workforce, as it has demanded significant clinical resources and challenged staff wellbeing. This webinar will explore how health systems can efficiently manage staffing during the pandemic with a human-first approach, putting people at the forefront of decisions. This session will focus on recruitment and retention, managing employee burnout and the importance of workplace culture. Join this webinar to learn:

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Webinar: How COVID-19 has made provider and room scheduling a strategic imperative — and what health systems can do about it

Traditionally, healthcare organizations scheduled providers without visibility into exam room availability. However, when COVID-19 hit, health systems needed to quickly understand their capacity, including immediate visibility into available providers and rooms.Now, as clinic volumes approach pre-COVID levels, health systems are again forced to rethink capacity. Should we hire more providers? Acquire more space?

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SURE for Mental Health - The Fullness of the Mind (Mindfulness Session)

About this EventThe Fullness of the Mind: This 45-minute webinar introduces the concept of mindfulness followed by a 20-minute guided mindfulness session. The final 10 minutes will be dedicated to questions and answers.Instructions to join Zoom webinar1. A link to join the webinar will be emailed, but alternatively you can visit Zoom.com and enter the Meeting ID (you will also receive this via email).2. Enter password (you will receive this via email).3. Upon joining the meeting, you will be put into a ‘waiting room’ until the trainer is ready to start.

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Hypertension Webinar

Pregnancy webinarAbout this EventHIYOS (Healthy In Your Own Skin) is an NHS GP practice in Hounslow, London. In response to the COVID19 pandemic our fab clinicians have put together a series of webinars on a variety of topics. These series of COVID19 mins webinars are designed to inform, educate and entertain our patients.This webinar is about hypertension, or raised blood pressure.

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