Making Real World Evidence Less 'Messy' To Help With Drug Pricing

The Medicines Company's inclisirin CV trial is 100-fold cheaper with digitized records, while Lilly is still hunting for a good HBA1C dataset, and Merck worries about "idiosyncratic" data.

FTI real world evidence Panel
Mark Nagy, Eli Lilly; Susan Shiff, Merck; Clive Meanwell, The Medicines Co. • Source: Photo by Brenda Sandburg

How does real world evidence fit into value-based pricing? A panel of pharmaceutical executives shed light on the issue during the FT Pharma Pricing and Value Summit held in New York Sept. 13.

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