Brian O'Rourke (@orourke_b) 's Twitter Profile
Brian O'Rourke

@orourke_b

Retired Health Care Executive. ISPOR President 2023-24. Veteran. Colonel Commandant of the Royal Cdn Medical Svc. Former President & CEO of CADTH. Bruins fan.

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Dark day for FDA. Approving a drug on the basis of post-hoc analysis of a failed trial, in the context of a 2nd failed trial, a worrisome safety signal, and an exorbitant price. Promoting false hope for Alzheimer’s is not in the best interest of patients nytimes.com/2021/06/07/hea…

CDA-AMC (@cda_amc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

‼️ #CADTHSymp: Now Accepting Call for Abstracts Relevant topics: - Uncertainty in #HealthPolicy and #HealthCare delivery - Unconscious bias in health research - Real-world evidence #RWE - Drugs #RareDiseases ++ Submission Deadline: June 22 2021 cadth.info/3puTDpE #HTA

‼️ #CADTHSymp: Now Accepting Call for Abstracts

Relevant topics: 
- Uncertainty in #HealthPolicy and #HealthCare delivery
- Unconscious bias in health research
- Real-world evidence #RWE
- Drugs #RareDiseases
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Submission Deadline: June 22 2021 
cadth.info/3puTDpE
#HTA
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Announcing the release of the INAHTA Position Statement on Patient Involvement ! This statement reflects INAHTA members’ views on the role of patient involvement in #HTA. View full statement here: bit.ly/3cS5EjQ #patientinvolvement

Announcing the release of the INAHTA Position Statement on Patient Involvement ! This statement reflects INAHTA members’ views on the role of patient involvement in #HTA. View full statement here: bit.ly/3cS5EjQ #patientinvolvement
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INAHTA and HTAi have renewed their Memoranda of Understanding, continuing a long & valuable relationship. The MOU, originally signed in 2008, was renewed in 2021 ensuring that MOU activities are ready for the future of HTA. Thank you HTAi, for being a great MOU partner!

INAHTA and <a href="/HTAiOrg/">HTAi</a> have renewed their Memoranda of Understanding, continuing a long &amp; valuable relationship.  The MOU, originally signed in 2008, was renewed in 2021 ensuring that MOU activities are ready for the future of HTA.  Thank you HTAi, for being a great MOU partner!
ISPOR (@ispororg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ISPOR is thinking about many things, states Nancy Berg, including: Effectively communicating the value of #HEOR. Supporting #payers & decision makers. Digital transformation of #healthcare. Aligning HEOR and #technology. And more! #ISPOREurope

ISPOR is thinking about many things, states <a href="/NbergBerg/">Nancy Berg</a>, including: Effectively communicating the value of #HEOR. Supporting #payers &amp; decision makers. Digital transformation of #healthcare. Aligning HEOR and #technology. And more! #ISPOREurope
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Up at 5:00 AM to listen to the opening plenary of #ISPOREurope Looking forward to hearing from moderator Dr. Guido Rasi and the panelists.

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Opening plenary at #ISPOREurope Dr. Jo De Cock from INAMI Belgium describing a multi-stakeholder, international payer led initiative called RWE4Decisions. A key point mentioned by Dr. De Cock is that Outcomes-based MEAs should contain a clear RWE generation plan. ISPOR

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Plenary 1: Rui Santos Ivo of INFARMED, I. P. discusses an integrated approach and areas of action in scientific and regulatory advice including promoting timely access to medicines that introduce added value at a fair price, sustainable to NHS. #ISPOREurope #HTA

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During the opening plenary at #ISPOREurope Dr. Hans-Georg Eichler stated that drugs with a small effect size and a small target population will have unavoidable uncertainty and that conventional HTA approaches will not be feasible. ISPOR

nance devlin (@nancydevlin1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hey, fellow ISPOR members! It’s time to vote for your next president! Here’s a little video message from me about this election & videos from each of our two brilliant candidates: @jasminepwu and Brian O'Rourke ⬇️ ispor.org/about/our-lead… The ballot is now open, so VOTE!!🗳️

Hey, fellow <a href="/ISPORorg/">ISPOR</a> members! It’s time to vote for your next president! Here’s a little video message from me about this election &amp; videos from each of our two brilliant candidates: @jasminepwu and <a href="/ORourke_B/">Brian O'Rourke</a>
⬇️
ispor.org/about/our-lead… 
The ballot is now open, so VOTE!!🗳️
INAHTA (@inahta_network) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Announcing the release of the INAHTA Position Statement on Disruptive Technologies! This statement reflects members’ views on the concept of disruptive technologies – a topic of significant interest amongst the INAHTA membership. View full statement here: bit.ly/3cS5EjQ

Announcing the release of the INAHTA Position Statement on Disruptive Technologies! This statement reflects members’ views on the concept of disruptive technologies – a topic of significant interest amongst the INAHTA membership. View full statement here: bit.ly/3cS5EjQ
Military Personnel Command (@milperscom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s the 71st annual CMHA Mental Health Week! Please read this important message from the CAF Surgeon General: canada.ca/en/department-… Also, keep your eyes on the @CFHSvcs account for content throughout the week. #CMHW2022 #GetReal #MentalHealth #WellBeing

It’s the 71st annual CMHA Mental Health Week!

Please read this important message from the CAF Surgeon General: canada.ca/en/department-…

Also, keep your eyes on the @CFHSvcs account for content throughout the week.

#CMHW2022 #GetReal #MentalHealth #WellBeing
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Thank you to all of the participants of the 2022 ISPOR Health Technology Assessment Roundtable - Europe for an engaging and fruitful dialogue! Special thanks to the Chairs for their exceptional leadership and the speakers for their insightful presentations. #ISPOREurope #HTA

Thank you to all of the participants of the 2022 ISPOR Health Technology Assessment Roundtable - Europe for an engaging and fruitful dialogue! Special thanks to the Chairs for their exceptional leadership and the speakers for their insightful presentations. #ISPOREurope #HTA
Brian O'Rourke (@orourke_b) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Second plenary at #ISPOREurope is focused on real world use of patient-centred research, with a description of the Darwin EU initiative from the EU Medicines Agency Many questions arise with Darwin, including whether it will be used to support both regulatory and reimbursement decisions.

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Atttending the Women in HEOR session at #ISPOREurope Very proud to wear my ribbon signifying me as a Cool Guy Ally to Women in HEOR.

Kelly Lenahan (@kellyahan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the latest ISPORJournals Value & Outcomes Spotlight Brian O'Rourke & I talk about the 2022 ISPOR Payer Summit & report on key findings Big thanks to Carole Longson, Peter Neumann, Iga Lipska MD PhD MPH, & Alan Balch for their presentations #HTA #Payers #PBMs ispor.org/publications/j…

Brian O'Rourke (@orourke_b) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very pleased to be representing ISPOR at the @ICHOM2023 conference in Barcelona. 650 delegates from 46 countries attending the conference to share and learn about the important work being done by ICHOM in developing core outcome sets.