During a visit to the French Ministry of Health, Emilie Sam explained to me the mechanisms for French investments in the innovation of new biomedical technologies. Many of the new life-saving products have a big impact on their budget for medicines in France. It will be interesting to wait and see at what rate this…
Before & After: Time Series Visualization
Often the fastest graph to generate is not the simplest way to communicate meaning. For an analysis of trends over time in pharmacoeconomic graduate student interests, take a look at this figure before and then after modifications to improve visualization of survey results. The first graph under-utilizes the ordering of years by assigning color categories…
Rising cost of HIV drugs
Digging through the Medicaid Prescription Drug Database, I want to find out if HIV drug prices are rising faster over time compared to other daily medications for chronic diseases. I stratified by the number of drugs in each combination tablet, and next I will need to adjust for inflation. Let me know if you think of…