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Recent Work
- Counterfeit Medicines This work, undertaken for the international pharmaceutical industry, has included developing a method to deal with rogue traders of counterfeit medicines, by developing the "pharmaceutical safety chain". A book on counterfeit medicines in currently being finalised.
- Predictive Health This project for the English Department of Health was the first policy-oriented examination of the impact of predictive modelling and artificial intelligence on healthcare.
- Benchmarking 4th Hurdle Systems The performance of medicines regulators came under scrutiny in this work, conducted for industry and involving detailed examination of the 4th hurdle systems of 8 OECD countries. This work has been reported in the health technology assessment literature.
- Electronic Prescribing With the rising interest in ICT in healthcare, this work for the English Department of Health looked at the social and likely implications of the increased use of electronic intermediaries in the prescribing supply chain.
- Internet and Health This involved working with an expert committee of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France. The result was Recommendation (2004)17 on new media and patients, issued by the Council..
- Digital Interactive Television Policy research on emerging technologies for the English Department of Health led to a significant examination of the potential to exploit interactive technologies to deliver information and health services into people's homes through the television. A key result was the establishment of a digital health service available to people in their homes through their television sets.
Additional projects: please enquire for details
- Primary care commissioning and new market entrants into the NHS, England, 2004.
- Advised a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company on its global e-business strategy.
- Advised an FT100 company on internet pharmacies.
- Provided regulatory advice on e-procurement and health care value chains.
- Regulatory and policy study of the structure of the European biotechnology industry for a Fortune 100 health sector company.
- Regulatory study for Japanese investment company on the success factors of the UK’s Private Finance Initiative, including ways to structure successful public/private partnerships.
Recent publications and reports
- John Hutton, Clare
McGrath, Jean-Marc Frybourg, Mike Tremblay, Edward Bramley-Harker
& Christopher Henshall, Framework for describing and
classifying decision-making systems using technology assessment to
determine the reimbursement of health technologies (fourth hurdle
systems), International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health
Care, Volume 22, Issue 01, January 2006, pp 10-18. [international
benchmarking of 4th hurdle systems]
- Rodney Elgie, June
Crown & Michael Tremblay, A long life - and all of it healthy:
the ideal of healthy ageing in Europe, Eurohealth 11 (4-2005)15-21.
[policy for healthy ageing]
- J. Nolte with M.
Tremblay, Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Primary Health
Care in Canada, The Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in
Primary Health Care Initiative, Conference Board of Canada, 2005.
[primary health care reform]
- Predictive Health,
Department of Health, UK, 2005.[predictive modelling and artificial
intelligence in healthcare]
- Thinking beyond
technology: finding the e-health winners, Submission to the House of
Commons Health Committee on the use of new medical technologies within
the NHS, January 2005. United Kingdom. [health technology]
- M. Tremblay (lead author), Report of the Expert Committee: Patients and the Internet, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, 2002. [led to Council of Europe Recommendation Rec(2004)17 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the impact of information technologies on health care - the patient and Internet Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 15 December 2004 at the 909th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)]
- M. Tremblay &
S. Guy, Releasing Value, Pharmaceutical Marketing 16(3-2004,
August)26-28. [knowledge value chain]
- The Social Implications
of Electronic Prescribing, UK Department of Health, 2004.
- The next step to NHS
reform: the NHS Foundation, British Journal of Healthcare Management,
10(4, 2004)118-120. [establishing a charitable foundation to replace
the role of government in health care innovation funding]
- Democracy and
Governance: Submission to the House of Commons Health Committee on
Foundation Trusts, January 2003. (UK) [governance of independent
hospitals]
- E-procurement and
health in Europe, Eurohealth 6(4-2000)35-37. [health supply chain in
Europe]
- Health on the web,
Eurohealth 6(3-2000)4-16 (guest editor). [e-health]
- Exploding health care myths - the real threats to public health. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 5(3-1999)89-91. [public health and health policy]
Recent presentations
- Finding Common Ground:
The Perils of International Drug Counterfeiting, Centre for the New
Europe, Brussels, 2006.
- Finding Common Ground:
Solving the problem of trade in counterfeit medicines, 21st Century
Healthcare Terrorism: the perils of international drug counterfeiting,
Washington DC, 2005.
- The impact on private
health insurance of public sector health reform. Insurance Cover
Conference, London, 2004.
- Policy Issues in
Chronic Disease Management, Department of Health, UK, 2004.
- Healthcare value chains, Wholesale and Distribution in European Pharmaceuticals Conference, London 2003.
- European cross-border health, Department of Health, UK, 2003.
- The citizen is the real Minister of Health, Nortelemed Conference, Norway, 2002.
- European health policy, INSEAD, France, 1999.
- European health policy following Decker and Kohll, INSEAD, Granada, Spain, 1998.
- Building partnerships with government, Chairman, Conference on Exporting Managed Care to Europe, Washington, D.C., 1997.
- Governance of independent hospitals, Spain, 1994.