Health and Pharma Informatics lead presents an innovative approach to improving healthcare outcomes

Christopher Wheeler, the lead for NTELX’s Health Care and Pharma practice, presented a major concept poster at the 16th Annual Meeting for the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research held in Baltimore, MD, May 21-25, 2011. The poster was titled “An Outcomes Profile Registry for Establishing a Baseline Matrix in Comparative Effectiveness Studies in Predictive Pharmacology.”

“The mission of ISPOR is to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and fairness of health care resource use to improve health.”
Presenter Chris Wheeler commented “ISPOR’s mission to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and fairness of health care resources to improve health complements NTELX’s mission and goals in the Healthcare and Pharma space well. Participation in ISPOR is critical to NTELX’s efforts to market its predictive analytical capabilities in the outcomes arena.”

About NTELX

NTELX, Inc. based out of Tysons Corner, VA develops practical decision-analytics solutions for clients in a wide-range of industries, including Health Care and Pharma. Mr. Wheeler leads NTELX’s Healthcare and Pharma practice and NTELX’s efforts in that space. The company is currently developing an analytics-based personalized medicine initiative in the clinical and pharmaceutical arenas. One of the major efforts involves developing a predictive analytical framework for analyzing outcomes profiles to be used as benchmarks in comparing desired outcomes to predict appropriate therapies in delivering personalized healthcare and support patient segmentation models in clinical trial design.

About ISPOR

ISPOR is widely accepted and recognized as the authority for outcomes research and its use in health care decisions towards improved health. The organization’s influence extends to outcomes researchers, health technology developers and assessors, regulators, health economists, health care policy makers, payers, providers, patients, populations, and society as a whole. ISPOR has over 10,400 members including 5,900 active members from 92 countries 4,500 members from regional chapters and holds three global meetings annually.