HealthCore - Finding evidence and truth at the core of healthcare.

Collaborations

Your research challenges often require a multidisciplinary solution. Our team brings a range of expertise and collaborations between industries and stakeholders to deliver the services you require. Through these collaborations, we are prepared to help you fill gaps in evidence to improve healthcare quality and outcomes.

WHAT WE DO

Clinical Research

Clinical research requires collaboration, commitment to rigor, and confidence in the data—and always putting patients first. It also requires well-coordinated, innovative thinking to drive a clinical trial to success. It’s what we do.

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Health Economics & Outcomes Research

Generating evidence of the real-world value of healthcare products is necessary to translate value into actionable information. Our team possesses a deep understanding of the healthcare landscape and data necessary to equip you with insights you need.

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Patient-Centered Research

Real-world evidence and real-world impact call for the first-hand perspectives of people. We bring the patient voice to the table as the most important stakeholder in any and every agreement.

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OUR RESEARCH POSITION

Sometimes you can’t go it alone. Whether you need multi-institutional teams, consensus panels, or academic partnerships, we can bring together a broad range of expertise to create better evidence. Our longstanding relationships are built on a commitment to providing the right team with the right expertise. Through collaborations we aim to form the strongest team possible to solve complex healthcare challenges.

Highlights

Relationships

Because of our multidisciplinary expertise, we can build the team you need to solve complex problems.

Expertise

We collaborate across the healthcare ecosystem and understand how stakeholders interact with each other to deliver healthcare.

Unparalleled Data

Access to a range of data both internally and through collaborations means we make challenging questions easier to answer.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Collaborations

What is Real-World Evidence and Why is It Important?

Real-world data and real-world evidence are more than just buzzwords. They’re becoming increasingly important for informing healthcare decisions across a number of settings and stakeholders.

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The Value of Dental and Medical Benefit Integration

Research has shown that people with good oral health generally have better overall health. This white paper outlines Anthem activities designed to improve oral health, and the impact these activities can have on overall health and costs.

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The Value of Pharmacy and Medical Benefit Integration

As health care costs continue to rise, employers and payers are under increasing cost pressure to optimally manage their members’ care. This White Paper explores the impact of integrated Anthem medical and pharmacy benefits on medical costs.

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Thought Leadership

What is Real-World Evidence and Why is It Important?

Real-world data and real-world evidence are more than just buzzwords. They’re becoming increasingly important for informing healthcare decisions across a number of settings and stakeholders.

Collaborations

The Value of Dental and Medical Benefit Integration

Collaborations

The Value of Pharmacy and Medical Benefit Integration

Collaborations

Study Demonstrates How Reducing Consumer Out-of-Pocket Costs for Primary Care Improves the Consumer Experience

To better understand the potential health and financial benefits of VBID models for consumers, we evaluated the impact of a large employer’s decision to remove employee and dependents’ out-of-pocket costs for primary care physician (PCP) visits.

What We Do for Collaborations Patient-Centered Research for Collaborations

Real-world evidence and real-world impact call for the first-hand perspectives of people. We bring the patient voice to the table as the most important stakeholder in any and every agreement.

HealthCore utilizes a unique mix of expertise, data, and relationships in the design and conduct of patient-centered research for the purpose of improving patient health and outcomes. Together with others, we’re building a clearer view and better understanding of the individual’s healthcare experience.

Working Across Industries

Our multidisciplinary teams have a long history of working with a variety of stakeholders such as life sciences companies, government agencies, academia, medical institutions, foundations, advocacy groups, and other contract research organizations. We are well versed in multi-stakeholder collaborations.

Working Across Applications

Our research scientists can contribute to specific needs across the project spectrum – from design through dissemination. We have expertise in identifying and outreaching to patients as well as obtaining the regulatory permissions necessary for doing so.

CAPABILITIES

Qualitative PCR Studies

Informing meaningful research solutions with rich, in-depth insights. Our extensive experience with qualitative methodologies allows individuals to explain their experiences and perceptions in their own words, generating first-hand insight. Our expertise includes designing and conducting interviews, focus groups, cognitive debriefing, and patient/diary journal. The hands-on approach HealthCore applies towards meeting study objectives may include ethnographic field work, PROM development and validation, and resource and product evaluation and development.

Quantitative PCR Studies

Collecting and analyzing numeric data for statistical analysis. We utilize direct-to-patient methodologies including survey-based research, hypothesis testing, and panel studies paired with the latest technologies including embedded video content, smart-phone apps, wearables, and other data and device-related integrations.

Mixed Method Studies

Conducting hybrid studies and combining patient-centered with non-patient centered research designs. Through these designs, we often increase efficiency – from first patient in to milestone results, decrease burden on providers and/or patients, or reduce overall cost of data collection. We use our expertise to combine any number of methodologies to generate more comprehensive and multidimensional insights and answers to complex research questions.

Panel Studies

Conducting longitudinal surveys measuring consumer opinions, feelings, or thoughts over time. We choose target audiences in panel surveys for study and gather data points repeatedly at different points during the study.

Direct-to-Patient Studies

Leveraging the HealthCore data ecosystem and longstanding collaborations to identify cohorts of interest and enrolling them in research projects with or without the interaction of a site. Utilizing the robust data found in the HealthCore database, we can target patients based on characteristics such as medication use, procedure history, and other factors, and directly recruit into multiple research design studies using in-house contact information via mail, phone, and e-mail.

PROM Development and Validation

Using our expertise and clinical collaborations in adherence with the FDA Guidelines for development and validation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM). We complete rigorous PROM development – from conceptual framework to item generation, item reduction, scale formation, and clinical validation using traditional psychometric methods.

Survey-Based Research

Delivering actionable evidence to better guide current disease management and assist in the development of new therapeutic or biomedical technologies. We provide access to a level of patient and clinician-reported information not found in other large-scale sources of health data including medical and pharmacy claims, paper-based and electronic medical records, and disease registries.

FEATURED THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

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Survey Research: Elements of a “Good” Survey

Survey research is a critical component of patient-centered research involving gathering information systematically from individuals by asking them questions about a specific topic or topics and generalizing the results to a larger population.

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OTHER COLLABORATION SERVICES

Clinical Research