ICER Comes Under Renewed Scrutiny

As we enter a new and exciting era of medicine, there is an important question we need to answer: What if we could measure the efficacy of a medicine, and more broadly, the value a specific medicine will have on patients and society as a whole? To find an answer, efforts like the Innovation Value Initiative (IVI) are underway to develop value-assessment frameworks aimed to assess the worth of pharmaceuticals and other technologies. And as we are learning, not all value assessments are created eq