Chris Margono

…itutions. Data from everyday activities also provide valuable information about a patient’s health. Regardless of where the data is generated, institutions usually collect data to meet an operational need rather than to power analytics. As a result, data is fragmented (and sometimes duplicated) across many institutions and data capture systems.

…ppropriately marketed a drug, encouraging physicians to prescribe it to patients who don’t need it. When this happens, the government should prosecute and punish companies, but it’s inappropriate to cast suspicion on every doctor-patient interaction that results in a prescription for a high-priced drug and then, via cost-sharing, coerce patients into second-guessing their physicians. Many companies have programs to provide free drug to patients without insurance. And yet, many pati…

The tactics companies employ to try to make sure that patients can afford their share of the cost of a drug, such as co-pay assistance, are sometimes portrayed as bribes that companies pay patients to take their medications. Payers may worry that a pharmaceutical company has inappropriately marketed a drug, encouraging phy…