Author: Avalon Health Economics LLC

Focusing only on cases and deaths hides the pandemic’s lasting health burden on people, societies and economies. The COVID-19 pandemic is well into its second year, but countries are only beginning to grapple with the lasting health crisis.

Economic evaluation of passive monitoring technology for seniors 2019 By John E. Schneider,  Jacie Cooper. Cara Scheibling, and Anjani Parikh Abstract: By 2050, the global population of persons over the age of 60 is expected to be between 1.5 and 2 billion [1, 2]. Moreover, the proportion of individuals over the age of 80 is simultaneously and...

    Avalon Health Economics has entered into a collaborative agreement with Oberender, a leading global healthcare management consultancy based in Germany.  The agreement allows Avalon and Oberender to collaborate in a variety of ways, offering Avalon’s U.S. clients access to European market access, technology assessment, and management consulting, and offering Oberender added reach into...

  This blog is written by  John Schneider, PhD, Sabrina Chmelir, Jacie Cooper, and Shawn Davies, MA Advances in technological innovation and access to capital have recently resulted in a wave of new medical devices, including more accurate diagnostic tools, remote monitoring systems, and automated surgical tools.  This next generation of medical devices has the...

This research summary is written by John E. Schneider, PhD & Cara M. Scheibling   A two-decade drumbeat of bold, future-focused and entirely bi-partisan changes in U.S. state laws has ushered in the modern practice of optometry.  The result has been a dramatic expansion of the profession’s independent physician role in health care coupled with...

This blog was written by John Schneider, PhD, Katherine Dick, Cara Scheibling Recently, the crypto-currency company Bitcoin has been in the news, mainly for its combination of volatility in valuation coupled with its impenetrable technological foundation.  The virtual currency is perhaps the most well-known application of a technology now commonly referred to as “blockchain.”[1] Each...

  Andrew Briggs, DPhil Chair of Health Economics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow UK. Senior Scientist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. Director and Principal, Avalon Health Economics, Morristown, NJ, USA.   This blog was created from a presentation given at the ISPOR Annual Meeting in New Orleans, May 21st, 2019 as part...