Services
Strategic Planning
UBC provides strategic support throughout the product lifecycle. From early pre-launch planning to launch and post-marketing management, we help clients build support for their products with economic value messages. Our services include:
- Planning research portfolios to support economic value messages for multiple health care systems
- Quantifying the economic impact of disease
- Documenting utilization and costs of clinical practice
- Go/No-Go models to project product value and feasibility
- Maintaining current information on the regulatory and reimbursement requirements of European countries
- Planning research portfolios to support economic value messages for multiple health care systems
- Clinical trial planning.
Economic Studies
UBC scientists are experts in designing and implementing health economics studies in conjunction with clinical development programs. Our continuing efforts to meet the challenges faced by our clients has lead us to explore innovative solutions to research problems including bringing discrete event simulation (DES) to the health economics industry. Our services include:
- Study designs based on decision and simulation models
- Retrospective studies of primary care databases and registries
- Modeling: applying sophisticated modeling techniques such as Monte Carlo simulation, bootstrapping, Bayesian analysis, and analysis and advanced modeling methods such as Discrete Event Simulation (DES)
- Data collection: protocol preparation, form design, site personnel training, quality control, study monitoring, and implementation
- Analysis: cost-effectiveness, cost utility, budget impact, cost of illness, risk/benefit and meta-analyses
- Extension of findings: modeling to project trial to new scenarios
Prelaunch & Post-Marketing Product Support
UBC provides health economics expertise to support product launches. Our services include:
- Multi-country analysis: adapt findings to other countries
- Economic and value dossiers: formulary submission documents
- Effectiveness studies: documenting economic impact in "real world" settings
- Brand/generic switch decisions: utilization and sales impact projections
Message Communication & Training
UBC helps disseminate actionable information to key stakeholders, including health care professionals, regulatory authorities, payers, and consumers. Our services include:
- Development of conference abstracts and presentations
- Development of manuscripts for publication
- Development of submission documents to reimbursement authorities
- Define audience-appropriate methods to communicate findings to scientists, clinicians, decision-makers, and consumers
- Training to internal users regarding information or tools
- Training to internal users on health economics research in product development, principles and methods of health economics, and modeling techniques
- Training on pharmacoeconomics and advanced modeling techniques (DES)
- Development of interactive presentations
- Preperation of customized interfaces
