The Affordable Care Act and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Trends and Perspectives

One major goal of the ACA is to provide better patient outcomes at lower costs. This is where Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) come into play. ACOs are one of the ACA’s voluntary initiatives to reduce medical costs by rewarding groups of HCPs and hospitals that band together to holistically treat Medicare patients in a coordinated fashion.

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Aurora Health Care

Aurora Health Care is proud to be a part of Advocate Aurora Health, the 10th largest not-for-profit, integrated health system in the United States and a leading employer in the Midwest with more than 70,000 employees, including more than 22,000 nurses and the region’s largest employed medical staff and home health organization. A national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care, Advocate Aurora serves nearly 3 million patients annually in Illinois and Wisconsin across more than 500 sites of care. Advocate Aurora is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, and is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology and pediatrics. The organization contributed nearly $2 billion in charitable care and services to its communities in 2016.

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Association for Accessible Medicines Drug Shortages

whitePaper | June 22, 2023

Generic medicines are the backbone of the U.S. prescription drug market, supplying more than 9 out of every 10 prescriptions. And the availability of generic medicines overall is remarkably stable even during challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Ultimate Guide to Pharmaceutical Quality Managemen

whitePaper | October 20, 2022

When the first Nokia and Motorola cell phones that were affordable and small enough to fit in your pocket hit the market, they not only changed how we viewed phone technology but how we communicated.

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The Never-Normal Future of Manufacturing

whitePaper | September 24, 2022

Let’s just say what we’re all thinking: 2020 was rough. It threw pretty much every element of our lives into disarray, and we suddenly had to become experts at navigating a new way of working, schooling and socializing.

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Non-Clinical Testing Considerations: Drugs vs Devices

whitePaper | November 8, 2022

While drugs and devices differ in their development, clinical trial phases and regulatory guidelines, the most important difference is that medical devices do not achieve their principal action by pharmacological means.

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Addressing Viral Pandemics Such as COVID-19 Using the Carterra® LSA

whitePaper | January 21, 2023

Emerging Diseases Require New Tools Medicines to treat and prevent infectious diseases cover a broad range of modalities from dosed therapeutics to vaccines. Biotherapeutics require a detailed knowledge of binding sites, or epitopes, on their respective antigens.

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Optimizing the Path from Pre-Clinical to Clinical Development

whitePaper | December 22, 2022

According to research, post-pandemic R&D growth is healthy in the pharma industry with the number of drugs in the R&D pipeline now exceeding 20,000 in 2022—which represents an expansion rate of 8.22% from 2021 (1).

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Aurora Health Care

Aurora Health Care is proud to be a part of Advocate Aurora Health, the 10th largest not-for-profit, integrated health system in the United States and a leading employer in the Midwest with more than 70,000 employees, including more than 22,000 nurses and the region’s largest employed medical staff and home health organization. A national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care, Advocate Aurora serves nearly 3 million patients annually in Illinois and Wisconsin across more than 500 sites of care. Advocate Aurora is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, and is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology and pediatrics. The organization contributed nearly $2 billion in charitable care and services to its communities in 2016.

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