The RWD & RWE Podcast
*** Join our weekly Real-World Wednesdays (RWW) Clubhouse room every Wed @ 11am Eastern US Time*** All things related to the collection, creation & use of Real-World Data (RWD) in generating Real-World Evidence (RWE) for clinical research, drug development, medical devices, value access and other activities for BioPharma and the Life Sciences! Real-World Data (RWD): data relating to a person’s health status or well-being, or the care received by a person, as collected from real-world settings (as opposed to the controlled clinical trial setting) [aka observational data, healthcare data, etc.] Real-World Evidence (RWE): the appropriate analysis of RWD Reliable RWD + Appropriate Analysis = Meaningful RWE
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Episodes
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
28 June 2023: Conversation with Dan O'Connor, Managing Partner at Contour Ridge – We had an interactive conversation on the RWD/RWE market, trends, and future.
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
21 June 2023: Conversation with AI entrepreneur, Aaron Leibtag, CEO of Pentavere.ai – We discussed AI based approaches to clinical care and research patient selection, including a great foundation on what NLP is and how it is evolving.
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
14 June 2023: Conversation with Tom Dougherty MBA, Director of RWE Partnerships & Innovation at Pfizer – We discussed challenges navigating the RWD market space and characteristics of the ideal RWD partner; as well as driving innovation within a large life sciences company.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
07 June 2023: Conversation with serial entrepreneurs Keith & Kevin Kallmes (Nested Knowledge, Marblehead Medical, Superior Medical Experts) – We discussed a non-technical, exploratory conversation about the use of AI to establish a unified protocol supporting evidence synthesis in global Health Technology Assessment (HTA) regulatory submissions.
References during the discussion:
- https://www.eunethta.eu/
- https://about.nested-knowledge.com/2023/01/18/can-chatgpt-do-your-next-systematic-review/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nested-knowledge_how-is-nested-knowledge-deploying-ai-today-activity-7055245807561687040-TglG
From the live chat:
[00:21] Madhusudan Kabra: SLR - clinical, economic, utility values etc. in a embase etc.
[00:22] Stu McCully: The requirements of EUnetHTA will be replaced by the EU Health Technology Assessment Regulation in May 2025
[00:22] David Thompson: And it's pronounced yoo-NET-uh
[00:29] Stu McCully: ChatGPT - totally agreement with Kevin’s concerns about its limitations
[00:40] Charlie Barr: Would add “priorities” and “silos” to “urgency” as reasons why the ideal global dossier isn’t always created at the beginning of HTA preparation process
[00:42] Madhusudan Kabra: There are auto- SLR options available - DistllerSR etc. what you are saying Kevin is the next level in this evolution as to what does it make me understand from this data? Is this correct?
Friday May 26, 2023
Friday May 26, 2023
24 May 2023: 100th RWW: Conversation with David Thompson PhD, RWE thought-leader – We discussed his reflections on the market for RWD and RWE services, how it is simultaneously crowded and highly fragmented; the influence of regulatory agencies on RWE generation, both pro & con; the confluence of AI and RWE, and how these might combine to radically alter medical decision making at the point of care.
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
17 May 2023: Conversation with Leanne Larson, MHA, Principal at ZS Associates – We discussed the future of RWE - what will the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and FDA guidances on drug development mean for RWE?
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
10 May 2023: We’re at ISPOR and we discussed interesting things we saw/heard/learned. ISPOR attendees joined the discussion and provided their thoughts/insights
Sunday May 07, 2023
Sunday May 07, 2023
03 May 2023: Conversation with David Lindsay, MD, PhD, CEO of Oncora Medical – We discussed the use of public health real-world data and associated RWE use cases.
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
26 April 2023: Conversation with Andrea Thoumi MPP MSc and Kamaria Kaalund of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy – We discussed the use of real-world data to inform community-engagement, diversity and inclusiveness across race and ethnicity.
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
19 April 2023: Conversation with Eirini Schlosser, Founder & CEO at Dyania Health – We discussed large language models (LLMs) — what are they, how are they used, what context is needed, availability, deployment — and the ROI of NLP turn healthcare inefficiencies into redundancies