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Vital Voices: Opportunities and Strategies for Patient Organizations to Engage CMS
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency that sets national standards for payers and value assessors. Through workshops and webinars, participants gain practical insights into CMS’s structure, key mandates, and patient resources, while learning strategies—such as coalition building, leveraging patient experience data, and navigating state policy—to elevate the patient voice in access and coverage decisions.
Approaches for Medtech Companies to Incorporate Patient Engagement Strategies
Patient engagement has been slower to evolve in the medtech space compared to the pharmaceutical sector, but more device, diagnostic, and digital health companies are beginning to meaningfully engage patients in R&D activities. To explore the opportunities for patient engagement along the total product lifecycle of medtech R&D, FasterCures’ hosted a virtual public convening delving into the value and return on investment of patient engagement in medical technology product development.
Related Reports
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Patient Engagement in Care Delivery: Approaches by Health-Care Providers
Patient engagement is a critical component at every stage of the health care ecosystem, from drug development to care delivery.Read Report
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Defining and Demonstrating the Value of Patient Engagement in Medtech Research and Product Development
In 2022, FasterCures published a report titled The Current Landscape of the Science of Patient Input, which examined the progress of patient engagement (PE) in biomedical research and identified ways to overcome ongoing challenges. Building...Read Report
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The Current Landscape of the Science of Patient Input
In the last decade, FasterCures and many stakeholders across the biomedical research ecosystem have driven initiatives to ensure that patients’ perspectives and input are appropriately represented across the product-development continuum...Read Report
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Advancing Models of Patient Engagement: Patient Organizations as Research and Data Partners
FasterCures, alongside other patient-focused advocacy organizations, has long worked with stakeholders such as product developers and regulators to define and implement the “how to” of patient engagement. This series, “Advancing Models of...Read Report
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Patient-Perspective Value Framework (PPVF)
Skyrocketing health-care costs have driven the latest wave of health-care transformation, shifting the system from a fee-for-service model to value-based care. This shift has sparked increased efforts to determine how to measure value. For...Read ReportSkyrocketing health-care costs have driven the latest wave of health-care transformation, shifting the system from a fee-for-service model to value-based care. This shift has sparked increased efforts...
Related Event Sessions and Webinars
What's Trending in MedTech?
This panel will explore a range of emerging issues in medtech (medical device, diagnostics, and digital health).
Beyond Checkboxes: Elevating Diversity and Representativeness in Patient Engagement
The gold standard for obtaining patient input for biomedical research once was ensuring a representative sample of the population with the disease.
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: ROI in Patient Engagement
Many medical manufacturers perceive the value of incorporating patients’ experiences and outcomes in R&D processes as a way to align research efforts with patients’ needs.
Making the Business Case for Patient Engagement
This session will open with remarks by Kasey Altman, Founder, Kasey Altman Research Fund, followed by a panel discussion on Making the Case for Patient Engagement.
What's Next for Patient Engagement
This session will open with a Time=Lives Talk by Sandra Abrevaya and Brian Wallach, Co-Founders of I AM ALS, followed by a panel discussion on Policymaking as a Driver of Progress.
Recent efforts to engage US patients in biomedical research have been bolstered by policymakers and congressional action.